Google Currents App is Updated With Audio Playlist, Vertical Pagination, Pinch-to-Zoom

Google has released an update to its Google Currents app for iOS that brings Audio Playlist support, Vertical pagination for articles, and Pinch-to-zoom on photos.

Google Currents delivers beautiful magazine-like editions to your tablet and smartphone for high speed and offline reading.

Features:
• Publisher editions - Publishers such as Forbes, The Guardian, TechCrunch, PBS, Saveur, and more have produced hundreds of editions including full length, in-depth articles, videos, fine photography, and slideshows. Editions are free, - covering news, business, lifestyle, fashion, sports, science, technology, design, food, entertainment and more.


• Fast scan - A new navigation mode lets you quickly swipe vertically to discover unread stories within an edition, swipe horizontally to move to the next edition within a category. Or, use the sidebar to jump ahead to a specific edition.

• Breaking stories - Google Currents uses Google search technology to deliver the hottest breaking stories in categories such as world, entertainment, sports, science, and more. As you travel to different countries, additional breaking stories are added to match your location.

• Saved stories - Run across an in-depth article that you want to read later, or a special recipe you want to keep? Star any story to be saved for later, in your personal Saved stories edition.

• Your favorite blogs and feeds - Instantly, turn your Google Reader subscriptions, or any of your favorite blogs/feeds into a beautiful edition with a magazine feel.


• Translate - Currents uses Google translate technology to translate editions into a preferred language of your choice. 44 languages are supported.

What's New In This Version:
• Audio Playlist support for editions.
• Vertical pagination for articles.
• Pinch-to-zoom on photos.
• Bug fixes and interface polish.

You can download Google Currents from the App Store for free.

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