Today The Guardian Newspaper here in the UK has announced a new version of their popular iPhone application.
It was originally thought they were waiting for subscription support to arrive from Apple in iOS but it looks like they have decided to push on without this.
So whats new in version 2?
• Faster, automatic updates for our live news and sport blogs – no need to refresh
• A new football scores service with free goal alerts by team and match for the main UK leagues and European competitions
• Our award-winning video content is included for the first time, and looks great whether you’re connected via 3G or Wi-Fi
• You’ll see reader comments below articles that are open to them; we’ll be adding in the ability to add comments via the app as soon as we can
• A brand new homepage design – look out for the multimedia carousel – and a new treatment for live blogs
• A new way to view the stories trending across guardian.co.uk and social media (otherwise known as Zeitgeist on our website)
Of course, all that comes on top of the features from the original app, such as offline reading, front page personalisation, retina display graphics and the ability to easily save articles and sections as favourites or share content via email, Facebook or Twitter.
As a long term user of their version 1 app I’m definitely looking forward to this, the features it includes and will be downloading it straight away
Read more about it on the Guardian Technology Blog.
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