Facebook launches Paper - Adresseavisen

As teknologia.no wrote last week there have been rumors about a new Facebook application called Paper.

It was the site Re / code who first wrote about the application, which supposedly was to be a sort of Flipboard competitor, writes teknologia.no.

Flipboard is an application for mobile devices that allows you to collect news from a variety of sources and have them presented as a magazine. The service has since 2010 been downloaded over 90 million times and is a very popular application, largely because of a visually elegant interface.

The Verge: – Paper replace Facebook’s hovedapp

Now Re / code their speculation proved to be true. Facebook has in fact announced a brand new mobile application called Paper. This is an application that allows you to get news presented in a magazine format, but not only that: Paper also shows updates from news stream.

According to technology website The Verge, Paper can almost replace Facebook’s default application.

– Once you’ve tried it, you will probably never open Facebooks standardapp again. Although not copy every single feature that Facebook’s hovedapp has, Paper contains enough to fill most of the needs that people have. And the (Paper) is simply much, much better, writes The Guardian.

Away with buttons – in with swiping

Facebook has released an introductory video (see bottom of the case) where we see Paper used, and here there are several features to grab in. Firstly, we see that the paper makes use of swiping a much greater extent than Facebook’s hovedapp. There are not many buttons – instead swipe one finger to navigate around.

The second most obvious thing to mention is of course the interface. Here is the content of focus, especially photos. One cool feature is that you can tilt the phone to see you around photos. This function calls the Facebook “Ken turns.”

Photo: Paper / Facebook / Vimeo

Unlike Facebook’s hovedapp scroll down not in your power – here is more like a newspaper – you scroll sideways. This is clearly to give the magazine feel. Mark Zückerberg’ve on several occasions expressed that Facebook is a kind personalized newspaper.

You can also write status updates, share photos and links in the Paper. One difference from Facebook’s main applications is however that this will be a visually prettier and more intuitive process.

In USA

However, there are a few bad news on paper. Firstly, it seems that Facebook has just developed an iPhone version. Something strange – after all we live in 2014 and Android’ve got a strong position in the mobile market. And what about Windows Phone? Boring is also there in the first place just seems to be launched in the United States. Paper launches 3 February.

It will definitely expand to more platforms and land eventually, but when it happens, just speculation.