Sunday 20 March 2011

CNN Application shown on Android Tablet

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On Thursday, CNN became one of the first company outside of Google that offer applications to Android tablets, including for Xoom Motorola has just been released.



Free application that is similar to CNN's application for the Apple iPad, a tablet market leader today. The difference is the application that users can directly send their news to CNN's iReport.

iPad not have a camera to photograph images of events in progress or video to record the news. Conversely, some Android-based tablets such as Xoom and Samsung Galaxy Tab has a camera on the front and rear.

The new application aims to carry the citizen journalism to the tablet.

"CNN Applications will expose the best dispatches from hundreds and thousands iReporters across the world, and allows them to send their own iReports and participate with us," said Louis Gump, vice president of CNN for mobile in the press release.

For now, the application is only available on Android Market in the U.S..

CNN tablet applications specifically designed to operate on Google's latest Android operating system, called "Honeycomb".CNN applications that highlight the layout, interesting layout and glance similar to the popular news applications, called Pulse.

Applications that operate in two modes - one highlighting news for the international audience and others focus on the U.S. audience, as well as news and audio updates each hour of CNN Radio.

The application was also highlighted comments from readers of CNN."Applications that include the ability of users to comment in addition to content on the screen or share stories with text and pictures via e-mail, Facebook and Twitter," said CNN's release.

"Users can also flip through the location of the headlines and pictures on the screen home screen using the image widget application that."Bloggers have noted that lack of applications that operate in the Honeycomb. Many Android phone application designed to work on the tablet, but the application was not able to walk up to the larger tablet screen.Blog VentureBeat writes that applications such as CNN which can operate on the Apple iPhone and iPad, "does not fit on the Android tablet.

"Google should really create applications that can run smoothly on tablets Android. If they are sure you want to pursue the iPad. Market tablet is the subject of war this year," wrote Dean Takahashi.

MSNBC writing tablets Android popularity rests on the application."The success of Android tablet program is measured by how many other parties that develop the application, this time we can not specify where the winner," said Wilson Rothman.

Source : http://www.antaranews.com


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