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Native NetNewsWire RSS Reader for iPhone Previewed

Tuesday June 10, 2008 1:18 pm PDT by Arnold Kim

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Arstechnica has a preview of a native version of the popular NetNewsWire RSS reader for the iPhone.

The iPhone version of NewNewsWire shares a lot of ideas and functionality with its big brother on the desktop, but Brent's tweaked the scope of the mobile version in such a way that it fits very nicely with the scope and purpose of what an iPhone application should be.

The mobile version of NetNewswire does not try to replicate all the functionality of its desktop counterpart, but focuses on the mobile "satellite" focus. Of course, read/unread states will be pushed to NewsGator which will sync with your desktop application. Brent Simmons describes targeting the application to people on-the-go who might have just a few minutes in between tasks to catch up on their feeds.

More screenshots available in the original article. Current NetNewsWire users should remember that there exists a mobile iPhone optimized version of the site that provides similar functionality at m.newsgator.com.
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longofest
Posted: 52 months ago
I love netnewswire/newsgator.

Lovin' MacRumors on the feed list :)
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avigalante
Posted: 52 months ago

I love netnewswire/newsgator.

Lovin' MacRumors on the feed list :)


Yep. MacRumors made the list - congrats!

This program looks incredibly useful on the iPhone (especially for those on the slower 2.5G EDGE connection).
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azdude
Posted: 52 months ago
Oh. Hell. Yes.

I use the mobile web version *all day long*. This will be an even nicer experience.
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Me1000
Posted: 52 months ago
This is about the only 3rd party app that I was really looking forward to!
and it looks like they are going to nail it on the head!
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TheT
Posted: 52 months ago
This is great news, I use the mobile version very frequently as well. Which reminds me of one thing:

Macrumors is the only feed I read where not the whole story is in the RSS. This is not so bad when reading news on the desktop with NNW, since you can always just command-click the headline and view the item in a new tab. But on the mobile version, it is an issue, since you always need to go back and forth to read news.

arn, is there any way this can be changed in the future?
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yetanotherdave
Posted: 52 months ago
mobile google rss reader is such an elegant solution I can't see myself wanting to use this. Oh well, sitll looks like a nice app.
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cloudnine
Posted: 52 months ago
Slightly off subject, and forgive my ignorance, but why download a separate RSS reader when there's a great one integrated in Mail? :confused:
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yetanotherdave
Posted: 52 months ago

Slightly off subject, and forgive my ignorance, but why download a separate RSS reader when there's a great one integrated in Mail? :confused:


because it's not that great, or you don't use mail.
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Vegeta-san
Posted: 52 months ago
I am going to ask a question that will show my complete ignorance here....

But what are RSS feeds? Why would I want to use this program on my iPhone? What benefit would it give me? It seems like everyone who knows about them loves them, so I'm very interested to find out what all the fuss is about.
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Vegeta-san
Posted: 52 months ago
Sorry...Double post.
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