This is how a typical Spb News channel list looks like. You can see channel names accompanied with icons taken from the channel source.

For your convenience, not-yet-read channels are shown in bold with a counter of not-yet-read articles.

You can use your hardware navigation buttons to move by the list and the "Action" key to open a channel.

Here you can see the process of the channel view update an your Smartphone. The updated channels are marked with a green check mark. The progress bar visualizes the update process. You can also see the amount of data transferred to your Windows Mobile device.

Even during the update process you can add new channels and read articles that have already been downloaded.

This is how a typical article list of a particular channel looks like. You can see channel names accompanied with images taken from the articles.

For your convenience, not-yet-read articles are shown in bold.

You can quickly jump to another channel by selecting one from the top-left menu or using your Smartphone "Left" and "Right" hardware navigation buttons.

You can also use your hardware navigation buttons to move by the article list and the "Action" key to open an article.

Articles in Spb News are shown in full text with images, text formatting and links. Maximum readability provided.

Adding new channel is very easy. You can use one of the listed ways to do it. Even if you use Spb News for the very first time you will easily add your favorite channel without any practice.

One of the easiest way to add many interesting channels is using the SPB News Online Catalog service.

When you choose to use the online catalog you will be provided with a most up-to-date version of the Online Channel Catalog provided by SPB Software. All channels are divided into several groups.

The online catalog shows channels in different languages. It's up to you to decide what languages you want to see.

When navigating the catalog please select as many channels as you wish. All of them will appear in your channel list.

The Online Catalog shows channels in different languages. It's up to you to decide what national channels you want to view in your online catalog.

A more advanced feature is possibility to add custom channels by providing their URL's. You should only find out the URL of an RSS/Atom feed channel and provide it to SPB News. The program will find and add this channel.

Spb News provides customizable user interface and behavior. You customize such things as hardware keys behavior, content location, network settings, content update and cleaning options.

Every particular channel can behave according to common channel properties or its own ones. For example it may make sense to keep the content of a scientific channel or a blog for a longer period than for a news line channel.