Flipboard: Your Social News Magazine

by Flipboard, Inc

Product Details

• ASIN: B008CPZNL6
• Original Release Date: June 19, 2012
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 13, 2012
Rated: All Ages This app may include dynamic content. What's this?

All Ages

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for all users and contains no objectionable content or advertisements.




Guidance Suggested

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for most users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, infrequent or mild references to violence, profanity, or crude themes, or other content not suitable for all ages.







Mature

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for mature users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, mild sexual and suggestive themes, nudity within medical, informational, or artistic contexts, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for mature audiences.







Adult

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for adults. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, sexual and suggestive themes, nudity, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for adult audiences.



This application contains content that is downloading real-time, based on inputs from the user or developer. The maturity rating associated with this application pertains only to the static elements of the application and does not cover any dynamic information (e.g. websites, friend postings, tweets). Dynamic content is defined as any content that may change within the application. Content can include animations, video or audio.
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (360 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #588 Free in Appstore for Android (See Top 100 Free in Appstore for Android)
  • #5 in Appstore for Android > News & Magazines > Magazines

Product Features

• Be amazed by what you see when everything people are sharing, collecting, and publishing in every moment comes together in a single place.
• Search for anything--people, topics, hashtags, blogs, your favorite sites--and flip through articles, updates, photos, and videos in a beautiful magazine format.
• Connect Flipboard to 12 social networks, streamlining your reading and activities like commenting, liking, and sharing. Services include Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, YouTube, Google Reader, LinkedIn, Flickr, 500px, Sina Weibo, and Renren.
• Get a quick dose of what's happening now in Cover Stories, a constantly updated selection of articles, photos, and videos shared by your friends.
• Save anything to read later using Instapaper, Pocket, and Readability.
• Create a Flipboard account to access your favorite content and social networks on different or shared devices.

Technical Details

• Size: 4.9MB
• Version: 1.9.19
• Developed By: Flipboard, Inc (Privacy Policy )
• Application Permissions: (Help me understand what permissions mean)
  • Open network sockets
  • Write to external storage
  • Access the list of accounts in the Accounts Service
  • Access information about networks
  • PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming
  • com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE
• Minimum Operating System: Android 2.2
• Approximate Download Time: Less than 1 minute

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

248 of 282 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Flipboard and the Kindle Fire June 24, 2012

By E.SanMiguel

Amazon Verified Purchase

Fell in love with Flipboard when helping my mother set up her iPad last year. Tried Pulse, Feedly and others and while they are all good it wasn't quite the same (although keep checking them out because they continue to make improvements). I had sideloaded the Flipboard beta for Android and it worked well, but the full Flipboard app is so much better. Google Reader integration worked immediately. This is a major plus since the Kindle Fire does not allow direct connection to Google apps forcing you to go through the Web browser. Hope they change that soon so I can use Google Calendar to sync my work calendar.

Tried to add Twitter and Google+ and had some difficulties at first but it has finally linked to my Flipboard account so all is well. If you have trouble, keep trying. Twitter linked after a couple attempts but it took a couple days before I had success with Google+ and it looks good on the Kindle Fire.

While I am not a frequent Twitter user (maybe once every couple months) that will change with the integration to Flipboard. Why? Because by using Twitter Lists you can create a group of items to view. For example, I have a Twitter list called Authors and can view that list on Flipboard to read posts by some of my favorite authors for book signings, book releases, general commentary, etc.

With Flipboard I will probably revert to my news junkie phase. It is a much easier and cleaner way to obtain national and international news since the TV "news" channels turned me off several years ago.

While the Flipboard app deserves 5 stars I am only giving it 4 stars because of what I believe are some of the Kindle Fire limitations. Updating the feeds can take a while and it does freeze on occasion (but less than the beta version).

146 of 176 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful. My new favorite app on my Kindle. June 22, 2012

By JoAnn

Amazon Verified Purchase

Nicely done. It's the first app that integrates all my news and social streams including google+. One improvement I might recommend is having a single login for all Google feeds - Plus, Reader, and You Tube (adding Picasa would be huge btw). Great stuff!

49 of 57 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Very nice, but one fatal problem June 28, 2012

By A Customer

I wish I could read all of my news like this. Easy pleasant interface, text and images formatted to actually read, and of course the fun little flipper mechanism.

Unfortunately, this news reader is too stupid to remember what you are reading. Imagine that you are happily reading some neatly-formatted article, and you get an email. Oh look, my friend sent me a cat video. I think I will stop reading this article containing 12 photography tips and watch the video. OK, that was cute, now I will continue reading... BAM! Flipboard has reset itself to the home page.

Flipboard will remember your location only for as long as it remains actively running. If it has to start up, everything is lost. Unlike Opera Mini (browser) and Pulse (similar to Flipboard), Flipboard does not keep track of your current position to recall it when you open it again. You can bookmark pages, save them, or open them in a real browser, but you would have to manually save or bookmark everything you are reading, and then clean up your bookmarks later so your bookmark list does get cluttered.

That one failure makes Flipboard nothing more than an amusing way to kill leisure time, though it could have been a serious main news reader for people who actually like to read entire articles.