In a nutshell...

Nothing whatsoever to do with chickens, eggs (or which came first), this is a slick little RSS reader that works on most Noks. Its party piece is letting you blister through heaps of online headlines from stacks of sites without going crazy or cross-eyed.

Judgement time!

Dead simple to suck straight to your handset, FreeRange immediately impresses with its fuss-free set-up. Not interested in bamboozling you with techie nonsense, it holds your hand through the process of setting up RSS feeds from all your favourite websites, enabling you to start sifting through stories within a couple of minutes.

Sure, it’s not the flashiest or purtiest RSS app out there, but it’s stupidly fast and flexible and the magic word… free! Or at least it’s gratis for the version that we’re all most likely to need. You can rapidly organise folders that can be neatly collapsed or expanded to ensure your stream of headlines stay tidy and manageable. Plus, when you want to read a full story, FreeRange’s bespoke browser smartly optimises the content so text and pics can be scrolled through at speed. And if you’re serious about shaving precious seconds off your browsing time it’s definitely worth learning the FreeRange’s shortcut keys.

The only time you’re left twiddling your thumbs for longer than you’d like is when you choose to update all the feeds you’ve subscribed to – the more RSS feeds the worse it gets, because it’s pulling in headlines from so many sources at once via your network or phone’s Wi-Fi connection. Still, a few moments patience pays off, as FreeRange is one of the smartest bite-size RSS apps currently doing the rounds.