WhoNews 2.0 is now available at the App Store, so check for updates on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.

During the coming days I will migrate some of the current sites from news into their appropriate sections.

New screenshots are available on the site here and under the iPad section here

The changes are subtle to WhoNews 2.0 but significantly enhanced the app. Firstly you’ll notice the new content selector on the right of nav bar. It has three buttons (from left to right) News, Blogs and Podcasts. The Most Recent and Sites view both have this control and the view content will change accordingly. So sites like Kasterborous, Doctor Who News Page, Whovianet will appear under the News section, the likes of Life, Doctor Who and Combom move into the blog section along with Tachyon TV and naturally all podcasts move into the podcast section.

This should allow less prolific content generating sites, not to be swamped by other prolific sites and increase their visibility to Who fans.

WhoNews now has its own dematerialising police box which is displayed when news, blogs or podcast data is being downloaded. So the icon will come and go as you switch views to display the downloading state.

Also new in WhoNews 2.0 is the last updated indicator. If you pull down the Most Recent view it will display the time and date of the last update and allow you to force a download of the currently selected section (news, blogs or podcasts)

When you first launch WhoNews 2.0 you will be asked whether you want push notifications. Push notifications send you alerts of new articles only from sites listed under the News section. This is currently to prevent swamping users with lots of alerts. However if requested I may add push notifications for blogs and podcasts as well. You can configure whether you want sounds with alerts under your notification section in the iPhone/iPad Settings area under WhoNews. As WhoNews sends alerts 24 hours a day you might want to disable the sound...

I hope it has been worth the wait.

WhoNews is reviewed in the latest issue of Apps Magazine. The independent app reviewer awarded WhoNews a 4 out 5.

Apps Magazine says about WhoNews, “This App provides you with all the Doctor Who news you need in one place. From within WhoNews, you can quickly and easily access fan sites, cast blogs and even compare merchandise prices.”

It goes onto say, “…it’s crammed with more news and information than you can shake a sonic screwdriver at.”

The article finishes with, “All the Doctor Who News you’ll ever need. Time Lord geeks won’t complain”

The article reviewed v1.81 of the app and not the soon to be released v2.0 which you can read about here.

Issue #10 of Apps Magazine also reviewed DWO iWho app which received a 3 out 5 rating.

WhoNews 2.0 is now with Apple and just waiting for its release which I expect to be next week.

New screenshots are available on the site here and under the iPad section here

The changes are subtle to WhoNews 2.0 but significantly enhanced the app. Firstly you’ll notice the new content selector on the right of nav bar. It has three buttons (from left to right) News, Blogs and Podcasts. The Most Recent and Sites view both have this control and the view content will change accordingly. So sites like Kasterborous, Doctor Who News Page, Whovianet will appear under the News section, the likes of Life, Doctor Who and Combom move into the blog section along with Tachyon TV and naturally all podcasts move into the podcast section.

This should allow less prolific content generating sites, not to be swamped by other prolific sites and increase their visibility to Who fans.

WhoNews now has its own dematerialising police box which is displayed when news, blogs or podcast data is being downloaded. So the icon will come and go as you switch views to display the downloading state.

Also new in WhoNews 2.0 is the last updated indicator. If you pull down the Most Recent view it will display the time and date of the last update and allow you to force a download of the currently selected section (news, blogs or podcasts)

When you first launch WhoNews 2.0 you will be asked whether you want push notifications. Push notifications send you alerts of new articles only from sites listed under the News section. This is currently to prevent swamping users with lots of alerts. However if requested I may add push notifications for blogs and podcasts as well. You can configure whether you want sounds with alerts under your notification section in the iPhone/iPad Settings area under WhoNews. As WhoNews sends alerts 24 hours a day you might want to disable the sound...

WhoNews 2.0 will be with you soon and I hope it has been worth the wait.

The long awaited upgrade to version 2.0 of WhoNews will be released in the coming week for review by Apple. The new version easily trebles the number of news sources of the current version by including blogs and podcasts. The total number of sites scanned by the new WhoNews server currently exceeds 120, providing a constant feed of news, reviews and discussion.

Finally WhoNews gets push notifications which I’ve been testing with iOS5 and the new message centre. All I can say is what a great feature Apple has added and I’m finding WhoNews news alerts on my iPhone’s locked screen invaluable for keeping up to speed.

Once thing I’ve had to do is raise the price of WhoNews back to $1.99/£1.49 to help cover the cost of push notifications and the new improved servers.

Check back for more news soon...