News Apps

[MangoGuy]

Hello all,

I am looking for a news app for WP8, since the loss of the BBC app there not much arround that I can find, and most of them such as the ITN one hasn't been updated in some time, does anyone know of any good ones that are availble?

Cheers
Martin

 

[Al_2]

Try Sky News (though no live tile) or The Guardian. Nokia Reading also has a news stream with live tiles, but the only news sources I can find that actually load the article in the app (rather than going to the browser) are The Guardian and Metro.co.uk.

I actually use WebApps and just pin BBC News and The Guardian Mobile site to my Start screen.

 

[pmhgeneral]

NBC news app just came out.

 

[azaright]

CNN is good

 

[deadwrong03]

news360

 

[MangoGuy]

Thanks guys i'll check them all out

 

[MangoGuy]

Was looking for one with uk news, shame there is no bbc one anymore

 

[windev]

I have Sky News installed on my phone.

 

[MKairys]

Try Weave. Has BBC, UPI, Guardian, many more.

 

[MangoGuy]

It is a shame that the cnn app doesn't have more uk news, I love the live tile in this app

 

[Coolknight1968]

It is a shame that the cnn app doesn't have more uk news, I love the live tile in this app

Fully agree.... There is also Blomberg for finance. I use the browser for most other news. And 20minuten and Blick for Swiss Local news. Swissquote is cool to keep an eye on all Stockmarkets.

 

[Rich White]

I agree the BBC app was a great feed with the regional and topic customizations.
Al Jazeerha is the best feed behind BBC for my money. Or to put it better complimented BBC well.
Bloomberg has a considerable amount of news and customizations. Best looking news app in my book once you look past the defualt Finance set up.
Fuse and Newsers are good aggregators.
Weave is OK likely the best bet for UK Customizations. I may try to import the various BBC RSS feeds into Fuse.

 

[MangoGuy]

Thanks guys, will give al jazeerha a go, have tried fuse it is a good app but I'm not to keen on the ui

 

[odin09]

I love weave but have recently switched to fuse. I love the interface on fuse.

 

[MangoGuy]

Lets just hope either the bbc or bing release an app with wp8 features

 

[Ridlah]

Russia today has three apps a news app a live stream app and an app with both the first two are kept because they perform better on windows phone 7.

 

[Crakeur]

CNN is a great app. Weave is ok too. TLDR Reader is worth a look as well.

 

[MangoGuy]

Thanks, I think I'm just going to leave it for have tried them all some have good features some don't, I am after something with a good live tile and up to date uk news

 

[MangoGuy]

Has anyone used Collector

 

[azaright]

Has anyone used Collector

yeah its brilliant for aggregating news with a flipboard like interface and social integration