The BBC today decided it would try to beat Sky News to the punch (and did) by releasing their new iPad News App.
The BBC app is beautifully designed for the iPad and works in both Portrait and Landscape mode with news index categories that can be flicked left or right to rotate through the news in that section.
You also have the ability to watch BBC News 24 live through the app.
The BBC app is an online news easer, not offline like a lot of RSS news readers, so you do need a high speed Internet connection, either 3G or WiFi (for video playback).
The BBC app is great but it does have a few teething problems that hopefully will be fixed in a future update.
Problems found
1) On initial launch I received a green screen where the news category index should appear. Power cycling the iPad will resolve this. It only happens some times in Portrait mode.
2) intermittently if I try to play the BBC News Live Feed I am greeted by a message saying streaming is not possible outside of the UK, yet I’m currently in the UK on a WiFi network. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. This might be an over capacity problem possibly.
Other than that, the news app is a great addition and well designed for the iPad! Brits just now have to wait for Sky to create an iPad app to have the news complete.
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