Description
NPR News: The ultimate portable NPR experience for your iPhone or iPod Touch. Follow local and national news and listen to your favorite NPR stations wherever you are and whenever you want to.
Version 2.0 includes these new features and enhancements (see 'What's New,' below, for complete list).
-> More timely editorial content in Top Stories
-> Resume listening to most recent audio story after a phone call or relaunching the app
-> In-session notification when NPR runs special live coverage
-> Improved Facebook posting
-> 'Stations' defaults to user's favorites
-> All new Playlist presentation and audio controls
With the NPR News iPhone app, NPR is always on.
Highlights:
Listen
- Listen live to public radio stations coast to coast
- Listen to NPR’s hourly news updates
- Create a playlist of stories to hear in any order or to save for later
- Hear public radio podcasts on demand without downloading and synching
Read
- Read stories while listening to live stations or on demand audio
- Download stories for offline reading
Stations
- Bookmark your favorite stations
- Find stations by location (GPS) or zip code
- Find station broadcast frequencies while traveling
Programs
- A program guide tells you where your favorite programs are playing live now; listen right on your phone
- Listen to popular public radio programs like Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, Fresh Air, Car Talk, and Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!
The NPR News app works on all iPhone / Touch Operating Systems and is optimized for OS 3.0.
Technical Notes:
- If you encounter the rare situation where the playlist causes issues using the app, please delete the app from your device and re-install V. 1.2.2 from the App Store.
- If you need support using the app or wish to report an issue or feature request, please do so at: nprmobile@npr.org
What's New in Version 2.0
-> Resume listening after a phone call or relaunching the app
-> Improved Facebook posting including story photos
-> New graphical look
-> More timely editorial content in Top Stories
-> In-session notification when NPR runs special live coverage (e.g., breaking news events)
-> Stations section will default to user's favorites
-> All new Playlist including single-screen presentation, previous/next, fast forward/rewind and what's playing
-> A variety of user interface refinements and enhancements
-> Zoom news photos including landscape viewing
-> Playlist record counter
-> Ability to reset the application to remove all user data
-> Many more tweaks and improvements
-> NOTE: Because of the completely new playlist, this version will remove items that are currently in your playlist when you first launch the update.
Customer Reviews
Awesome but flawed
I've been waiting for this application since I first bought an iPhone, and it's a brilliant first step. Access to individual programs, home stations, and the web-based text summations all work like a charm with one major flaw: no pause function or capability to seek within the track. I understand this isn't probably going to ever be available for the live radio station following, but it really is a necessity for the individual program replay. Also, the text news function occasionally sticks and one ends up reading old news. If those two issues are fixed, this will probably be my most used app.
This app refuses to run if you disable Medialytics
I get the following message when I try to run this because I have disabled medialytics:
MEDIALYTICS PRIVACY NOTICE
"NPR News" chooses to monetize their content using the Medialets Ad framework, which in turn requires usage of the Medialytics Tracking engine.
I then have two choices: Don't Allow (Quit) or Allow (Continue)
This is really lame. I donate a lot of money to my local NPR station, and I shouldn't have to enable Medialytics (which tracks GPS coordinates of its users, a really big privacy concern) to use your app. You HAVE to get rid of Medialytics on this app, or at least let it run if it has been disabled.
Love it, but...
NPR has one of the best news/radio apps out there--well let's face it, the only real news AND radio app. I love the interface, the approach to ads, playlists (fixed!), and quality of product.
My only issue is that of the news compiling every time I open the app without removing the old top stories. I still have news articles from months ago on the list, every article ever loaded since originally downloading the app. While it may be nice for some who enjoy being a human library of current events long past, it would be nice to get rid of them. Am I missing some basic 'clear cache' button?
- Free
- Category: News
- Updated: Mar 04, 2010
- Current Version: 2.0
- 2.0 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
- 1.7 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: NPR
- © 2009
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later.
