Flipboard

Flipboard is a popular, personalized magazine that aims to keep you in the loop with everything going on in the world. Think of it as a news portal where you can add new sources to keep track of in style. Version 3.0 adds some new stuff to the mix.

Flipboard for Windows Phone has been updated with a "topics" feature that allows you to discover new content based on your interests. You can find new stories based on tags you select as your interests, with over 34,000 topics available across categories such as technology, science, business, politics, sports and many more.

Flipboard for Windows Phone has received a tiny update today. It follows the app's big update earlier this month that brought support for 512MB devices and more. Today's update, version 2.5.1, has the same changelog as version 2.5, with one small addition:

Flipboard has a new update for Windows Phone. And before you ask, there's still no support for 512 MB devices just yet and no flip. With that out of the way, look forward to the ability to now pin favorite items to your Windows Phone Start screen.

Update 2: Flipboard has informed us that they are working with Microsoft for a 512 MB-optimized version of the app.

Update: Users can now download the Flipboard app. It is still not available for 512 MB phones although it does have some 'flip-like' animations.

The long awaited Flipboard online news reading app for Windows Phone that's been in development for over a year and had a false start a few days ago, may finally and officially be available for download in the Windows Phone Store sometime today.

Originally, the app became available but it was later pulled from the Store due to it being a 'placeholder' version and not the official one.

Back in Berlin, Germany a few weeks ago during Microsoft's big reveal, many people noticed the Flipboard app for Windows Phone was preloaded on a the new Lumia 730 and Lumia 830 display phones. I won't get into the politics of what happened, but you can pretty much guess that Flipboard was not announced that day. Instead, it is still Coming Soon™.

This morning though, a link for the app has been spotted on the Store. As you may have learned from the headline, you cannot yet download it, making this likely blocked by the developers until they are ready to announce it, or it is a private beta, meant for internal testing.