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Zinio for the iPad 3 Preview

Zinio intends on taking advantage of the new iPad 3 Retina display with an update to its application in the App Store! The next installment will put the version number at 2.2.2 and it packs a ton of enhancements to give you a great magazine experience.

Apple first approached Zinio when it was a few months away from launching its initial iPad. Over the years the magazine company has been one of the most downloaded apps ever and it is mainly due to their interactive touchscreen technology and content partners.

Zinio intends on optimizing their new iPad apps to take advantage of the new high resolution Retina display found in the iPad 3. The company decided to recut the graphical icons on the app container. This makes the entire GUI and UI look very good. In talking with Zinio, we had wondered what aspect of their pipeline would change with the addition of higher resolution magazines in its ecosystem. It seems that many of the magazines sent over to them already are in fairly high quality and this will ensure that if you love the digital magazine experience you will want to either download it for the first time or upgrade it very soon.

The new Zinio app has been submitted to the Apple App Store and it should be approved within a few days. Below is a preview of of the new interface and a taste of how magazines will look on your iPad 3.

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Hopefully 2.2.2 will fixed the slowness on the iPad 3, at this point the application as become useless. my original ipad 1 is faster at loading pages. It takes really long for pages to become clear on the ipad 3. Also when loading the applicaiton the interface does not load in Hight rezolution. Only when you open a magazine and close, that the interface become clear.
But the most importent bug is how slow the text and images take to become clear. I understand the impotence of realsing day 1, but Quality control is more importent, until it’s fixed, I will not renew or buy new subscription… may start using News Stand where the magazine loads a lot quicker.
mike
Do not count seriously on zinio, they are really bad with their customers relationship.
I had few thousand magazines, enrolled in last 7 years, but in one moment, two mounts ago, probably because I tried to take any link for free sponsored books and magazines, they decided to shut down my account, without any notice and didn’t replay on my questions.
I was able to create “new” account, with old username/password, but my library was empty; all my magazines disappeared
Also quality of images are so poor, and DRM are so bad (DRM is reason for slow pages loading), you can not copy text, can not print pages from some magazines. Maybe you can use this app for some daily newspaper, to read on your tablet, phone, for books or magazines, but I strongly not recommended for books and magazines.

Zinio for the iPad 3 Preview

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