CNN Interactive News App for iPhone with iReport
9/30/2009 09:56:00 PM - 0 comments
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Features: CNN Interactive News App
The CNN iPhone app has several advanced features than its web and mobile applications. In short, the CNN app features
- Well-designed live breaking news video and archived stories in short text, long text, video, and photo formats.
- Technology to capture and submit user-generated photos and (on the iPhone 3GS) videos for CNN iReport.
- Personalization and location tools
- Push notification
- The app is also supported by advertisements. Here the users can click on an ad, visit a sponsor's site, and make a quick return to their location in the app for the continued experience - reading news or watching video.
- The app also allows you to search news and content by following specific keywords. This is possible only on the iPhone app and not on the website CNN.com; thereby, saving time.
- All stories related to your keywords are stored in the iPhone’s memory cache and appear in the MyCNN section. Moreover, the app allows you to automatically save stories of interest by tagging them one-by-one in a special section for offline reading.
- CNN iPhone app is used exclusively to provide content from CNN.com. This app will always provide you news headlines in real time and will include similar, configurable breaking news alerts as in mobile services.
- Reports from reliable sources reveal that Apple had presented CNN.com with bandwidth guidelines for its videos. You can see that the video portion of the app call for lots of wireless bandwidth, which can be an expensive proposition for carriers (and users without unlimited data plans).
- CNN iPhone app features rich and enhanced imagery and video than CNN's mobile WAP site. The new iPhone app is dominated by video and enhanced by text in comparison to CNN's mobile site, which is dominated by text and enhanced by video.
- The app offers a live stream from CNN Live from which you can share content using e-mail, text message or social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc.
How it works
- The CNN iPhone app works with the help of an across-and-down navigation system. This makes for easy readability – as you can easily look over a large number of stories, (each marked by two bullet points of text and an image).
- The application also calls for a revolution in the way readers browse articles. Here the iPhone users can choose a category; say, United Kingdom or World news—and then see a lineup of about 10 stories. If you click say the first story, the app will display the story along with an image and video link. You can now navigate left or right, and track stories of your choice.
- If any of the stories interest you, the app allows you to probe deeper by tapping through to a video or text article.
- You can flip the iPhone sideways to bring up a tiled interface (now in landscape mode) the app will display the same array of articles using Cover Flow-like animation. You may also swipe a finger left or right across the screen scrolls between stories.
Become a CNN iReporter
Do you take interest in breaking news amongst your friends and colleagues? Well, you can definitely transform your interest into a profession by becoming CNN iReporter, courtesy CNN iPhone app. The app allows users to not only download, but also upload news. It is to encourage mobile reporting from the ground on any location where you as send iReport by recording it on the move. You can then edit it with the iPhone’s inbuilt video software (or capture footage from within the CNN app itself) and then upload it to CNN.com from the field.
Then, the content has to go through the selection process on the back-end, where editors may transcribe on certain ones before approval and on selection; they'll show up as vetted in iReport. Analysts are weighing CNN’s viability in involving eminent itinerant reporters for the service by linking it up with remote networks. This will facilitate iReporters to upload breaking news videos once to CNN and syndicate from there.
Pricing
The CNN app costs $1.99 and is available in the App Store. This app although more expensive than the free mobile web version of CNN.com and other free alternatives, proves its worth by exploiting a wide range of the iPhone’s latest features.
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