PressReader – Now Available For Honeycomb
NewspaperDirect Releases Android Honeycomb Version of PressReader; World’s Largest Digital Newsstand Delivers 1,800+ Daily Newspapers to Latest Android Tablets.
With one free app, millions of Android users can read hundreds of full-color, full-content newspapers on their Android-based smartphone or tablet. Initial download includes seven free issues.
PressReader for Android Honeycomb is now available in the Android Market and is compatible with 3.0/3.1 Honeycomb-based tablets, such as the Asus Eee Pad Transformer, the HTC Flyer, the Motorola Xoom, and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and 10.1. A Gingerbread-specific version of PressReader is also available for Android devices running Android 2.2/2.3. Pre-installations of the app on a number of Honeycomb devices are planned for the near future.
Key Features
- Support for on-board hardware acceleration on Honeycomb-based devices
- A more immersive reading interface, customized for larger screen sizes
- Automatic daily download of user-selected titles
- High-performance navigation using thumbnails or tables of contents
- Intuitive reading experience: flip, pan, rotate and zoom articles and photos
- Support for full-graphic page views or easy-to-read text views of articles
- On-demand narration of news stories
- Sharing of articles by email or by posting on social network sites
Pricing and Availability
PressReader for Android is available as a free download from the Android Market. New customers receive seven trial issues for free. Most newspapers and magazines can be purchased for $0.99 per issue through PressDisplay.com or downloaded in conjunction with a paid PressDisplay.com subscription.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
