What are your favorite new apps for iPhone? The USA Today iPhone app is great, except the news can easily be 24 hours old by the time you read it. Because of that, I’m preferring the BBC News app. It’s “real-time” and also includes audio and video updates. Other news apps by ABC, CNN, NPR, WSJ, Flipboard, and Pulse are all worth examining. But perhaps the most interesting of all is the little app, “Zite,” which “learns” your news preferences by giving thumbs-up/thumps-down to the items your reading. Over time, you create a custom set of reading preferences in which everything is relevant. These apps are mostly all free. In only one or two cases, you’ll be asked to pay a small subscription fee. Got a favorite news app of your own? Click comment — please
I use Zite a lot. You can add categories you are interested in. It does take some time to “thumbs up” the topics/posts/authors/websites you are interested in up front, but it does learn and you are able to get more news. I check it every day.
I also use the ABC, MSNBC, & CNN apps as well a couple of the local news sources.
Flipboard is mainly twitter feeds from news sources, so I don’t use it as much.
I’m glad to hear about the BBC app and will be adding it to my iPad.
Some apps work on both my Touch and iPad, some only on the iPad.
I also use Downcast (instead of iTunes) for videocasts and have daily evening and morning news download to watch (according to my time schedule).