Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Nokia Introduces Nokia Reader 1.0 Beta for Symbian

Nokia Betalabs has announced  simple and easy to use RSS reader to manage news feeds on your Symbian^3 or S60 5.0 device.  Nokia Reader pushes your favorite news feeds to your homescreen allowing you to quickly catch up on current events.  (See video above).

 

This useful application is easy to setup: Just select your favorite feeds from a pre-populated list of major news sources or add a new feed just by typing the website address.

And thanks to push notifications, battery consumption is modest and content is always fresh.

Main features include:

Uses push notifications

Content directory

Homescreen widget

Supports Nokia Account

Please note: Nokia Reader is an experimental beta application and service, which was created for testing push notifications globally.

 

Visit http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/nokia-reader to try it out!