AP Mobile

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

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

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 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!

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

A new version of AP Mobile has been loaded to the Apple App Store. Version 2.0.1 addresses the bug that some users were seeing when upgrading from 1.5.1. The new version also allows users to view weather in Celsius or Fahrenheit. We will update this post when the application goes live on App Store.

AP Mobile for Nokia has launched on Nokia’s Ovi Store and was nominated by TechCrunch as one of the 10 must-download applications that every Nokia user should have. You can download AP Mobile for your S60 or Series 40 Nokia phone from Ovi or learn more about the application on the Nokia Ovi portal.

Hi AP Mobile News Network Friends,

Thank you for all your feedback and support. You have helped make the Mobile News Network one of the most popular news applications in the industry.

We are honored to have been nominated for Best Mobile News Application in the annual Webby Awards. This is considered the internet’s highest honor, and with your votes we can win!

Please take the time to cast your vote at http://pv.webbyawards.com by April 30th. Tell your friends, tell your coworkers, tell the world that AP Mobile News Network is in a class of its own.

We are excited to continue improving and innovating the way you get the news. AP Mobile News Network keeps you in the Know on the Go.

Thank you for your support.

Vote for us!

AP Mobile Blackberry

Choose “AP Mobile News for BlackBerry” as Best in Show at CTIA Wireless 2009.

For the first time, you can see all the entries on a dedicated microsite. Visit the CTIA Emerging Technology Awards site and select “Mobile Applications & Widgets – Mobile Entertainment/Social Networking” from the dropdown. Mark it as a Favorite to vote.

The winner of the “Best In Show” award which will be announced at the E-Tech Awards Ceremony on April 2, 2009.

CTIA-The Wireless Association is an international nonprofit membership organization founded in 1984 representing all sectors of wireless communications.

The addition of an advertising component to the iPhone and other Mobile News Network applications has generated significant feedback from users – largely negative. At present, an ad-supported model is our best option to provide MNN apps free to the user. However, we recognize that ads can be frustrating and we’d like to explain why advertising is a necessary component, at least for now.

   
The AP is a member-owned, not-for-profit cooperative. The Mobile News Network is part of an initiative aimed at finding new digital outlets for news and information produced by AP members. It’s designed to offer users access to local and national news from trusted sources and it makes AP members competitive in the mobile news business.

Ads on the Mobile News Network allow us to supply you with the best possible comprehensive news application on the market.  We’ve gone to great lengths to make the user experience a positive one as we understand that a mobile device is very personal. We’re happy to see that user reviews and media coverage of the MNN have been overwhelmingly positive.

Developing mobile applications, especially native client applications, is a very costly proposition. They require not only start-up capital but ongoing investment in maintenance, upgrading operating systems, developing new features, building new releases and delivery platforms, etc. The MNN is not a one-time, self-contained, downloaded app, but a live application that ingests content from a central system on a real-time basis.  Multiply this by multiple carriers, device manufacturers and operating systems and you can start to understand the complexity and costs involved.  AP has a responsibility to operate the cooperative efficiently for its members and is not in a position to underwrite or fully subsidize these costs.  

Mobile screens vary in size but there is limited real-estate available for ads. We continually work to make ads on the MNN as unobtrusive as possible while ensuring they’re an effective vehicle for advertisers. We plan to monitor and make changes as necessary in future releases to maintain this balance. Currently the ads on the MNN disappear quickly and move to the end of the story you are on. We may explore other options in the future.

Some users have said they’d prefer a paid application as an alternative to the ad-supported model.  We have been exploring, and will continue to explore, this path and invite you to participate in a user poll so that we can better gauge the appetite for paid applications.

We encourage you to watch this blog for new information about the MNN applications, including information about how we’ll handle ads in upcoming releases. We sincerely appreciate your continued support of the Mobile News Network and look forward to your feedback in the future.

- Michael Boord , Deputy Director, Mobile Operations