I was pleasantly surprised when I received a heads up this week that NewsBreak 2.0 has been released. It was not long ago when I posted about Windows Mobile 6, RSS feeds, and my very positive impressions of NewsBreak has the "uber-RSS reader" for Windows Mobile phones.
In addition to ageneral visual/functional clean-up, NewsBreak now has a bunch of new features that I was asking for, like:
- Podcast support - you can save those podcasts (video and audio) to your storage card automatically and partition your card for podcasts. You can also manually download podcast attachments. Awesome.
- Search for feeds on Live Search in addition to Syndic8. I find Live Search to be a reliable source of clean feed results.
- Adjust update times per feed. For example I can have Yahoo! Top Stories update every hour but update Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed once a day. Smart.
In addition it still has support for password protected feeds, home screen notifications, keyword alerts, imports OPML files and other cool stuff. Now all they need to do is add Digital Dad to their default channel list! There's a more detailed review at Clinton Fitch.
Frankly, I use this app more than any other on my phone except email. Only $7.95 - bargain.
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