CNN Breaking US & World News Android App Review
CNN Breaking US & World News for Android is the official CNN application for Android phones! It features both international and domestic news including: written articles on news from around the world, CNN Podcasts and Audio News Updates, CNN Live Video news reports, and iReports. It also features an excellent minimalistic interface and a widget to match it. CNN Breaking US & World News for Android is available for free download from Google Play.
Features
In CNN for Android app, after clicking on a category of news a list of news feeds will put on view beneath the news heading. Each article will show a picture all along with the article heading so that you can effortlessly identify articles of concern. The full news articles are displayed in the same minimalistic fashion. Images are displayed sparingly all through the article with white text for the body of the article with a black background making it much easier to read. Articles are also updated every so often when new information is brought up on an article that is already posted. Once of the advantages of digital news is that it allows faster delivery and real time news updates for the reader, and CNN takes full advantage of this with their Android application.
CNN Breaking US & World News for Android also features the iReport feature. This allows ordinary people to upload their own stories to CNN.com. There are three headings under iReport: Featured, Assignments, and Submit. Featured iReports are reports that have been submitted by users and have been approved to be published by CNN.com. Assignments are writing assignments from CNN for those looking to submit stories through iReport. In this area of the application CNN asks the user to provide a story or footage of an event that is relevant and receiving a lot of attention in today’s news. The next exciting feature for CNN for Android is CNN Radio. CNN Radio allows you to listen to CNN Podcasts on the go, hourly news updates, CNN interviews, stories, and much more. The app also features CNN Video which features live video news streams from across the globe. Finally, the submit feature is the portion of iReports where the user is able to upload their own story to CNN for review and publication.
Conclusion
CNN Breaking US & World News for Android is one of the largest news distributors in the world and the Android application does an excellent job keeping you up to date with both international and domestic news. It offers news articles under a range of headings. This allows you to go after the news that is in particular pertinent to you.
Category: Free Android Apps
