You can add new feeds by searching for a feed or browsing a list of featured ones. You can also add an RSS feed directly by entering the URL. Newsroom integrates perfectly with the notification system and prompts you when new articles come in. There’s no way to read all new articles in one go, you’ll need to visit each page and tap on the icons with new numbers on them for each new article. Overall, this is a powerful and polished News and RSS reader with full-article support (not just snippets) and custom formatting that will almost certainly fulfill all your News browsing needs on the Palm Pre.

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.

You can search the AP news service right from within the app. The search feature is available with a single tap from every screen on the app and is reasonably quick and responsive. I would have liked to see the ability to search within a given news story, but that functionality is not offered yet. The breadth of member services offering feeds into this app easily makes this app more useful than the New York Times app previously reviewed. This is a true News junkie’s app.

You can set certain teams as your favorites, which allows one-click access to the teams data from the app’s home page, as well as basic scores and statistics available right from the app home screen. The app offers a balanced combination of baseball statistics and news, and there’s really nothing missing from the application in terms of features. The design could do with some improvement and maybe we’ll see updates that address this issue.

Similarly, content isn’t much different from simply browsing the mobile web version. What I would have liked to see is options to automatically refresh or pull the latest feeds from the NYT, or at least have some sort of notifications appear that provides information on breaking news. For news junkies, this doesn’t really cut it. For the casual news reader checking in every few hours, it works pretty well. If you enjoy logically separating your news from your browsing, this is definitely very useful.