Google Currents
Google Currents is a social magazine app for tablet computers
and mobile phones developed by Google Inc.
Google Currents delivers beautiful magazine-like editions to
your tablet and smartphone for high speed and offline reading.
The application covers a variety of sources and offers a list
of featured content that includes Forbes, CNET, ReadWriteWeb, and
others. Google Currents immediately begins downloading the most recent
articles from these sources.
Features:
- Superb polished interface
- Headline-based news system
- Built-in browser
- Publisher editions - Publishers such as Forbes, The
Guardian,
TechCrunch, The Sun, Metro UK, PBS, Saveur, and more have produced
hundreds of editions
including in-depth articles, videos, fine photography, slideshows,
live-maps, and social streams
- Google trending editions - Google
Currents uses Google search technology to hourly build a set of
editions tracking the five most recent trending stories in categories
such as Top stories, world, entertainment, sports, science, and more.
Each story is
presented through a fresh edition of articles, videos, and pictures
- Your
favorite blogs and feeds - Instantly, turn your Google Reader
subscriptions, or any of your favorite blogs/feeds into a beautiful
edition with a magazine feel
- Each edition is available for high
speed offline reading, and provides quick-touch sharing. Google
Currents self-adapts to differently sized phones and tablets, with your
subscriptions synchronized across devices. Google Currents
- Large photo banners on tablets
- Instant online sync
- Easy to add new feeds
- Offline reading
- Scales to different screen sizes
- Background sync options
- Translation support. Google Currents translates
instantaneously into 38 languages
- Internationalization support
Verdict:
Google Currents makes reading your favorite
news site, magazines, and blogs on mobile devices a
truly pleasurable and simple
experience. The design is elegant, smart, intitutive and crisp. Whilst
the app lacks the beautiful animations offered by Flipboard, Google
Currents has a refreshing simple interface.
This is an app
that every Android user should download. Trending is an awesome
feature. We would prefer the option to
be able to source older articles.
 10/10
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