Nokia Reading
The Finnish company Nokia had at the Mobile World Congress de Barcelona a good launching pad for several of its products. One of them has been the Nokia Reading application, which aims to enter the world of news readers and electronic books for smartphones with operating system Windows Phone 7, more specifically for the Lumia range from the company itself Nokia
From what could be seen during the fair, it is a complete tool that stands out both for its features, as well as its visual design, which fits perfectly with the look , screens and menus of the Microsoft operating system In addition, it has as a positive point that not only works as a e-book or digital book reader, but is capable of organizing the RSS subscriptions of the user through a very attractive screen, simulating the layout of a digital magazine
Regarding its use, it must be said that it is a very intuitive application, with few menus very well structured so that the user knows where he is at all times.In general, it has three main sections: News Stream, My Books and Bookstore The first one, News Stream, refers to the function newsreader of this application. It is an information channel that the user can customize to be informed of what interests them most
This news reader stands out for its possibility of configuration Thus, by clicking on the lower left button called More (more), you can choose the information categories that you want to collect: Technology, Science, Business, Design, etc And what is better, just by sliding your finger from right to left you can allows to create a new category This can be based on the default fonts offered by Nokia Reading, or enter the address of the web page from which you want to receive informationThus, clicking on any box of News Stream accesses the main category, where the received news items are ordered by boxes. You just need to click on the desired one to read the content, see its images or click the button that leads directly to the web page where the information comes from.
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For your part, My Books, collect the electronic booksstored in the terminal, both the well-known e-books, and the audiobooks Operation of this section is very similar to that of other readers seen previously, also having a large number of configurable options Among them stands out the possibility of change the size of the text or the background colors This section also has a very interesting option: the possibility of anchoring a book to the screen main of the terminal.Thus, when clicking on it, the readingis resumed from the point where it left off
Finally, the section Bookstore refers to a market for books and audiobooks to buy and download Here it is possible to search for a specific title, or view the selections according to genre, being able to find a section of free books In short, aComplete tool for the most frequent users of reading. Maybe you can missing other functions seen in readers like Flipboard or Press, where in addition to information you can include as sources the user's social networks For now, Nokia Reading is scheduled to be released for the Nokia Lumia range next month of April, when it will be published simultaneously in UK, France, Italy, Russia, Germany and also inSpain
