As announced News Wall 2.0 is currently rolling-out to App Stores around the world. Enjoy the experience with the great new user interface, feed search and really fast downloads.

The update is available as free and paid version for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

News Wall major update 2.0 will be available for download December 9. It brings a revamped interface, much faster downloads, feed search and much more. Both the free and the paid version do work on iPhone and iPad now.

I am really excited what you will think of it.

Major update 2.0 of News Wall for iPhone and iPad has been submitted to Apple’s review team. Even though it is the first update of the app it deserves being a major update. Here are the most important changes:

• new article style combining images and text
• advanced article reading view with next/previous buttons
• completely rewritten feed fetching core
• really fast feed loading
• improved feed reading so nearly every feed can be used
• search feeds by keywords

News Wall Free now runs both on the iPhone and the iPad. It displays ads and has some limitations when it comes to social sharing.

The update will hit the App Store during the next day. Feel free to contact me (you can do this directly in the app now).

Apple just approved News Wall Free. It uses iAd at the bottom and therefore relies on iOS4. That’s the reason for not being usable on iPad. Once iPad gets its iOS4 update, News Wall Free will support iPad as well.
In general, News Wall Free works the same way as News Wall. However, you can only use one account per external service like Twitter, Instapaper and Read It Later. Furthermore, News Wall Free will not get Google Reader Integration with the next update.

When you read an article it gets marked as read automatically. Every feed displays the number of unread articles. The sum of all articles statistics is shown at the top of your screen. When you tap on this black bar, the wall menu appears giving you the opportunity to mark all articles as read. This means really all articles.

Furthermore, you can mark all articles of a single RSS feed simply by tapping and hold on the feed itself. This open the feed menu where you – again – have the option to mark the articles as read. This works both on iPad and iPhone.

Sometimes you may want to refresh only one of your RSS feeds. This is much faster than refreshing all your feeds. Doing so is really easy. Tap and hold on the one article of the feed you want to refresh to open up a menu. This menu contains a refresh button.

Feed menu on iPhone

Feed menu on iPad

Please notice that News Wall’s backend system caches feeds for 2 minutes. You will not receive new articles within this time. This applies both to the free and the paid (iPhone & iPad) version.

When you start News Wall or News Wall Free on your iPhone you will notice that there are no images. Because of the much smaller screen of your iPhone compared to an iPad, the app disables images by default. This way, more feeds can be displayed at a time. However, it’s quite simply to activate this feature.
Open the settings screen by tapping on the little (i) at the top-right corner. When you scroll down you will see a switch which enables the view of images.

From now on, the first image of every article is extracted from the RSS stream. News Wall downloads it so it gets stored on your device. Every pictures takes about 20 – 60 kBytes of your memory. Of course, they are deleted when you remove the RSS feed.
This applies both to the free and the paid version.

News Wall is a news feed reader for iPad and iPhone with an extraordinary different interface. It has been designed to support skimming so users can focus solely on the content. Both the paid app and a free version including ads support fast app switching and the Retina Display.

What is it all about

News Wall reads RSS feed so you have the choice which content you want to use. Every feed is displayed as a scrollable row containing the feed’s items side-by-side. These rows can be collapsed so the display space is used in the most efficient way.

Share what you like

While reading your news you can easily share them via Twitter or e-mail. Furthermore, articles can be saved using Instapaper and Read It Later.
Of course, URL shortening via Bit.ly is supported as well. You even can hook up your own Bit.ly account so you keep track of the clicks.

Be prepared

News Wall runs both on iPhone and iPad requiring iOS 3.2 or higher. It supports Fast App Switching on iOS4 and the Retina Display of the iPhone 4.

Feature Overview

• Read and manage RSS feeds
• User interface optimized for fast reading and skimming
• Auto-discovery of feed address, integrated search to find feeds
• Instapaper support
• Read It Later support
• Twitter support
• Bit.ly URL shortening support
• No Internet connection needed to read on the move

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