A slightly disappointing news app from a company that generally excels itself in other new media.
Free Swish, but sparse and buggy
While seen as the broadsheet of choice of retired colonels,The Telegraph has been at the forefront of the digital revolution, being the first UK newspaper with a website. The app is simple to use, and looks very swish, with a spinning T logo occupying the screen while stories load, though there is a paucity of pictures, which make it look at times more like a mobile version of the paper's website. And stories do seem to take longer to load than other news apps.
Occasionally links didn't work as well -clicking the headline just prompted the message: Link is not available, with some suggestions. But there's plenty to read, with News and than five other categories on the main menu, including Motoring, Technology and Travel, and each has a decent number of stores. Though any kind of arts or features are conspicuous by their absence.
Strangely as well there's no option for resizing text, which is quite a major oversight. Those retired colonels will have to squint through their monocles. Buggy, slow, and lacking features (in both senses of the word), this is a disappointment from an otherwise quite forward-looking news organisation.
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