BBC News Mobile and WeatherLive get updates with UI changes

BBC News Mobile v2.9

Cipher like a few solid updates for some of our favorite apps on Windows Phone. Starting time upward is BBC News Mobile. We mentioned a few weeks ago they had a new beta version in the works and now that update has gone live. Changes include mostly how the app looks and speed:

Background Cache Service
Better Live Tiles
Faster Loading
Reworked GUI
Picture quality improvement

Definitely some nice improvements though some bugs did go into v2.ix so expect a fix-update before long to accost those. You can read about those issues hither. Pick upward BBC News Mobile v2.9 here in the Market place for free.

WeatherLive

WeatherLive has also been bumped to 3.5 with a big change to UI and information layout. It still has nonetheless information, including hourly, trends, moon phases, radar, maps and web cams, merely you may have missed them in earlier versions due to existence buried within the carte du jour system.

Now, yous tin can just swipe left-correct and go to each section individually, resulting in a much more than fluid interface. It is certainly more Metro with this panoramic view though information technology does veer a petty from some Metro standards (font size). Still, nosotros like the alter. Grab WeatherLive hither for $1.49 or free trial.

QR codes for both later on the jump...

QR: BBC News Mobile QR: WeatherLive

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