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CBS News app review: your one-stop shop for the latest news delivered, quite literally, to your fingertips

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Introduction

Offering articles, audio, videos, and photos, this app brings breaking news to iPhone and iPad users who wish to stay abreast of breaking news at a local, national, or worldwide scale. Users receive minute-by-minute updates of current events in one fast and sleek-looking app.

There are some great features such as content-saving for future consumption, live news radio streaming and news shows condensed into more bite-sized formats. Unfortunately, there are some glaring stability issues with this app. It crashed a few times while I was using it, especially the video section.

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Content And Delivery

CBS News is a user-friendly, carefully designed app created by CBS Interactive. Aside from real-time breaking news and minute-by-minute coverage of live events, this app also brings to users some of the most popular CBS news programs such as CBS Evening News, 48 Hours, 60 Minutes, and CBS This Morning.

What I like about it is that it allows users to view all the content even in offline mode as long as they save articles, photos, and videos to their iPhone or iPad. I also really enjoyed the live radio feature which brings CBS Radio Live directly to my fingertips. I know it works because I checked that the content really is live!

 

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Functionality

Although some ads pop up now and then, this app is mostly clutter-free and minimalist. It allows for easy navigation and sharing of articles using Facebook, Twitter, and email.

The stability issues are a deal-breaker for me; it makes the app unusable for being the sole source of news because it is really frustrating to keep restarting my iPhone. It also goes unresponsive after viewing just one video, unless offline mode is used, which is unfortunate. I feel that CBS, being the big corporate conglomerate that it is, could have done with being a little more thorough with its pre-release testing.

 

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Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Enjoy real-time content at your fingertips
  • Receive CBS News shows such as 60 Minutes and Evening News
  • Download and save content for viewing on the go
  • Steam live audio from the CBS Radio News station

 

Cons

  • Stability issues cause the app to go unresponsive
  • More than one video cannot be played in online mode

 

Final Words

I would recommend CBS News to all iPhone and iPad users for the Live Radio stream and for viewing some content on long bus commutes, but all in all, it won't be my go-to source of information due to the stability issues.

 

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Neha Sinha

Neha has been writing and editing since 2010 and has been reviewing iOS apps since early 2014. She has lived in four different countries and loves having the world at her fingertips thanks to these awesome apps.