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Guest beepo666
Posted (edited)

Anyone tried the BBC app yet? The reason I ask is that @BBCClick reckon it only works on Gingerbread not Honeycomb. I just thought that was a bit odd.

Hard to find in the marketplace because it's saturated with look-a-like apps, however there's a link here. I can't try it as I'm on extended vacation in Asia right now and installation is restricted :-(

A screenshot would be lovely, and details about sizes if it has a widget etc. I'd love to see if this runs on Vegacomb.

Cheers :P

Edited by beepo666
Guest Dave Marchant
Posted
Anyone tried the BBC app yet? The reason I ask is that @BBCClick reckon it only works on Gingerbread not Honeycomb. I just thought that was a bit odd.

Hard to find in the marketplace because it's saturated with look-a-like apps, however there's a link here. I can't try it as I'm on extended vacation in Asia right now and installation is restricted :-(

A screenshot would be lovely, and details about sizes if it has a widget etc. I'd love to see if this runs on Vegacomb.

Cheers :P

I found it straight away in Marketplace - was top of the list searching for BBC News. Works fine on Corvus5 - Froyo. Can't do a screen shot as I am working at the moment. I wouldn't say is is anything very special, just a neat list of the news items on the BBC web site, with ability to get to all the category groups. The Widget just seems to give top headline

Guest beepo666
Posted

I was hoping for something like the Sky News app for iPad. That's really tasty.

Oh well, thanks for giving me the skinny. :P

Guest HypoTurtle
Posted
Anyone tried the BBC app yet? The reason I ask is that @BBCClick reckon it only works on Gingerbread not Honeycomb. I just thought that was a bit odd.

Hard to find in the marketplace because it's saturated with look-a-like apps, however there's a link here. I can't try it as I'm on extended vacation in Asia right now and installation is restricted :-(

A screenshot would be lovely, and details about sizes if it has a widget etc. I'd love to see if this runs on Vegacomb.

Cheers :P

Can't install it directly from the market (greyed out) due to required specs (i.e. not honeycomb) would try it if I could get an apk

Guest rferrett
Posted

It doesn't support landscape viewing which makes it pretty useless on the Vega. Is blooming ace on my desire mind!

Guest Dave Marchant
Posted
It doesn't support landscape viewing which makes it pretty useless on the Vega. Is blooming ace on my desire mind!

BBC News app works in both Landscape and Portrait on my Vega with Corvus5.

Guest Algie
Posted

Won't download with Vegacomb 1.5. Tells me it's not compatible.

Guest mudcruzr
Posted

Pretty cr*p really, more like a beta version without anyone asking for feedback!

Each category only shows nine stories (my BBC rss feeds have usually between 10 and 150 unread stories each morning)

If you read a story it's not replaced by an unread one.

There's no indication of the read/unread/updated status of any stories.

I don't think the developers know about tablets (as mentioned above) - no landscape.

The video links are very low quality.

As I said, cr*p (imvho)

- mud

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