Sunday, April 9, 2006
The new PDA version of the online newspaper El Pais
The Spanish newspaper El Pais has a long a very good online version for mobile devices. But a few days ago have given him a good face washing, improve it further, but also has negative points, such as the use of Windows Media format, which will not be able to play in our Palm. In CanalPDA have done a complete analysis:
The news sections allow both navigation in real time as discharge for later reading by readers as Plucker offline or AvantGo. On top of the home menu lets you choose between sections of the International, USA, Opinion, Business, Sports, at a rate of 10 stories each one (most of the major stock market indexes, in the section of Economics), and Other News, which includes Two pieces of Society, Technology, Culture and People. The home itself includes a selection of dynamic information leading inland. Some of the news includes photography, which can be expanded by clicking on it, and there is a gallery with photos of the main edition. It also takes pictures expandable section of opinion, as it includes vignettes from Forges, Romeu and Maximus, among others. Highlight that all pages included in the header of the date and time of updating, not something that happens every day in pocket.
Interactive consulting services
Along with that content, Prisacom has included in the new pocket edition of El Pais the consultation of various mobile interactive services, namely: the weather (forecast to three days hearing by autonónomas communities, populations and continents), the state Traffic on major routes, the way film (for locations, available through the rooms and films); the draw results at the state level (primitive lottery, Bonoloto, ONCE, quinella and special raffles, all of them in detail Prizes), and finally, the television programming of the next three days, consulted by chains clustered in general, digital (A selection of the satellite platform Digital +, but not DTT) and autonomous. All these services have their respective access URLs, which facilitates its consultation without going through the rest of the digital newspaper.
The programming of the TV to a tapTV and radio live
But the innovation that distinguishes the new El Pais pocket is the incorporation of multimedia content. From the cover of your viewing live coverage of the news channel CNN + and the hearing, also live in the scheduling of the Cadena SER radio, both of the same media that the newspaper publishing group. The format is optimized for telephone connections slow, kind of GPRS, so the quality is not exactly ideal, especially in the case of television, but it gives an idea of what is happening on screen. Unfortunately, the use of multimedia features is practically reserved for users of Windows Mobile devices, as Prisacom has opted for the Windows Media format. Most of the owners of Palm Treo and other connected will still have a daily silent.
Audio and video on the WebNo one is perfect
In the new pocket edition of El Pais have been polished by some details. For example, the reduction in size legible recently applied some of the cartoons and comics, even on a screen of 320 pixels wide. Also, the weather forecast for localities is presented in a table of three columns (morning / afternoon / night) whose width is greater than that of most screens, forced to move laterally to read the third column, instead of placing the three time zones below each other. Finally, some readers miss least the top menu of sections on all pages beneath the home, but probably it is a design decision to avoid the occupation of at least six lines of the screen.
By: Mark Gonzalez Troyes in Palm News
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I am interested in the new format for pda