A while back we brought you news that Flipboard, the social news reader app, was coming to Android as a short-term Galaxy S3 exclusive. The app was quickly hacked out of Samsung’s flagship, but now it’s arrived on the Play Store officially. The problem? It’s not for tablets. Still, there are other options… Read more
Nokia’s just unveiled its assault on the world of mobile phone eReading. Nokia Reading, which launches this week around the UK and Europe will let specific Windows Phone handsets access a ream of classic and new books, but it’s a future update that’s got us excited. Ready for Flipboard on your Lumia? Read more
One of the more minor facets of news that came out of the Samsung Galaxy S3 launch last week was that Flipboard – the app that turns your social networks into a digital magazine – is a Galaxy S3 exclusive. Or is it? The app has just leaked out online, and here’s how to get it… Read more
The iPad 2 has hit the UK and we’ve got a brand new list of great apps for you. Here’s our big of the 5 best iPad 2 apps. What does that mean? The iPad 2 apps below were all created specifically for the iPad 2 or have had iPad 2 specific updates to take advantage of the new features in Apple’s latest tablet. Read on for our inaugural best iPad 2 apps list with games, news, music and video all covered…
It’s just about time for lunch here at Electricpig towers, and we’re serving up a feast of the morning’s tech news to get you through the rest of the day. Power down and tune in to the round up of Thursday morning’s top tech titbits and some Electricpig recommendations.
News.me, a social news iPad app from the New York Times, is on the way and has been revealed to Techcrunch in a series of screen shots. It looks like it’ll be a direct rival for The Daily iPad newspaper coming from News Corp and pretty ace in its own right. It also reminds us of Flipboard.
News.me links your Twitter account to the app and gives you the ability to view your friends’ individual news streams or combine them into a custom newspaper. You can share articles from the app via Facebook, Twitter or email and save stories to Instapaper. The app probably won’t be free but it will access the premium content from the New York Times. No news yet on when the News.me will break cover but we’ll grab it when it does.
Out TBC | £TBC | New York Times (via Techcrunch)
The Flipboard iPad app caused quite a storm when it was released earlier this year and has even nabbed Apple’s approval as App of the Year for 2010. Now the Flipboard iPad app has had a serious upgrade too with the addition of Google Reader support, Flickr integration and the ability to fling status updates, photos and Flipboard pages straight from the app to Twitter and Facebook. Flipboard says: “Google Reader was by far our most requested feature.” Google Reader entries are shown in Flipboard the same way as links shared via Twitter and Facebook with a headline and a brief summary plus a relevant photo. You can download the latest version of the Flipboard iPad app from the iTunes App Store now.
