Facebook today unveiled Paper, a new app from its Creative Labs that
aims to take the Facebook mobile experience in a completely new
direction. Paper is Facebook mixed with bouts of Flipboard and
Google Currents. It's a newspaper app, that not only feeds you your
daily dose of social munchies from Facebook, but also grabs
headlines and stories from your favorite publications.
headlines and stories from your favorite publications.
The app has a sleek
and elegant design, with each section having a main screen with a cover
photo at the top, and a row of content along the bottom which the reader
can pull up and read. Notifications from Facebook, such as friend
requests and messages, is shown at the top right-hand corner of the
screen.
Users can also use it as a normal, albeit more stylish,
Facebook app for posting status updates, sharing photos, commenting or
'liking', making the original Facebook app redundant.
Paper is set to launch in the US on February 3 for iOS users. No word on a worldwide release, or an Android version.