Monday, April 28, 2014 (15:30) | Bart Breij
Blendle is live from today. From now on, you do not pay for an entire newspaper or a magazine entirely, but do yourself an article you want to read on the desktop, iPad or iPhone. In February we had the scoop that Blendle as échte app on both Apple touch screens will appear. Now it’s ‘just’ a website on the iPhone and iPad – but one that is so good that you may be wondering what a real app yet adds
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In the same conversation we had with Blendle founder Marten Blankesteijn in February, has been entrusted to us that the application was not yet ready to use with browsers other than Google Chrome on the desktop. If you Blendle the releaseday visited in Safari on the iPad, you can read a message that the site can cause crashes the browser.
Typical interface
Still, you’re a busy further carelessly sweeping through the messages recommended by other users. Not down, but in the horizontal interface that characterizes Blendle. The articles are derived from various media who have logged into Blendle and often with a text shorter than a tweet recommended by users you follow. If your selection is too small, you can move from tab to Next Trending which indexes the most popular articles in the last hours. Or to Real, where to read all favorites of all users.
The iPhone is the only Apple-platform Blendle renounces the typical horizontal layout. You will find the recommended items among themselves, preceded by the announcement with a recognizable, narrower frame. Also on the Browse page, the newspapers and magazines from the range of Blendle among themselves. NRC, nrc.next, Volkskrant, Trouw, AD, Telegraph, Newspaper of the North, Leeuwarden Courant, BN De Stem, Parool, Freedom Netherlands, Elsevier, Quest, The Green Amsterdam, New Scientist, Dutch newspaper, Quote, Nieuwe Revu, Tubantia, Eindhoven Dagblad, Panorama, VIVA, and yes, the story show their cover to be. scrolled
read Delicious difficult headhunting
Regardless of whether you Blendle read on the iPhone, iPad or the desktop, scroll through newspapers and magazines do you always from left to right. The pages are displayed side by side, unfolded as a kind of fast PDF document you can not zoom. It is currently the Achilles heel of Blendle. You are browsing through the pages, but they are definitely on the iPhone as scaled-down, it’s hard to race. Cups Let alone headlines read.
Fortunately Blendle is there to find what. You have not read the article immediately when you tap it. First you see the price of a piece, ranging from 10 cents for each item in the NRCs to 89 cents for a long story of Elsevier. Adjust with extra pressure, the article opens and then you still have fifteen seconds to determine if you can find an article worth. Just enough time to explore at length and too little time to make. Really beginning to article Press an article early road, you will see that you have read and free press ‘Super Sympathetic’ before returning to the parent page.

Reading itself is in voortreffeklijk Blendle. The iPhone is the space from the screen edges to the text just right. The various media retain their preference of the fonts and color schemes that they are using themselves be printed, or in any case maintain the feeling of the medium. The Algemeen Dagblad has a more modern character than loyalty and also slim headstyle of Freedom Netherlands is reflected. Nowhere is it at the expense of the legibility. Not on the iPhone, in long pieces of text under differentiated by headings. And not on the iPad, in which the horizontal scrolling sometimes creates a ‘wall of text’ feeling. In the horizontal or lying on the
iPad is sometimes all you see text that orients restless when there is no between headings in the text. On the iPhone’s introduction image of a piece can better again. Opening Pictures are clear and sharp on both devices, but for example, the portrait of a columnist on the iPhone is fully stretched before you start reading. More than pressed between heads important for readability. But the overall readability is little to criticize. Subdivision in the columns and line spacing,
Whopper in payments
After registration you can count on 2.50 euro credit as a new user in Blendle. Enough for 25 articles of the NRC, 10 of the Volkskrant, five stories of Quest or a mixture of short and long articles in other media who deliberately make distinction. A subscription is not there, though we know that we are working on subscriptions that you can take on a particular medium within Blendle.
Where Blendle excels as a mobile website, the ease with which you pay widens the wallet. It’s not as simple as you enter the