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Read Metro news on Symbian S60

While browsing on Ovi store application I found an interesting application that I think a lot of people would like on their Symbian phones. It's a free application called Metro and it's for reading Metro news, both online and offline. I've got a Nokia 5800 which has the S60 5th Edition, I don't know if there is a version for the 3rd Edition.

After a quick test I can confirm that it works great. You can even change to eight different languages, and Swedish is just the one I needed. There are the startpage and other categories like news, sports, fashion, etc. Everytime a category is chosen all the news will be downloaded, ready to be viewed for offline. In the categories page only the headlines are displayed and by clicking on them the whole article will be shown. I was surprised to know there was such an amazing application. I mean now I won't have to worry not getting a newspaper on the bus or in town, I always have my phone with me. Let me give you a scenario of using the application:

I wake up early in the morning and eat a healthy breakfast consisting of breads with cheese, ham and butter. I then go and brush my teeth. Afterwards I go and change my clothes preparing to go to school. Since I still have some time I might as well open my Metro application on my mobile and open all the categories to download all the latest articles. This won't take more than 2 minutes. After taking a ride with my bike to the bus stop I might as well read some news on my mobile while waiting. When the bus comes and I've sat down I can relax myself and just read the news on my phone, smiling everytime someone walks into the bus and takes a Metro newspaper, man that is so 90s.

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