Google Currents Love!

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Just downloaded Google Currents for the market and its really a great application. If you don't know what it is, it's a news/magazine application with tons of different publishers and a beautiful interface. If you haven't checked it out yet I would definitely recommend it!!!

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I love Google currents. I have been using it since the first update when they fixed the horrid battery drain. Since then it is a great app. I rank it right up there with Pocket (Formerly read it later)

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Originally Posted by R0CKSTAR3N3RGY

Just downloaded Google Currents for the market and its really a great application. If you don't know what it is, it's a news/magazine application with tons of different publishers and a beautiful interface. If you haven't checked it out yet I would definitely recommend it!!!

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Love GC. Unfortunately it runs in the background an awful lot.

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Prefer Flipboard

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I definitely prefer Flipboard to Currents both because of it being better about not running in the background and because its UI is MUCH cleaner and snappier. Flipboard is by far the best aggregate news application I've ever found...

Check it out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...51bGwsMSwyLDNd

Originally Posted by SuperSwagSauce

Love GC. Unfortunately it runs in the background an awful lot.

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That's why I turn off the syncing.

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I like currents mainly for the interface. The newest version seems to be a lot better about running all the time. I have it set to sync and I still get great battery and performance.

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If only they could truly offer full reader integration

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Google currents, visually, offer a better reading view of articles (although on certain blogs, it skips pages), I'm disappointed that it doesn't offer a complete Google experience in terms of it's ability to pull from your Reader account. I use Google Reader for all my reading content and just don't understand why Google would release a product that doesn't do what the other apps do - syncing of read and starred articles because I don't like having to go into the Reader app itself or on the web and click "mark all as read."

Flipboard on the other hand, does have a seamless Reader integration system but, I don't like how it aggregates all of the reader items into one feed. I have a time period set for when I read certain articles (news in the morning, tech news in the mid-afternoon, etc.) it's only effective if you don't have a lot of sources in your reader account. Most of the sites offered by Flip I have in my Reader account so separately adding them is redundant.

If only one of the two can make that happen, I'm stuck with the default Reader app. *Sigh*

But if you don't use Google Reader, then either one is excellent, but I favor Flip because it's tad bit faster in performance compared to Currents and it's better integrated read it later services (I use Pocket).

I've had it pull from my reader since I've had it. Under add subscriptions at the bottom of the categories is Google reader. When you do into that category it shows all your reader feeds. Or it used too. I've used it for a long time and did that when I first installed it.


Edit. Just checked, it's still there.

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love it too,but a little bit laggy dont know why in 4.1


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I have used currents since its inception and love it. When flipboard came out I thought I would see what all the rage was so I got it. I put a lit of the same feeds on it as I get on currents and although it is pretty and all that, I find that flipboard will nor get every story from a site that currents gets. When I check gizmodo or cnet or space.com on both readers, flipboard will be missing several articles that currents picks up.