With the lack of Honeycomb-optimized applications available today, it’s always nice to find one that is that you’ll actually use. This is the case with Zinio’s magazine reader app, which has worked closely with NVIDIA to bring the best experience to the app.
Zinio has quite a far reach and is available (or will be soon) on just about any mobile device you can think of, as well as desktop operating systems. The video below with show the difference in performance between the optimized and unoptimized Zinio application on the Motorola Xoom, and you can easily tell why NVIDIA and Zinio teamed up. That said, it also shows just how much Android applications need to be optimized, period.
Zinio offers up a lot of content and some of the magazines offered you may have never heard of. Unfortunately, my oddball and very specific love of horror movies didn’t yield any results in Zinio, but I guess I can’t blame them for that. Still, there is loads of content to be consumed, and the application itself is simple and easy to use. Android users who download the Zinio application right now will be given three free magazines of Popular Science, ESPN, and Bazaar. The latter of which has more ads than an Android application, which is really saying something.
Navigating through Zinio is about as simple as it can get. Once you launch the application, you be taken straight to your purchased content and can immediately jump into the Zinio store to buy more magazines.Reading magazines is a fluid experience, and pages scale beautifully. You can zoom into a page and thanks to the optimizations from NVIDIA, the task is handled with ease. You can also jump into a specific page by tapping on the screen and a small slide show of pages will be displayed at the bottom.
All in all, Zinio is likely the best magazine application for the OS, and thanks to NVIDIA, it looks the best, too. Grab it for your Android 3.0+ device for free here.
Press release after the break,
[Via: NVIDIA]