Windows Phone App Review: Newsy

Newsy for Windows Phone

Here's an interesting news reader for your Windows Phone.Newsy is a news app that presents 2 minute videos on daily news stories that are compiled from various sources. A summary video of sorts that puts all you need to know on a electric current outcome/news item in a nice, 2 minute package. Equally the Newsy tag line reads, "multiple sources, the existent story".

Newsy Home Page

Newsy is laid out adequately simple with stories populating the Home Page that are grouped into three broad categories; recent, popular and near commented.

You lot also accept a Category Page that lets you lot scan stories from eight topics; World, U.Due south., Politics, Business, Technology, Entertainment, Science/Health, and Sports. Categories from the Home Folio or Categories Page can exist pinned to your Start Screen for easy reference. There is also a magnifying glass push button control rests at the bottom of the screen that will pull upward a key discussion search field. The selection of videos on Newsy was respectable considering the videos are made from scratch.

Newsy Video Page

From the individual video screen you have pages to view the two minute Newsy video, view any readers (or would it be viewer's) comments, and a "more than" videos page that lists boosted videos from the twenty-four hours's events. At the bottom of the video page you will see iii push controls; a transcript, share and source. The Transcript Button will pull upwardly the written text of Newsy's video. The Share Button allows yous to share videos via email or text and the Source Push button pulls links to whatsoever references used in the video.

Newsy live tile

Videos for Newsy loaded quickly and are well presented. The reporters and writers do a very good job fitting the full story into a two minute block. Add the ability to view transcripts and visit source references and you have a very attractive Windows Phone app.

All in all, Newsy is an impressive news app for your Windows Phone. In using Newsy for just a brusk time, the only proposition I would offer to the developers is to add a "home" push which will eliminate the demand to hit the back push and then much. Otherwise, information technology'due south a very dainty news source for your Windows Telephone.

Newsy is a gratis app that you can grab here at the Windows Telephone Marketplace.

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