Download FreeNews - Mobile News and Blog Reader 1.0.6 Free Trial - FreeNews uses RSS to turn your phone into your personal newspaper, blog reader, and sports announcer. 20 times faster than WAP and fully customized with your information.

FreeNews - Mobile News and Blog Reader Publisher's Description

Get the best of millions of websites and blogs to your cell phone in less than 1 minute a day!

Try FreeNews on your Palm Treo or Tungsten!

FreeNews turns your cell phone into your own personal newspaper, weather station, blog reader, sports announcer, CNN news reader, hometown newspaper, stock tracker, housing price tracker, and hobby news source - all rolled into one.

FreeNews gathers the information you care about from the web and puts it on your mobile device. It works like your Yahoo! or MSN home page, giving you a single view of the information you care about most. With FreeNews, you don't waste time surfing websites with your phone - waiting endlessly for your WAP browser to load pages filled with content you don't care about. You get information you select - always at your fingertips. Wherever your busy schedule takes you, FreeNews will keep you up-to-date with the world and your unique interests in it!

"FreeRange has developed an excellent RSS reader for the mobile platform..." - Stuart Hunter, Blackberrycool.com

"FreeNews, one of the latest mobile newsreaders, lets the headline hungry use a mobile phone to digest their favorite blogs or websites efficiently in a matter of minutes..."-John Gartner,Wired News review

FreeNews Features:

Easily select exactly the News you care about

Quickly select just the news you want. You can also add your own news sources from anywhere on the web.

Examples Of News Sources You Can Select

Professional news sites - BBC, Reuters, CNN, NYTimes, etc.

Weblogs (Keep up with the blogs you care about)

Subscribe to your local paper.

Keep up with what?s happening in your hometown (even in another country).

Magazines with online editions

Sports - headlines on your favorite teams, players or event

Weather (for your zip code - or anywhere in the world)

Stocks you are following

Home prices for your housing search

Custom news feeds based on any keyword

Custom categories(set from a web browser)-put your news in folders the way you want.

With FreeNews, you can even create custom news feeds based on any keyword (works like a Google or Yahoo NewsAlert) to keep you current on news regarding a person, a company, or a product.

Not a web or WAP browser

FreeNews was designed from the start to be the best way to receive information on your mobile phone. Limited screen sizes and slow data connections make most internet sites unsuitable for mobile phones, and make even WAP pages designed for mobile phones tedious to use. FreeNews is different. When you connect with FreeNews, all your information is sent to your phone at one time in a compressed format.

Easy Navigation

FreeNews is not a web browser - there are no urls to enter or www?s that you need to remember. You select the news sources you want once from your phone or desktop computer and FreeNews then brings (downloads) this information directly to your phone

An elegantly simple interface makes it easy to organize and find what you are looking for

Once "your news" is in your phone you can quickly scan hundreds of articles for only the ones that interest you

View a list of only the headlines of each article

Quickly step through summaries of articles for more information

Want to read the whole article? No problem!

Read the full text of articles directly on your phone

Built in text-only browser allows you to quickly download the entire text of the articles that interest you.

In those situations when you have no signal, you can still browse article summaries. Then mark them for reading later (automatically marked if you attempt a download) - or send an email of the link to yourself.

Share articles with others

Find something that will interest others? FreeNews includes the ability to email article links to friends and colleagues directly from your phone.

You can make emailing articles links easy by setting up short nicknames that correspond to email addresses.

Key operating features of FreeNews

A true "offline" reader - articles and summaries are stored on your phone.

Only sends down new articles, saving you money on data services.

All information sent to the phone is compressed in size by up to 50%.

Does not depend on a web browser

Technical Details:

FreeNews is a service that combines a compact Java client (MIDP 1.0) with a powerful backend server that maintains up to date information on your phone.

A true "offline" reader - articles and summaries are stored on your phone.

Add any RSS or Atom feed - RSS 0.9, 0.91, 0.92, 1.0, or 2.0.

Add from our database of 50,000 RSS feeds.

Create custom keyword news feeds based on keywords from Yahoo! News.

Import/Export OPML

Entry of any RSS feed directly on your phone or via any web browser.

The FreeNews service is run as an annual subscription.

Note: FreeNews requires that the IBM WebSphere Microedition Java runtime be installed.

You can also download to your phone over-the-air at http://mwap.at