Windows Phone App Review - Baseball NOW

Baseball NOW for Windows Phone

While baseball is approaching it's summer break, there is a new app on the Windows Phone Market place to help y'all keep track of the 2d half of the season. Baseball game Now brings all the standings, stats and scores to your Windows Phone in a rather overnice packet.

The layout of Baseball NOW is a series of tiles that will permit you lot access the various pages of Baseball Now. When you lot commencement launch Baseball NOW you'll need to set your favorite team past borer the "prepare fave" tile. One time set, your "fave" tile volition display the team logo.

Baseball NOW supports push notifications for scores every ten minutes and has three animated wallpaper backgrounds to choose from. Information technology is a nice app for keeping up with Major League Baseball scores and stats but a petty defective on the news side.

Baseball NOW

Baseball NOW'south layout slightly resembles Windows Phone eight past using smaller, quarter sized tiles for the settings, help, Marketplace rating, and access to Baseball NOW tweets. The remaining tiles fall are:

Fave Tile: Once set the Fave Tile sends you to news items related to your favorite team. You lot can likewise see the overall tape of the team simply yous don't have admission to stats, scores, and schedules. If at anytime you need to change your squad, only tap the next "Edit Fave" tile.

Scores Tile: This tile sends you to the MLB scores listed by date. You can refresh the scores with the "refresh" button at the bottom of the screen. Scores can be scanned by date past the directional arrows at the top of the screen. Tapping on a game listing will pull upward the game's box score and games tin can be pinned to your start screen.

Standings Tile: Only put, this tile volition display the Major League Baseball standings cleaved down by League and Division.

Stats Tile: Baseball game At present'southward Stats Tiles will pull up the Major League stats for diverse categories ranging from ERA leaders to Home Run leaders. Stats are displayed one category at a time and from either the AL or NL leagues. Tap the League or Stat bar to choose your poisonous substance.

News Tile: Some other simple and straight forward tile that pulls up news stories for Major League Baseball. The downside to the news stories (and information technology's the same with your Fave Tile) is that the news story is merely the headline with a command push button to send you to Net Explorer for the full story. The abridged news does help avoid long load times inside the app but some may detect information technology a pain to take to get out the app repeatedly to read the full news story.

You also have a Wallpaper Tile that will let you set the background image. Yous have three choices that are all ballpark oriented. Settings for Baseball At present allow you to turn on/off push button notifications and edit your favorite team.

Baseball NOW

Overall, I liked Baseball At present as a way to keep up with scores, stats, schedules and standings. Across that, the app comes up a little short. It would accept been nice to have access to team stats and histrion profiles from your Fave Tile. Too,Baseball At present isn't the best app for news stories simply considering you're bouncing back and forth between the app and Cyberspace Explorer way too much. On the plus side, the push notifications to proceed yous up to date on scores is a really nice touch.

Baseball At present is a free, advertisement-supported app that yous can find here at the Windows Telephone Market place.

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