FOCUS online Nachrichten

The Focus online news app offers the latest news and comprehensive service.

Current news from politics, sports, finance, culture, digital, health and many other topics, as well as sustainable service, picture galleries and videos complete the app.
The highlights of the app:
✔ Current topics such as the Russia crisis and the corona pandemic as a live ticker
✔ Local reporters write about the Russian attack on Ukraine and the flood disaster in Ahrweiler
✔ You will receive breaking news immediately via push message
✔ Push messages can be set to your favorite topic
✔ Have articles read aloud with the "Text-2-Speech" function
✔ Goal alarm configurable for your favorite football club or for a single game
✔ Live ticker for sports events such as soccer and Formula 1
✔ Location based weather forecast
✔ Configure the order of topics on the home page
✔ Extensive range of videos from all topics
✔ Home screen widget so you can see the latest news right on the home screen

Download the app now.

We look forward to your feedback and suggestions and appreciate your opinion very much. Write us an email to [email protected]

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Beta Program

Become a beta tester now and get new versions before all other users. We welcome your feedback on the beta updates.
Register now here: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/de.cellular.focus

Your feedback on the beta updates is desired by email to [email protected] or via the Google+ Community: https://goo.gl/T8yM92

If you activate the beta test, you will automatically receive the beta version of the app as an update via the Google Play Store. The beta version then replaces the current version from the store. So you cannot install both versions on your device at the same time.

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Explanation of permissions:

✗ Your accounts (find accounts on device)

Required on devices with older Android versions to receive push notifications, as an existing Google account is required. With this permission it is only possible to query whether an account exists. The list of accounts found is not transmitted and the data of the accounts themselves are not accessible to the app.

✗ Storage (change or delete USB storage contents)

Is required to be able to cache data such as images on devices with little internal memory. For this purpose, the app only accesses the cache directory it has created.
Other data on the USB memory is neither read nor manipulated.

✗ System tools (disable standby mode)

This will make it possible in the future to wake up the device from sleep mode when you receive a push message.

✗ Hardware controls (control vibration alarm)

Optionally, the vibration alarm is triggered when the device receives a push message.

✗ Read Google service configuration

Required by Google for Google Play Services.

✗ Your location (Your location - Approximate (network-based) location).

Required for the optional weather module and/or FOCUS Local.