Free, updated Independent iPhone news app

Wednesday, 26 August 2009

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The new Independent iPhone app

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The Independent has upgraded its free iPhone app to better enable users to read the latest news and opinion from the Independent while on the move.

Available from the iPhone app store here, the application offers readers the chance to read articles from The Independent both on and off-line. Once launched the App automatically downloads all the articles and images for offline reading, talking around a minute on a Wi-Fi connection and a few minutes on a standard mobile connection, making it possible to read the latest Independent news even when without mobile reception. Articles can be read while the download continues.

The new app delivers 12 categories of articles, including World and UK news, Sport, Business, Football, Opinion, People, Politics, Technology, Arts and Entertainment and Environment.

The first version, while extremely successful, gave rise to a number of user comments which have now been addressed:

There’s a new ‘mark all as read button’ so that users can mark all the stories in a caregory as read. The familiar ‘unread’ marker on stories won’t then appear until the next refresh of content.

- or you can go to settings and turn the unread button off

- you can hide app icon badges

- You can set the app so that all unread stories expire after one day

The new app delivers 12 categories of articles, including World and UK news, Sport, Business, Football, Opinion, People, Politics, Technology, Arts and Entertainment and Environment.

Jimmy Leach, editorial director for digital said, “The changes are in response to user requests where many were slightly irritated by the slightly nagging quality of the unread stories’ Missing Ink Studios have been working very hard to refine an already excellent app, and Apple’s approval of the update means an even more seamless service for our iPhone users.”

Download the application free here

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LiveJournal

ajlennon wrote:

Tuesday, 1 September 2009 at 04:06 pm (UTC)

Thanks for this - any chance you could add LiveJournal support for comments please?

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Amazing

bigjohnnybob wrote:

Sunday, 27 September 2009 at 05:46 pm (UTC)

Just bought an iPod Touch and this brilliant app is worth the cost of it alone. Other major news sites seem not to enable downloading of the entire content on internet connection to enable offline reading but this one does. Beautifully designed too. By far the best app out there.

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Please remove the article count

gaffer13 wrote:

Sunday, 8 November 2009 at 10:47 pm (UTC)

Nice app but I've removed it from my iPhone because of the article count, which is deeply annoying. None of the other news apps have it, and for a good reason. It's annoying.

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Watch out for the adverts!!

bvh2009 wrote:

Thursday, 17 December 2009 at 08:54 pm (UTC)

Make sure you never tap the adds on this app. Though only a small amount, I was charged a few pounds for tapping an add which then automatically opened up my phone and made an outgoing call to this adds service. By the time I realized what had happened (a few seconds) I quickly hung up. No sooner had I hung up I received a text which showed I had spent 2 pounds on a 3 second phone. Moral to the story, be careful where you place your fingers as this free app could cost you more than buying the newspaper outside the station.

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why can't we control what news we want, ie. NO crappy football shite..

rocket111 wrote:

Sunday, 3 January 2010 at 01:47 am (UTC)

Can you allow us to ignore the football bullshit? I'd rather have rubgy..but def not football.

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Great idea but...

thomaswp wrote:

Thursday, 28 January 2010 at 09:34 am (UTC)

I deleted it quickly. I would like to have access to the Indy, and don't mind ads but I deleted it because of:
1) The fact that you are reading stories in a tiny portion of the screen once the header, second header and ad are in place;
2) The inability to delete the football icon (not everyone in the World is obsessed with this sport!);
3) The silly article count (why?!)

Also I did not quickly find (is it there?) the ability to dictate which items are updated. I don't need all the football articles, or business etc.

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