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A month ago, we’ve told you that Inq is working on its own personalized news service/app that will be called MATERIAL. It’s now live, at least for Android users, providing them with the news they care about, neatly dressed in a magazine-like format (i.e. like Flipboard). The Inq folks promise an enhanced news algorithm that will present users not only with news they know and want to read about, but also with other articles that could be interesting to them, helping us discover new things around the web.
To get things started, you should input your Twitter and/or Facebook credentials, and let MATERIAL do its magic. The servers will then scatter the Interwebs for the news you want to read, and prepare a magazine you’ll want to check out on a daily basis. And when your interests change, MATERIAL will keep-up, modifying the news stream to suit your new needs. Of course, the sharing capability also comes included, so you can easily tell your friends about some cool article you’ve read (or photo/video).
Sounds pretty cool though I must add we’ve heard similar claims before. We’ll see whether Inq can out-Flipboard the Flipboard… The MATERIAL app is now in beta and you can grab it from the link below.
MATERIAL (FREE) [Google Play link]
About The Author
Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
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