Review: SBSH GoNews Touch (on sale till Jun 22)

GoNews Touch is a news reader application that aggregates the latest news from across the internet directly to your smartphone, downloading only headlines of your interest based on your personal configuration. With GoNews you can easily read the daily headlines even when offline. Featuring innovative touch-design so that you can browse through all headlines at the touch of a finger!

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QuickList:

System/OS/Device Requirements: WM5, WM6, about 800kb of free memory
Price: $14.95
Special Price: $9.95 until Jun 22
You save: $5.00 (33.44%)
Company: SBSH
Download here or grab the free trial here.

KEY FEATURES

Channels

• GoNews content is divided to channels. Each channel stores articles from a specific web-site you track
• Easily organize channels in categories according to different topics. Create any category you want without limitation and easily switch between different categories
• Channel icons are automatically displayed when updating your content

Articles

• Within each channel you will find a list of latest articles downloaded on your most recent update
• Easily see which articles were read or new articles still not read
• Supporting both RSS and full-text articles with images
• Articles list including thumbnails

Your Personal Newspaper

• Configure GoNews to track web-site you like and define the content you would like to read with GoNews
• Supports all RSS versions. Simply enter RSS stream URL to add new channels
• Supporting full-text articles with images using special templates used to parse any web-site you wish to include

Touch Designed

• Fully designed for touch navigation. Easily navigate through your channels and read articles with finger navigation only with no need to use the stylus anymore
• Featuring our Touch Tray Bar interface on all different views for complete control
• Using Touch Scrolling technology to easily scroll through the list of channels and articles

Innovation Inside

• Configure GoNews to automatically download headlines content at specific times
• Supporting all Windows Mobile 5/6 devices or higher
• Full support for all screen orientations and resolutions
• Create and download new templates that can be used to aggregate news content from any web-site

CONCLUSION

This is actually one of the better “smartphone newspapers” I’ve used. It’s very quick and easy to use and is formatted in a way to allow you to navigate through the headlines with your finger instead of a stylus, which is a bonus for me.

RATING (out of 5)