The Birmingham News
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Category : News & Magazines
Reviews (17)
Does not provide daily updates. Last day of digital editions is 13 days ago.
The app makes it quick and easy to navigate the paper.
i would like to see the weather almanac and the comic, dear abby abd dr. wallace.
Worked fine at one point. I don't know if there was an update, but now all it does is flash the sign in screen repeatedly. I can't even use it now.
Great highlights in easy-to-use reader environment. Love that it's daily in the afternoon when most others send in the a.m.
E-edition is supposed to be free to print subscribers. But there is no way to register as a print subscriber, only a login for existing e-subscribers. STUPID. I have told one News staff member I don't think there will be a paper in 5 years.
As most have already said, it's close to useless as is.
Downloading one issue took forever. Screen refresh is ridiculous.
The application is unstable and crashes frequently when browsing news. It needs improvement .
A joke for an app! Close to useless!
In 30 seconds this app drove me away! Why on earth would you make a Newspaper app download a high quality image of each page!? Way to make loading a page horribly slow! I was expecting more of an RSS feed style app. Instead you get arrows to flip through terribly slow images of the paper. Also, my keyboard covers the password box on the login page. Would be nice to be able to scroll down to it instead of having to remove the keyboard and tap the box.
Actually this app is quite a bit worse than useless. After uninstall leaves all of the aforementioned huge page files in internal memory spread through several folders. You have to slog through your files to remove them all.
Needs a lot of work. Hoped this was an option with print disappearing.
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It hardly ever works!
Won't work....crashes on Nexus 7.
NOT HAPPY WITH NEW APP. The new 2020 software release has very low screen resolution compared with Classic version, especially comic section. I like to do a screen capture of daily comics for reading later and can longer do that without extra screen captures. This feature in the Classic version worked great but now has other problems which appeared after the new software was released.