Along with the anouncement released of PlayBook tablet, which took place on July, 7 2011, the media giant Kompas displays Kompas.com for BlackBerry PlayBook which of course can be downloaded for free. Previously for BlackBerry PlayBook, Kompas already featured Editor’s Choice which is a collection of writings curate by Kompas Editor.
As quoted by Kompas Tekno, Edi Taslim, as Business General Manager of Kompas.com, stating the reason of making this application, “Why do we need to make a Kompas.com application tablet version? Because we want to provide an alternative to tablet users in accessing Kompas.com in a convenient, intuitive, and utilize the features and character of the tablet device like the BlackBerry Playbook. ”
In the display from the application version, there are not much a different than we are used to access via the web. All information from all the rubrics and canals that are available in Kompas.com from the canal property, Tekno, Automotive, Entertainment, Football, Health, and Female, as well as the rubric of National, International, Regional, Megapolitan, Business Finance, Sports, Science, Travel, Oasis , Education and News in English.
What different of course is the experience in using a tablet. “To see the articles that are available with just tablet-style navigation, the touch and swipe, do not have to move from one page to another as if accessing Kompas.com directly from a browser. Besides that, the “Kompas.com for Playbook” application also supports the accelerometer feature so that users can read news and articles in portrait or landscape mode, ” said Taslim.
There is no comment of what technology is used to create these applications, while previously for the Editor’s Choice, Kompas using Adobe AIR which is supported by the Playbook. From the 13 reviews that have been entered in the BlackBerry App World, this application seems to get a positive response. From a number of major media in the homeland, Kompas seems to be always a step a head in digital innovation.
