The BBC News iPhone app was announced just this morning at Mobile World Congress, but we’ve snagged the first screenshots of what it will look like already. Read on to see them!
BBC internet supremo Erik Huggers revealed the BBC News iPhone app along with a Sports app at the Mobile Entertainment keynote here in Barcelona, but now we’ve got a closer look at what to expect from the former. The BBC News iPhone app will use carousels for categories of news (Top Stories, World, Business, for example), with a breaking news ticker at the top, along with options and a button to stream BBC News live.
News posts themselves meanwhile mimic the desktop version perfectly, except this time, videos should run via the BBC News iPhone app. Landscape mode opens up more categories in a horizontal row, with leads appearing as you move across the headline/image tiles.
BBC News and Sport iPhone apps unveiled
The best part? The BBC News iPhone app will soon be moving on to tons of other platforms: we were shown a slide at the keynote that showed logos for Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, Flash, Palm (webOS presumably), Samsung (bada, we assume) and BlackBerry, so no matter your phone, you’ll soon be covered.
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