The app will poll for new articles at whatever interval you choose, placing the latest info on the left-hand side of the screen. Pulse delivers each source in a mosaic-like fashion, with each feed getting its own row. What's more, a search allows you to find content based on keywords and Web sites, and you can import feeds you already track from Google Reader. There are, of course, preset featured sources such as Flickr, YouTube, Digg, and more. Should you opt to add additional feeds, you can select from more than a dozen categories stocked with a variety of sources. You will notice that upon opening the app, there are a handful of selected feeds that you can keep or delete. Mosaic tiles deliver your news in a friendly fashion.

After more than 500,000 downloads, the smartphone version is definitely popular and something to use should you not have an Android 3.0 tablet just yet. I should point out that for the sake of this review, I will be referring to the latest release (1.9.5), written with Honeycomb in mind. But it's the presentation of your articles that really sells this app.

In short, Pulse is an RSS feed reader for Android. And thanks to news and magazine apps such as Pulse, I'm consuming more information and becoming more productive. Indeed, I've noticed that my tablet user experience on the Xoom is completely different from what it was on a Galaxy Tab. One such title, Pulse News Reader, is a shining example of how gorgeous these new OS 3.0 apps truly are. Currently there are only a handful of applications in the Android Market that have been written specifically for Honeycomb.

Rss feed reader app