As a big fan of the iPhone and sports I thought it would be appropriate to do my first review on a sports application for the iPhone. The application I have chosen is called Eurosport.
Let’s start with the technical bit. The seller is Eurosport SA. At the time of writing this review the latest version was 1.3 which was updated on the 09 Feb 2010. The application is compatible with the iPhone & iPod Touch. It requires you have OS 2.2 or later, with the current version having been tested for OS 3.0. It is available in 10 different languages and is offered as a free download.
This app is very well laid out and has an amazing amount of information to deliver. Most sport applications that I have come across are sport specific, i.e. you get and application for Soccer news, then another one for Formula 1 racing etc. However the Eurosport application covers 13 different sports including Football, Basketball, Motor sports, Tennis, Rugby, Ice Hockey to name a few.
Like all applications it has the standard button bar at the bottom of the screen with 5 buttons. Its initial default setting includes the “All Sports” button, 3 other sports buttons and finally the “More...” button. This more button works identically to the one in the iPod application, click it and a screen appears with a list of alternative buttons to use for the customisation of your button bar for quick access to your favourite sports.
At the top of the screen there are 4 different options for viewing information on your preferred sport. Firstly there is Headlines. This is really self explanatory; it gives you all the main headline news for your selected sport. The next option is In Brief, this gives you all the news stories available for your chosen sport. They are listed with just the story headline with the newest story on top. The next option for you viewing pleasure is the Live option, and it is here that you can view live scores, the scores of games that have finished and a list of upcoming live games. The final category is Results and again this is self explanatory.
This application does fall short in certain areas the main one being the absence of some popular sports such as Golf, which I believe is available on the application in Spain but not in the UK or Ireland. There is also no link to forums that a lot of other sports application have. With all that in mind if you are a sports fan then this is one application you should have on you apple device.
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