Although CNN, USA Today, Fox News and MSNBC are decent news apps for Android, yet nothing comes close to News360 app for Android Honeycomb tablets.  Not only News360 aggregates news from various sources, it also puts then in an intuitively beautiful format.

Instead of reading the same news from different sources, News360 provides the news once but lists all the corresponding stories together. It leaves up to you though which source you want to read from.  In “360 view” it puts the news in image format which are floating in a 3D sphere.  To read the news, just tap on any picture and the corresponding story will be up on the screen.

I have used this app for almost 15 days so far and I am really impressed with its quality.  The collection of sources is really impressive.  I almost stopped using other news app like CNN and USA Today.

News360 widget seems to give some sluggishness to the tablet.  News widget on my Acer ICONIA Tab A500 keeps on crashing and I had to hard reset the tablet.  After I removed the widget, the problem went away.  I presume that is something to be fixed in a next update.  The widget by itself is really beautiful.

 

At the time of writing, the app connects with Twitter, Facebook, Tripit, Instapaper and ReadItLater so that the stories can be shared quickly to these services.  The app also uses the GPS location to provide local news.

News360 app is available for FREE to anyone with Honeycomb tablet from Android Market.  Just search for it.  News360 also falls in to the Featured tablet app.  I am sure you are going to love it.  If you haven’t tried it yet, then definitely give it a try.

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