The new Flipboard also features personalized “smart magazines” that anyone can curate. Lots of people are interested in photography and you can find plenty of content on that topic, but some people may want to focus on a particular brand of camera, like Canon or Nikon, and that’s now easy to do on Flipboard.įlipboard calls this selection process the “passion picker” as if to emphasize its philosophy that people don’t just want news and information, they want to follow their passions. When I picked Warriors, I was offered even more granular topics, including Stephen Curry. In sports, you can select “find a team” and then pick the San Francisco 49ers or Golden State Warriors.
For example, you could just follow “technology” but you could also pick a subtopic such as “drones,” “wearable tech” or “virtual reality.” But in a new version for the iPhone, Android and the web, released on Wednesday, the app now allows even greater customization.Īs before, you can select topics, but now you can also select subtopics for a more granular selection. Maybe I’m a dying breed, but I still prefer to read my news on a computer screen if one is handy.įlipboard has long allowed users to customize the content of their online magazines –- picking from different publications and blogs along with specific topics of interest like technology or photography. Still, I also give Flipboard credit for having a robust website as well. It’s so good, some publications have built Flipboard’s display technology into their own apps to make reading more pleasant. It takes full advantage of the way smartphones and tablets can display pages by allowing you to “flip” from one page to another.
Lots of apps try to mimic the layout of glossy magazines, but Flipboard has always been far more than just an attempt to be as good as a print magazine. Flipboard, an app for iOS, Android and the web, has long been one of my favorite ways to read online news, mainly because of the way it displays stories.
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