New Google Reader For iPhone Makes Me More Productive
Yesterday Google released a new version of Google Reader for the iPhone with some much needed improvements. Remember this is a beta (hopefully it doesn’t stay this way for months and months like so many other web 2.0 properties do) but it seems to be incredibly stable and I haven’t run into any problems with it myself.
The new version is a lot like the list view in the desktop version, you can scan the titles of items and star them without having to reload the page. If you want to read an item just tap it and it will expand in place so you can read the item and tap the title again to have it collapse back in on itself. You never have to read list view to do all of your feed reading. One last thing that I think is great about it is that when you tap to see the original item it use to take you to Google’s make-pages-look-better-in-cell-phones server which on the iPhone isn’t the optimal way of doing things, now it takes you to the full web page.
Because it is still beta going to google.com/reader isn’t going to automatically take you there, instead you have to go to http://www.google.com/reader/i/ to use the new and improved version.
There are a couple of things I don’t like about it though, “mark all items as read” at the top of the page but “mark these items as read” at the bottom of the page seems very odd to me , who ever wants to mark all of your unread items in all of Google reader unread at one time? I also don’t like how the “Refresh” and “Feeds” buttons look, they seem a little too big for me, although it could just be the design of the button that makes it seem so large.
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