An opening panorama offers a choice between top stories (news), programs (video content), and menu (news by category). Tapping on a news headline or program thumbnail open up a combined video (top half of the screen) and pivot view (bottom half of the screen), with easy access to video playback (including a full screen landscape mode), read (text news and/or description), react (audience feedback), and explore (related news items).
The app and the content within is available in eleven languages: English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. This is one of the hallmarks of the pan-European news broadcaster and the organisation indicate that support for Arabic and Persian languages will be added shortly.
Euronews also say that the app will continue to be developed "over the coming months" with plans to add "live streaming of Euronews TV, news quiz, bookmarks for your favourite stories and a search engine". That should offer a good complement to the existing text and video-on-demand based news coverage.
Euronews has a tag line of the "most watched news channel in Europe". That's not really supported by independent statistics, with the like of BBC News, Sky News, and CNN making various claims to the the top spot (depending on your definitions), but it's certainly one of the bigger international broadcasters, so the app is a welcome arrival on Microsoft's mobile platform.
Windows Phone Store description:
The Euronews app offers:
- International, economic, cultural and scientific news videos
- Documentaries and Magazines on VOD
Euronews, the most watched news channel in Europe, covers international news in 13 languages. With 400 journalists from more than 30 nationalities, Euronews offers a unique, independent and totally impartial perspective on world events.
Euronews is a free download from the Windows Phone Store