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AP Mobile

by The Associated Press

FREE

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AP News is an award-winning mobile news application, rated the Top 3 App of 2008 by TIME magazine and Best in News by The New York Times.  Hailed as one of the best applications for your BlackBerry by CrackBerry.com, AP News provides a one-touch, comprehensive news solution, featuring breaking international and national news from the AP, plus more than 1,000 local newspaper and broadcaster sources from AP members.

As a downloadable application, AP News updates and caches content upon launch, thus keeping users in the know while on a plane or underground. It includes a complete set of news categories including Sports, Entertainment and Wacky News, plus AP s award-winning photos.

Features include:

- Configure Categories: Users can pre-select and organize news categories for quick and easy access.  
- Set Local Preferences: Users can select one or multiple locations by zip code and get news from their local trusted source
- Ranked Stories: Users can view stories by the most highly rated
- Send to a Friend: Users can text or e-mail a story or image to a friend
- Send to Facebook: Users can post stories to their Facebook page to facilitate discussion
- Save Stories: Users can save stories to read later in the dedicated ?Saved Stories? category. 
- Read Offline: Users can read stories offline, without depending on a network connection. 

Not convinced? Watch the demo at www.apnews.com and check out other user feedback: 

"This is a great application. I always read the New York Times, USA Today, and CNN mobile sites before I found this application. Much more organized and up-to-date information."

Latest Reviews

awesome app
February 08 2010

Use it everyday. Love how it auto updates so even when I'm out of reception range I can still read up on the current news. Definitely one worth the download.