Comments on: Wall Street Journal Gets Branded Version Of FreeRange

By: dealpocket

dealpocket — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:29:15 +0000

I’m still just messing with it. It feels a lot like what Tango is also becoming, but with a expected “Wall Street” slant. I can consistently crash this by trying to edit what stock tickers are displayed (scroll all the way down and boom). And like was said, the key commands are taking some getting used to (why do app devs do this? Please, stick with how RIM does it for consistency!).
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By: Wall Street Journal Mobile Reader Gets Bug Fix | BerryReview.com »

Wall Street Journal Mobile Reader Gets Bug Fix | BerryReview.com » — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:02:12 +0000

[...] let me know that the WSJ branded version of FreeRange that we mentioned previously has been updated this weekend to fix some bugs. Turns out there was an issue with the first release [...]

By: FierceWireless Releases Free Branded FreeRange Reader | BerryReview.com »

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:35:24 +0000

[...] FreeRange based RSS readers seem to be quite popular recently. The Wall Street Journal just released one and now FierceWireless has announced their own. The reader looks good and is essentially a branded [...]

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:18:28 +0000

Yeah I just hate seeing all of my memory getting eaten up by these RSS readers…

By: DavidB

DavidB — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:09:30 +0000

By: Luciano ES

Luciano ES — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:40:00 +0000

I hated this interface. It’s clumsy. Also I got “transmission errors” whenever I tried to get full stories. So I don’t know if it displays the feeds’ images. This app looks good at first, but feels terrible in actual use. The concept of tabs in such a small feed reader is bad. You can add your own feeds, but they’re all dumped into one common folder/tab without any organization. My uninformed guess is that Freerange makes these free ad-supported versions in such a way that won’t threaten its original excellent but overpriced version. I really like Freerange and I don’t like Viigo, but even Viigo is better than this WSJ version.
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I am giving up on these lame RSS readers. I’ve begun to work on my own Web-based reader so I don’t need these anymore. I’ll see what I can do to offer it to the general public.

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:33:51 +0000

Yeah Luc told me that these branded versions are not as good as the regular Freerange or Newsgator solutions

By: Nikolaus

Nikolaus — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:53:49 +0000

Well I have mixed feelings from using this. First I LOVED it. I think the UI is great, and I the controls easy. However you hit “7″ rather than “space” to scroll down, which is odd. Second and more importantly, I tired to add my own keywords to watch for, and got app errors both times, for Google source and Yahoo News source. It seems there are some bugs on their end to fix. Overall a 3/5.