Google services just keep getting better and better. Today they have redesigned the mobile news page to perfectly fit it into your smartphone(Android, iPhone and Palm Pre) screens. They expanded the story space to make tapping on articles easier and more accurate. Tapping anywhere on an article headline or snippet opens it up, and clicking on a section heading opens up that topic section on your screen. The other change is that stories now come up collapsed by default, so theres a lot less scrolling. If you want to dig into a story just tap on ‘More sources’ and it expands to show related stories from other sources. Google has put screenshots of the collapsed and expanded views up on their mobile blog if you want a look.
If you were wondering, this is a follow up to the makeover Google News got last November for iPhone, Android and Palm Pre, which gave the phone version the same look and personalization as the desktop site. Todays enhancements are rolling out globally and theres nothing to download, just point your phones browser to news.google.com and it should be there.
Already a reader on the Google blog is asking for a proper Google News app for Android, and we wouldnt mind one either!! Do let us know in the comments if the new look has shown up on your phone yet.
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