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Google Rolls Out Mobile-Formatted Google News for iPhone

Thursday November 19, 2009 12:33 pm PST by Eric Slivka

Google today announced that it has rolled out mobile-formatted Google News pages for iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre users. The feature complements similar existing pages for Blackberry, Windows Mobile, and S60 platforms.

This new version provides the same richness and personalization on your phone as Google News provides on desktop. Our new homepage displays more stories, sources, and images while keeping a familiar look and feel. Also, you can now reach your favorite sections, discover new ones, find articles and play videos in fewer clicks. If you are an existing Google News reader on desktop, you will find that all of your personalizations are honored in this mobile version too.

Users can visit the new mobile-formatted site simply by browsing to the regular Google News site at http://news.google.com using their iPhone.
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irmongoose
Posted: 29 months ago
I did enjoy the simplicity of the previous mobile site, but I very much like being able to customize sections. Looks like a winner.



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macduke
Posted: 29 months ago
I noticed yesterday that they flipped the switch on this. So far I kinda miss the old interface, which was less cluttered.
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crisss1205
Posted: 29 months ago

I noticed yesterday that they flipped the switch on this. So far I kinda miss the old interface, which was less cluttered.


I don't like the new user interface either, I used to visit
http://www.google.com/m/news but that doesn't work anymore and it still directs me to the new site.
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happydude
Posted: 29 months ago
i'd rather they just create news app rather than reformat web pages.

and create a gchat app while they're at it.
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websyndicate
Posted: 29 months ago
This a great step forward in web apps. I really like that we get revisions often and without question from apple. BTW where is google voice app cant wait to see that. Good job on pushing web2.0 google
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ruinfx
Posted: 29 months ago

i'd rather they just create news app rather than reformat web pages.

and create a gchat app while they're at it.


i dont think google is making any more apps for iphone that have to go through the app store after the rejections apple handed out.
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iphones4evry1
Posted: 29 months ago
Excellent! I use news.google.com as my primary news source on my PC
(I used to use Yahoo, and I still do sometimes, but I really like Google News).
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DaveGee
Posted: 29 months ago

i'd rather they just create news app rather than reformat web pages.

and create a gchat app while they're at it.


i dont think google is making any more apps for iphone that have to go through the app store after the rejections apple handed out.


What ruinfx said...

Could anyone blame them? Google apps will simply not be approved until such a time that Apple gets a good HARD slap in the face telling them to shape up and fly right! Unfortunately we have too many people saying WHO CARES we have 100,000 other apps to choose from. Maybe so but given a good percentage of those 100k apps border on crapware.... I'd gladly trade +50,000 apps for just one well written app from a developer such as Google.
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alent1234
Posted: 29 months ago
yawn

i use the free version of MobileRSS to get to Google Reader. i have my Google News RSS feeds in Google Reader and the app lets me read them offline while on the train to work.

i leave it on all night to pull my rss feeds into my iphone

Google is in the clouds with this only the website data access thing.
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alent1234
Posted: 29 months ago

What ruinfx said...

Could anyone blame them? Google apps will simply not be approved until such a time that Apple gets a good HARD slap in the face telling them to shape up and fly right! Unfortunately we have too many people saying WHO CARES we have 100,000 other apps to choose from. Maybe so but given a good percentage of those 100k apps border on crapware.... I'd gladly trade +50,000 apps for just one well written app from a developer such as Google.


one well written app from Google? keep dreaming

i can't seem to change the column sizes on the google reader news site to see more of the feed name and make the data area smaller
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