The Forbes application for the Palm Pre is a fantastic business and finance news source app and the first Palm Pre app to offer offline syncing that lets you download articles for reading on a flight or metro where there’s no signal or WiFi. This app lets you see articles from all major categories on Forbes and also presents articles ranked by popularity, freshness, and most emailed. An area near the top of the app just below the menu bar is dedicated to relevant Forbes-related advertising. Clicking on the ad will launch the browser without disturbing your current place in the Forbes app.
You can track your financial portfolio and the major world indices through this app as well. The really thoughtful and impressive feature is the offline sync. If you are entering an area with no cellular or WiFi reception, you can simply download all the current articles and your stocks portfolio data to your Pre and read and follow the articles completely offline. The download process is smooth and fast and worked like a charm. With this capability, Forbes on the Palm Pre leaps well beyond the other News apps on the App Catalog at present. Forbes brings both current news and in-depth analysis so you won’t be left wanting for more with this app. Forbes is a must-download News application for the Palm Pre.
