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Android App Tablet Review: AP Mobile

Review for AP Mobile

Posted October 16, 2011 2:04pm by Phil Hornshaw Tags: News, Tablets

APPOLICIOUS ADVISOR RATING:

4 of 5 bars
  • PRICE: Free
  • TASTY: Huge amount of up-to-date news stories.
  • BUMMER: Suffers from some performance issues.
  • COOL: Watching news videos if you don’t feel like reading.

The AP Mobile app looks good and reads well on tablets and offers a great deal of news and video. Unfortunately, the app has a tendency to hang up and feels a little unstable.

Once you’ve narrowed your location, the app compiles the day’s top headlines, sports and even “wacky” news stories right at your fingertips. Stories are presented very cleanly, but it’s easy to find pictures to expand and videos to watch alongside the text-heavy AP stories.

The tablet screen is used to full effect by AP Mobile, but the app suffers from some performance issues. Sometimes videos won’t load, and the app occasionally stalls when you try to tap into a story or another tab.

Those issues aside, AP Mobile presents a whole lot of news for free, and reading it on your tablet won’t make you crazy. News junkies: This one should be on your home screen.

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