An official app, from Condé Nast Digital, for Wired UK is now available in the Windows Phone Store. The app gives easy access to the latest news and review content from the Wired UK website. Essentially the app is a basic RSS reader, locked to the Wired UK feeds, but it's been nicely implemented and, if you are a fan of Wired, it's a fast and painless way to get your daily dose of the tech world whilst on the go.

New and reviews can be shared via social networks, but only once you've logged into Facebook or Twitter within the app. A number of apps do this, and it seems rather unnecessary when it's easy to integrate with Windows Phone built in sharing support. 

The apps opening panorama has three sections, one for news, one for reviews and one for Twitter. The last of these list the latest tweet from the WiredUK account, but it's currently rather superfluous as the majority of tweets are pointing to stories that are available within the app itself. That's not really the fault of the app, but rather a reflection of the way Wired UK, quite reasonably, is using Twitter as a broadcast mechanism for its content.

The content pages use an embedded web control, which means links within the story can easily be followed, but these open in app itself, which isn't really ideal. On the plus side the use of the web control does mean that basic formatting it supported, making the most of Wired UK's high quality content.

Condé Nast Digital has two existing app for its Vogue and Glamour magazine. If you read either of these titles, then you may want to check them out. They're similar in style to the Wired News app, but obviously have a different content focus.

Windows Phone Store description:

The Wired.co.uk news you care about, now available to pockets everywhere! The Wired News app brings up-to-the-minute coverage of the latest technology, science, culture and business news directly to your phone - no matter where you are.

Wired News can be downloaded from the Windows Phone Store for free.