The London Evening Standard today announced the launch of a new app, one of the first applications designed for the new BlackBerry® 10 OS.
Key features of the London Evening Standard app include:
- The latest News, Sport, Business, Lifestyle and Arts & Entertainment stories, updated live throughout the day
- Reading the news when you’re out of mobile or wifi coverage, using offline storage.
- The ability to share your favourite stories with your friends via BBM, Twitter, Facebook - or any other service you have installed on your phone.
The release of the app - and an app for our sister publication The Independent - coincides with the launch of the BlackBerry 10 smartphone - the fastest and most advanced BlackBerry smartphone yet.
BlackBerry 10 is a re-designed, re-engineered and re-invented BlackBerry platform that creates a powerful and unique new mobile computing experience. BlackBerry 10 gives customers a faster and smarter experience that continuously adapts to their needs. Every feature, every gesture, and every detail is designed to keep customers moving and includes advancements such as:
• Peek into the BlackBerry Hub – A new mobile computing paradigm where what matters to customers is always one swipe away
• Flow– Delivers total integration across all apps, removing the barriers between applications that slow you down
• Keyboard – Understands and adapts to customers, so they can type faster and more accurately
• BBM™ (BlackBerry® Messenger) – Allows customers to share anything with the people that matter to them in an instant
• BlackBerry® Balance™ technology – Protects what is important to customers
TheEvening Standard and Independent apps will be available to download from BlackBerry World, a unified storefront for apps, movies, music, TV shows and more. BlackBerry World has recently been updated to include apps for business users, making it easy for employees to gain access to approved, quickly-deployed company apps.
Zach Leonard, MD, Digital, The Independent, i and London Evening Standard said: “Blackberry is an important channel for our smartphone app range – and Blackberry10 raises the bar in terms of user engagement and experience in navigation, sharing, and readability. We’re thrilled to be a Blackberry10 launch partner and to extend this to our loyal users and advertisers as a best in class platform.”
