RIM launches BlackBerry News Feeds beta

Hope this is beTter than viigo ...

Wish they had put google reader integration on this one, other then that is nice

How is this any different to Social Feed?

It isn't showing up online if I search App World through BlackBerry.com. Also, I agree with Shexo, anybody want to detail what is different, or is this basically the RSS part of Social Feeds for non-6 users?

It isn't showing up for me...guess i'll check back later.

Ditto on the social feeds/news feeds comments. I just started getting use to the RSS feeds in the social feeds app and was assuming they would just enchance this app. Doesn't make sense to have 2 RIM apps serving up RSS feeds??? It will be interesting to see what becomes of these two apps.

Of course... a few days after I bought BeReader. But then again, I prefer Google Reader and I doubt RIMs solution provides that integration.

I tried OS6 on my 9650 and hated it. Not only is OS6 made primarily for touch screen devices, but Viigo is one of my most used apps and the RSS reader in the social feeds app was absolutely terrible. I was highly disappointed that was the best RIM could do after buying out Viigo.

Let's hope this is something better, but I won't hold my breath.

Still nothing for me

Clear App World cache to see if u get it peeps alt+RST

Wasn't popping up in App world, cleared my caches (thanks ealvnv) and did a search...Blackberry News Feeds appeared, installed...testing now.

Can I download it from somewhere else? I live in one of those cuntries where dragons still fly around, so no appworld for me. Sucks.

What was the point of social feeds?

This better live up to Viigo's standards. Viigo is my most used app and it has been torture living without it since I moved on over to OS6.

Why couldn't RIM just take Viigo... change the name... then update it to work on OS6. Viigo was a fully functioning program that was at the top of it's game. What a waste!!!!

Finally installed it and remain confused. Not sure why they have this and the social feeds application. The only real difference is that you can mark and delete items (should have just updated social feeds to do this??). Nothing like having two RIM options for RSS feeds. Weird?

Typical RIM confusion and questionable implementation. Does RIM have a PR advisor? If so, do they listen to the advice?

Interesting... it shows up in App World for me, but no download button.
Check the online App World site and it says it's not compatible with my device. Yet, lists the 9700 in the device list.
I'm on a 9700 with AT&T's latest 5.0.0.979 build! Go figure!

As for the comparison's to Viigo, if I understand correctly, RIM bought Viigo and THIS is their first release of it. Now, if they dumped Viigo's code and built their own, or if this is their updated Viigo code, I have no clue.

However, this will get me flamed but, I never liked Viigo. Not one bit. So, honestly, I'm hoping for something a lot nicer, cleaner and that does not feel like Google Reader (something else I can't stand.)
If not, I'll go back to reading my RSS in Outlook 2007's native RSS reader.

can you guys post a link for users that get the message: "sorry your country is not supported by appworld" ? I would be thankful

I've been using Social Feed since I upgraded to OS6.The only downside is that I would rather not have BBM and FB, which is why U downloaded News Feeds but so far I haven't been able to manually add feeds that are not made available.

Does anyone know how to manually add a feed that is not on the menu?

It has some Viigo code, I would guess. You can import all of your Viigo feeds.

Anyone able to log in using their existing blackberry ID once they have the application downloaded?

I have it up working like a champ. Works great easy to add feeds, and I just imported my Viigo feeds to speed up the process.

Works great, only problem is no option to delete all read articles at once. I don't know why they didn't include this option. I have almost 200 feeds and easily get over 1,000 articles daily. So what am I suppose to do, Let them all pile up or go through and delete them one at a time?

I've heard they get saved to your memory card which is great, But still I'll never go back and re read old articles, so I'd much rather be able to just delete them all and be done with it. Seems like a really stupid thing to leave out. Especially since Viigo does it.

OTA anyone? Any website hosting it?

it is extremely simple and light weight, but i won't be using it since it doesn't sync with Google Reader, why would i want so much redundancy...i don't.

Playing with this new Blackberry News Feed reader in its beta form, at first I thought it was about time RIM decided to make its own branded RSS reader especially since its been a while since RIM acquired Viigo but I was heavily disappointed once it was loaded and I started using it on my Blackberry Bold 9000 (I know a little out of date but its too hard to let go, sometimes almost literally). I feel that the UI is terrible for a small physical QWERTY, non-touchscreen, Blackberry. Scrolling up and down takes additional effort, most which is due to RIM adding new/all text under each article name. With Viigo a lot of information was presentable right when it was loaded making it easier to navigate and see what you wanted to see. I do admit that it does look quite snazzy. It also feels like it takes some time to open articles. I noticed that RIM has not yet added a way to limit how many articles may be present at a time but they will most likely get to it in time. An auto-update is present which makes it very much convenient for quick in-out use. I also liked how it integrates your Blackberry User ID like in the Blackberry App World.

Overall I am not impressed by this rss reader, mostly in turn to having used Viigo for so long. On a Blackberry 9800 Torch I understand the need for this reader to avoid using the touchpad. The space provided per rss per article seems like there is plenty of space regardless of how large your finger maybe, I was tempted to tap my screen when I first loaded it but Im still waiting for that touchscreen Bold to one day hit the market and will be patiently waiting with for it.

I still can't see any notificaitons upon new RSS feeds...what does that APP has the Social feeds in the OS 6...doesn't have.....I beleive there should be a sort of a statemnt that this APP is useful for OS 5 only..If somebody fint eh notifcations in the TORCH ..please elt me know

I've seen some of you mention importing your rss feeds to this app from viigo. Is there a way to import all of them at once from viigo, or do you have to just take each rss url one by one and add it to this new app?

One of the things I enjoyed the most about 6.0 on my Bold 9650 was Social Feeds, but 6.0 was to buggy on my phone so I returned to 5.0.0.975. Social Feeds was nice because it would follow the news feeds, Twitter and Facebook. With 5.0 I missed being able to pick the news feeds I want to follow and get rid of the ones I don't. News Feeds is doing this very well so far. No issues adding my feeds including the local news and getting rid of the stock choices I don't care about. I can choose the refresh frequency, look at the headings , read if I want, return to the top and choose mark prior opened, next feed, and done. Back to work! Good Job RIM. Its not Social Feeds but it does fill the void on News Feeds for us 5.0 folks and it's FREE!

Downloaded it but it asks for BB ID I use the same as I use for Appworld and it says authentication failure. If I say need one I also get an error. Anyone know what's going on? Thanks.