BBC News Mobile v4 on its way, re-written from the ground up. Here's a sneak peek.

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BBC News Mobile for Windows Telephone, developed by Lawrence Gripper, is a highly rated app that absorbs all the headlines from BBC's news partitioning and presents it in an aesthetically pleasing interface. We've continuously praised the work that Lawrence has poured into the project, but he's showing no signs of halting someday presently. Version four is well on its fashion.

And so what'due south new in version 4? Well, information technology's probably easier to ask, "What isn't new?" as the app has been completely re-written from the basis up. Lawrence states on his personal web log that the code utilised in the electric current version of BBC News Mobile is two years-old, which takes us back to the launch of Windows Phone itself - fairly one-time ones and zeros indeed.

Since the app is built from scratch, Lawrence has been able to better stability, functioning, compatibility (with Windows Phone 8) and the overall feel without working on old lawmaking and simply implementing fixes. We've taken the beta for a spin (it's available on the weblog) and immediately noticed operation improvements, which are warmly welcomed with the increased specifications of Windows Phone 8 hardware.

BBC News Mobile

Speaking of Windows Phone viii, BBC News Mobile version 4 supports both broad and medium Live Tiles that nowadays relevant information to the user, not to mention lock screen wallpaper integration for photos from the BBC photo weblog to be pulled down and applied as daily wallpapers. While the app is well on its way, it's not complete and there'south nevertheless a few miles of mount left to climb, but what we've seen and then far is exciting indeed.

So what's missing from the electric current beta?

Offline reading mode
Side by side and previous story buttons when reading story
Share story
Secondary live tiles for sections

Equally well as the above, Lawrence plans to implement a welcome experience, which is expected to be in the form of a walkthrough to aid new users in setting up Live Tiles, lock screen wallpapers, feeds, as well as configuring other options. It's going to be a superb version of BBC News Mobile for Windows Telephone 8. Check out our quick visual walkthrough below:

You can download the electric current version of BBC News Mobile from the Windows Phone Shop for free, and the beta XAP for the upcoming release is available over on Lawrence's evolution weblog (annotation you'll require a developer unlocked handset). We await the new version to be released in due course.

QR: BBC News Mobile

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