BlackBerry News now available for BlackBerry PlayBook

by Mac Jadalhack

9 June 2011 No Comment

It looks like RIM has officially launched BlackBerry News v1.0 for the BlackBerry Playbook. If you think about it, the tablet really needed a native RSS feed reader. The advantage? If you use BlackBerry News on your BlackBerry smartphone, it makes life easier using your PlayBook with it as well since it requires nothing but the sign-in of your BlackBerry ID. So by doing so you’ll have access to all of your saved RSS feeds.

The cool part of this application is that it uses swipe gestures your PlayBook is able to handle. Here’s a few:
Touching the “News Library” button feeds to easily find and add new feeds
Using the BlackBerry PlayBook bezel drop-down gesture from the “My News” home screen pulls up the options menu to update content, or edit and delete any subscriptions
Selecting a subscription provides an abbreviated summary view of articles within that news feed, allowing for quick scanning of content
Swiping left on the tablet screen turns the page

You can grab it free at BlackBerry App World for both your BlackBerry smartphone and BlackBerry PlayBook keeping your feeds organized. The beauty about that is it recognizes your BlackBerry ID as soon as you download and open, no prompt required!