Join the public beta for Paper Boy. The fresh news reader from the developer of BBC News Mobile

Paper Boy for Windows Phone 8

BBC News Mobile was one of your (and ours) favorite apps. Unfortunately, information technology was a third political party development effort and was put to pasture from BBC pressure. The app had been a labor of dear from developer Lawrence Gripper, our friend across the swimming in the Britain. Thankfully, the years of work he put into the BBC News Mobile app isn't going to just sit effectually unused. He's taken pieces of the code base to build a generic news reader called Paper Boy. You should join in on the public beta happening right now. You know where to detect the link.

Newspaper Boy basically picks off where the BBC News Mobile app stopped. A sweet UI meets your need for a abiding stream of news. This time around you take a few more options to choose for your news instead of the BBC. In addition to the BBC and subsections within the BBC, yous've got ArsTechnica, Wired, TechCrunch, the Washington Mail service, Financial Times, Reuters, and more. Hey Lawrence, don't forget to add together a sure Windows Phone site to the tech department!

Paper Boy screenshot

After calculation your news you'll run into the latest articles, most read stories, your feeds, and sections. From in that location you can read abroad. Orange, black and white theme? We're digging it. It'south a color philharmonic you don't come across often enough.

Paper Boy screenshot 2

If you do join the public beta be sure to send any bugs you discover or suggestions you have to Lawrence. That's like an unspoken rule of joining one. Or peradventure information technology's a fabricated upward rule for us. Either way hit him up on Twitter or go the UserVoice for the app.

Paper Boy is bachelor for Windows Telephone 8. It'south a gratuitous, public beta. You can go it in the Store, utilize the QR code below, or swipe to the right in our app.

Thank you for the tip Andy!

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