IEEE Spectrum Magazine
This application is for: •IEEE members who have already requested to receive their issue of Spectrum digitally •IEEE members who are not currently getting a digital/iPad magazine, but would like to
Members who are already digital subscribers will be asked for the email address where Spectrum is being delivered plus their Qmags password. Those who don’t remember their password can request to have it sent to their delivery email address.
Members who are not currently receiving Spectrum digitally will have an option to change their print subscription to digital/iPad at no charge (you will no longer receive print), or purchase a combination print PLUS digital subscription (you will receive both print and digital/iPad). Tap the “Don’t have a Qmags account” button.
IEEE Spectrum magazine is edited for electrical, electronic, computer engineering and scientific professionals identified in the high technology sectors of industry, business, government and education.
For help with this app please email [email protected] or visit http://www.qmags.com/help/
About Qmags
The IEEE Spectrum Magazine app is built and maintained by Qmags. Qmags provides digital technology solutions for a wide variety of publishers, associations and other content providers.
Category : Books & Reference
Reviews (27)
Poor implementation of a magazine newsstand and a PDF viewer. The worst is that the PDF magazines downloaded through this app are password protected, so only this app can be used to open them. Fortunately, the workaround is to login to your qmags account online and download non-password protected PDF versions that can be viewed with a better PDF viewer.
Love the magazine, but hate this app. Panning is arduous when zoomed - it jitters and jumps, typically requiring at least 2 tries to get it to stay where I need it. If it doesn't improve soon, I'll switch back to paper :(
Zooming is no issue, and every smartphone user is used to it. However, the page moves away/is not oriented with the finger 'OnTouch', and becomes difficult for the eye to re-focus. Fix this, and its gona be a very good smartphone app.
Clunky, doesn't properly download content that you expect and are entitled too. Sneaky method to avoid publishing costs. help requests brushed off with 'it should work, log out and back in again'. Highly dissatisfied and disappointed. Poor service, poorly engineered app.
The irony that the world's best engineering society would choose one of the world's worst apps. Constantly freezes, is slow when it doesn't, jiggery, looks like an elementary school kid designed it (ever heard of "material design"?) and on and on.
It used to lag a lot on my previous phone and I thought it was an issue with my phone but its not the case , it lags like hell on my new LG G2 . Can't believe this is from the worlds largest professional organization.
A buch of useless people running ieee. This app is a clear reflection of their uselessness. last update was in 2013. This app is a joke
It lags and it's not very smooth when moving from a page to another. Come on Engineers we could do better than this.
To the developers, please stop using this custom app nonsense and just use the newsstand. Your app is awful!
Kill this app, and let us get Spectrum through Google newsstand
It is not compatible with Android 5.x. Please fix and update it.
it was helpful but it had stopped updating the issues since march 2016... what's happening? is there a new version of this app?
Nothing but a pdf of the mag. I thought IEEE was a technical organization?!?
Easy to use
it can be improved
For technocrats
Frustrating
This is only for pads. The page size is exactly the same as the printed magazine. The text is illegible on phone. It should adopt a format that could reflow, such as .epub or .mobi.
Never had an issue with the app, definitely functional and the ability to click on a topic on the TOC and get to the page is awesome. User interface seems off though
I have a 7 inch tablet so I need to zoom in and scroll around to read articles. With this glorified PDF reader, scrolling and zooming are jerky and slow. This makes reading an article a challenge.
I have not updated to the latest version, nor will I as long as it requires access to my phone. I just want to read articles, and cannot see any legitimate reason a magazine reading app would need access to my phone.
Should be downloaded by IEEE member
Bad. Insulting even.
Retrieve running apps? Phone state? Why?
The latest release doesn't work. Try to start it and I get an "Error installing Application". On a 7-inch Nexus 7, the magazine is readable enough. I can zoom to view three columns side by side. I would not expect to read Spectrum, or any other magazine, on a phone. Maybe that is the problem for those who don't like this app. It is not, though, the easiest publication to navigate from page to page. It would probably be easier to download the PDF version and transfer that to my tablet. Reasonable start that does not seem to be developing as quickly as you would expect, especially given the comments here.
Broken after update fixed with latest ! Thank you! Nexus 10.
The app now works, but still not comparable to Google Play Newstand or iBooks on an iPad. Zooming is laggy, turning pages is jittery, and the skeumorphic design taken from iBooks looks very out of place on Android. Not to mention the Android 2.1 loading bars are very put of place if you are running Jelly Bean. The app does not provide any more value than a PDF reader would. It is pretty obvious that this was made by some shoddy outsourcing firm.