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by Al Sacco

10 Best Android Tablet Apps for News Junkies

News
Sep 9, 20116 mins
InternetSmall and Medium BusinessTablets

CIO.com's gadget guru Al Sacco spotlights 10 great applications for your Android tablet that will keep you up to date on news, sports, entertainment, stocks and much more. These apps look great and perform even better--and most are free.

The technology world is wild for tablets these days. Personally, I’m not quite as enthusiastic about them as everyone else. (Read my reasons why here.) I will say that tablets are particularly well suited for two purposes: leisurely surfing the Web; and e-reading. So I made it a point to find the best applications that combine these two functionalities.

Here are my favorite news and information applications for Google Android tablets, the majority of which are designed specifically for tablets and optimized for the slate experience. Even better: Most of these Android tablet apps are freethough you may have to subscribe to some publications for unlimited access to content.

(Note: I downloaded and tested all of these applications on Samsung’s Galaxy 10.1 running Google’s Honeycomb OS v3.1. Check the Android Market links provided with each app for device-compatibility listings.)

Read It Later for Android

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Read It Later is a “digital bookmarking” service of sorts, or a “DVR for the Web,” as one New York Times scribe put it. Unlike the other apps spotlighted here, it’s not tablet specific, either—and that’s a good thing. The value in Read It Later is that you can use it on any computer or mobile device, even some apps—including Pulse News—to save online content for future reading. The app works without a Web connection, it’s easy to use, and Read It Later remembers your scroll position in stories so you can pick up reading wherever you left off.

Download Read It Later Free from the Android Market

TIME Mobile for Android

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The free TIME Mobile app for Android isn’t just for tablets, but it delivers all of TIME.com’s digital news and opinion content in easy-to-read form, from site and magazine sections including U.S., World, Healthland, Techland, Newsfeed, Politics, Swampland, The Page, Business, Arts, Quotes of the Day, Tuned In, and Travel. And users also have access to TIME’s blogs, photo galleries and the popular “top 100” and best and worst “Lists.”

Download TIME Mobile for free from the Android Market

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