AP Mobile, 2.2 for Android Released
On January 11, the Associated Press released an update to the AP Mobile Android app. For this release, the AP Mobile team focused on including features requested by our users. AP Mobile Android users can now:
- Deactivate photos for faster download
- Customize font size on story pages
- Turn off Notifications
- View up to 10 stories per category on the front page
You can download the update directly from the Android Market and we look forward to your feedback.
Samsung Moment users experiencing problems with AP Mobile
Some users are having trouble installing AP Mobile onto Samsung Moment phones. We have identified the problem and have issued a fix. We look forward to releasing a new, compatible version in the near future and apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused. We’ll update this notice when an update is available.
AP Mobile Everywhere for Everyone
AP Mobile is now available on all devices and across all platforms!
We are excited to bring the most comprehensive and customizable news experience to you on any carrier or device you have.
GET AP Mobile on:
Android:
Simply visit the Android Market and Download AP Mobile onto your device.
BlackBerry:
Enter the App World store on your device and Download AP Mobile.
Or
Enter your phone # at www.apnews.com and we will send you a link.
iPhone and iPod Touch:
Click this link to download AP Mobile from the iTunes App Store.
Nokia:
Visit the Nokia Ovi store to get AP Mobile for your phone. Download
Palm Pre:
To download the AP Mobile app, visit the App Catalog on your Palm Pre and search for AP Mobile.
Windows Mobile:
Enter the Windows Marketplace and Search for AP Mobile to download to your device.
Also available on any web enabled device by visiting us at www.apnews.com
Please feel free to contact us at apmobile@ap.org if you have any questions or feedback.
Thank you for your support,
The AP Mobile Team
Verizon’s Apply Your Idea’s Contest!
We are very excited that AP Móvil (AP Mobile’s Spanish language version) has been selected as a semi-finalist in Verizon’s Apply Your Idea’s contest.
On October 7th the voting for the People’s Choice award opens and we need your votes. Your feedback has helped make our app what it is today and we look forward to future upgrades and products. You can show your support by voting for us here: http://www.applyyourideas.com/
AP Móvil lets you stay connected with what’s happening in the world and in your area with multiple language support. Designed specifically for your mobile device, AP Móvil is the only news application that lets you seamlessly toggle back and forth from English to Spanish – while keeping all your customizable settings! Tap into breaking stories, browse award-winning photos, and share news with friends and post them to your favorite networking sites. With AP Móvil, you can get all your international and national news from the AP, plus local news from over 1,200 trusted local sources – from the San Francisco Chronicle to El Nuevo Herald.
Thank you for your votes and support,
AP Mobile
AP Breaking News Alerts: Pushed and on your Front Page
Breaking News Alerts here to Stay:
AP Mobile is the first news application to send you breaking news using ‘Push’ technology. This feature keeps you up to date with the major events of the world as they happen.
Until recently you could not view the breaking news inside the application. Now, in response to user feedback, the breaking news alert will be highlighted in red on the top of your Front Page when you enter the AP Mobile app.
Push Notification
Front Page
Thank you for helping us make your experience with the news more personal and better suited to your lifestyle. We already have plans in the works that will give you the ability to customize the categories that you receive alerts from and the frequency that you get alerts. So keep an eye out for more upgrades to AP Mobile.
Please continue sharing your feedback with us by emailing us at apmobile@ap.org and by visiting our blog at blog.apnews.com.
Thanks,
AP Mobile
AP Mobile 3.1: Fast and Functional
AP Mobile has updated to version 3.1. We have worked hard to maintain the personalization of your news, while enhancing your experience. The focus of this update is to increase the speed and stability of the application as well as tweak the interface. Our goal is to make AP Mobile the most customizable, comprehensive, and user friendly way to get your news.
We appreciate all of your comments and feedback and look forward to hearing more of your thoughts and suggestions. We consider our relationship a partnership and your input serves as a guide to improving AP Mobile.
Thank you for choosing AP Mobile as they way you access your news while on the go. You can email us at apmobile@ap.org and let us know how we are doing!
AP Mobile and The McClatchy Group
The McClatchy Company joins AP Mobile!
We are exited to announce the McClatchy group has joined AP Mobile. They are the third largest newspaper group in America owning 29 papers such as The Miami Herald and The Sacramento Bee.
The AP Mobile team is always working hard to increase the depth of our local coverage so that you can get the news YOU choose. We recognize how important and personal where you get the news is to you. We provide you with more than 1,000 trusted local news sources and look forward to increasing that number.
We are always interested in hearing your thoughts so feel free to email us at apmobile@ap.org
AP Mobile video graphics explore complex, quirky
Video graphics are a new genre of visual journalism for The Associated Press and are available on our iPhone and Palm Pre mobile applications.
The short videos aim to give depth, background or context to a story making headlines. Others may take a quirky or offbeat approach. Through the combined use of graphics, illustration, animation, photos and video, AP’s interactive producers aim to say a lot with very little time. That’s what makes these projects so unique!
For example, when cyber attacks caused outages on prominent government-run sites in both the U.S. and South Korea, our team used animated graphics to explain visually how this type of attack works.
Or perhaps you’re more interested in learning about a selection of the new words added to Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. If you check out our video graphic, you’ll get the exact pronunciation along with an animated rendition of the definition. No dictionary can do that!
These projects are produced twice weekly. Whatever the topic, we seek to inform, entertain and create a memorable experience. We hope you’ll be inspired to share them by text or e-mail your friends. Let us know what you think – e-mail us at apmobile@ap.org.
–Arian Smedley, mobile editor
AP to ‘push’ breaking news alerts to iPhone 3.0 users
The AP Mobile team is excited to use Apple’s “push notification” to send breaking news alerts to iPhone users.
During testing, Ing. Francisco Xavier González Alvarez, an AP Mobile beta user, witnessed a strong earthquake in Mexico City and got an AP alert a ”couple of minutes after the earthquake ended.” Alvarez told us the functionality is “a new level of real-time information.” And that’s
just what we hope to provide.
The AP reports a huge volume of news each day, but we don’t plan to “push” every headline. We realize that would be overwhelming and not terribly useful. Our editors will be selective. And when important news breaks that our users need to know, we’ll send an alert as soon as possible.
Please let us know what you think! We welcome your feedback.
Responding to your comments about AP Mobile 2.0.1 for iPhone
Thanks for all your feedback to 2.0.1. We would like to let you know that we are working on addressing all your great comments. In the next release we will ensure that the update process is seamless, story scrolling is much more smooth, the edit button on the More screen is reinstated and that you do not lose any personally stored information.
Some people have let us know that they liked having Top News as the first screen as opposed to the new fully customizable Front Page. If you like the earlier version better you can either navigate to Categories > Top News and leave the application on this page. Alternatively you can switch off all categories other than Top News Headlines and switch the number of stories to download in Settings to 5.
