Using the smartphone to follow the latest news of the day is a rather obvious use that can be improved by using the right application. The starting point of this article is given by a recent update of the old Google News and Weather application, pre-installed in many Android smartphones and renewed now with a much better graphic design than the poor and spartan old version.
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The Google News and Weather application can now be installed for free on Android smartphones and iPhones.
The news is that of Google News which collects the main news of online newspapers.
In the options you can change the location of the news by choosing to read those of the Italian newspapers.
The news are also separated by topics that can be excluded at will.
The application also has two different widgets to get the weather for the next few days, to read the headlines of the latest news or to see a box with both.
Google News also includes the Google Newsstand section which allows you to read news from personalized sources, not necessarily online newspapers, but also blogs such as Navigaweb .
Google News and Weather is now an excellent app, light and fast, but there are plenty of alternatives, obviously free.
Among the best applications for iPhone and Android to read the news of the day in a fast, comfortable and complete way, even with division of topics are at least 7.
1) Microsoft News, for Android and iPhone, is the best alternative to Google News, with an app updated in 2018, modern and rich in content.
Compared to Google News it is also more customizable on the first page, therefore choosing the topics you are most interested in and with a widget to keep fixed on the screen.
2) News Republic, for Android and for iPhone is a news app that focuses heavily on graphics, with a nice interface to choose the topics you are interested in.
There are many categories of news so it is possible to make a very personal choice on what you want to read.
The articles inside are always complete and there is also a rating system to indicate the most interesting ones to other users.
Very nice also the widget that allows you to browse the news of a certain topic chosen quickly from the home screen.
3) Feedly for Android and for iPhone, and the best application to read blog feeds, ideal for Google Reader orphans.
Feedly has a fast reading system all based on finger movements and allows you to add new sources to follow other news.
With Feedly it is also very easy to share news on social media and on Facebook.
4) Press review, for Android and for iPhone, is the app for those who want to read the main newspapers online directly on their smartphone or tablet.
In this regard, it should be borne in mind that some newspapers such as Corriere and Repubblica are paid in the mobile version.
To open the websites in PC version, on the mobile phone, it is necessary to change the user agent on the browser as explained in the guide.
5) Flipboard for Android and for iPhone is an application similar to News Republic and Google Play Newsstand, where you can create your own personalized newspaper with the chosen topics and sources.
This is the best app for super fluid graphics and interface, very easy and beautiful to move and manage.
6) Prime Pages is an app only for Android, very nice, to be able to see and read the first pages of the main newspapers on newsstands every day.
7) Italian newspapers for Android and MyNews for iPhone are two similar applications, which act as aggregators of the news for the main newspapers, very good and complete.
8) Navigaweb Tech, the best in the whole store, is the app to follow the news of this blog.
After this, nothing else should be needed to be super-informed on Android and well-educated in information technology and technology.
Obviously this is a non-partisan judgment ...
