![]() I am not particularly a fan of Standard Digital on the web as it is a mixture of chaos/a noisy homepage, clickbait (I’m looking at you SDE), poorly edited articles, stories that have not been developed properly (they end abruptly just as you have started to either enjoy them or understand what the writer was up to or both), a lack of explicit differentiation between citizen-generated content (UReport) and content from its in-house journalists/reporters or all five rolled into one. If I was to rank the apps on this list, this would top the list. The app is currently in its first version (literally 1.0.0) and I really hope it gets better going forward. When notifications arrive at around 10AM, I have likely already seen (and read) that story from some other source. I’d prefer to be notified every time there’s a major story developing but for some strange reason, I’ve found myself missing out on quite some big news simply because there was no alert. The only problem I have consistently run into while using the app on and off for over 2 months now are the irregular notifications. Users are able to personalize the news content delivered by the app through the app’s settings menu. For fans of radio, Nation FM can also be streamed straight from the app without any issues. The application also acts as a gateway to accessing other content from the Nation Media Group like access to NTV, the media house’s premier television channel, the entire day, live! This is a Godsend given the fact that streaming directly via the NTV website on mobile is a nightmare and the little I have to say about YouTube the better. The latter is more important because mobile data costs can be very steep and where possible, those in the know would very much prefer to fetch as much content as they can while on the school/office/public Wi-Fi for consumption later on. Its interface is clean, navigation is a breeze and it lets users save news for reading later when they are offline from the clearly-labelled Offline News section. From the look of things, the Nation News app was worth waiting for. This is despite the Nation’s competitors having had apps going as far back as 4 years ago. The Nation News app did not exist until early this year (at least as far as I know). Its new application, though belated, is a testament to this status. The Nation Media Group is the largest media house in the country.
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