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FreeNews turns your phone into your own personal newspaper, weather station, sports announcer, and blog reader, all rolled into one. With FreeNews, you don't surf news websites, you get all the information you want in one place - a customizable homepage for your mobile phone.

FreeNews is an internet based service that quickly and efficiently puts only the latest information onto your mobile phone, making it available to you immediately.

Use FreeNews to keep up to date on what's happening in your world while on the subway, waiting for a meeting, even on an airplane!

FreeNews Features:

Easy Content Selection

• RSS support - Add any RSS or Atom feed - RSS 0.9, 0.91, 0.92, 1.0, or 2.0
• Look for the RSS logo on your favourite websites
• Create custom news feeds based on keywords
• Easily search for and add RSS feeds
• Web-based configuration
• Easy content selection from pick list of popular feeds
• Entry of any RSS feed directly
• Creation of custom news feeds based on keywords.
• Creation of categories to organize feeds.
• Import/Exports OPML
• Phone-based configuration
• Allows easy addition or removal of any feeds
• Allows easy creation of custom keyword feeds based on a word or phrase.
• Allows creation of custom news feeds based on keywords.

Fast Download

• Only sends down new articles, saving you money on data services
• All information sent to the phone is compressed in size by up to 50%
• Headlines and summaries are cached by our service, ready for download when you are
• View web page articles instantly via the built-in, text-only browser

Easy Navigation

• See headlines and summaries for all your news
• Easily view the full story by the click of a button.
• Navigate intuitively using the arrow keys on your phone
• Organize your news sources into categories or subcategories

Send articles to friends

• Send article links and your comments to friends and co-workers via email directly from your phone.
• Address book with nicknames for easy name entry when you're on the go

Flexible views

• View articles by:
• Category
• Organize your feeds by topic area
• Feed
• Organize your feeds by news source
• Articles
• See all articles from all sources in a single view
• Choose the colours themes and font sizes you prefer
• Split view shows headlines on top and article summary on bottom

Create custom News items based on topics

• Get news based on topics of interest-company, product, place or person
• No need to wade through lots of uninteresting stories-get to the news you care about...Fast!

Device Independent

• J2ME application is built to run on all newer Java phones
• MIDP 1.0 and 2.0 Java phones
• These include all newer GSM phones:
• Nokia
• Motorola
• Sony Ericsson
• LG
• Samsung
• Sanyo
• Siemens
• Sharp
• Plus many more- we want FreeNews on your phone, so try it.
• Symbian phones
• Palm OS devices (Java VM required)
• Blackberry devices
• Windows Mobile and CE (Java VM required)