Next Issue for iPhone has a neat Cover Flow-style view for swiping through magazine issues.

(Credit: Next Issue)

As a die-hard magazine fan, I’ve enjoyed having Next Issue on my iPad. It’s a subscription service that brings me unlimited periodicals for a flat monthly rate ($9.99 or $14.99 depending on whether you want weeklies as well).

Can you read this? Of course not. But Next Issue won’t format the page for comfortable viewing on your iPhone .

(Credit: Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET)

However, I’ve bemoaned some fairly major shortcomings in the app, such as no Retina support, text-view mode, bookmarking, article sharing or printing, and more. The folks at Next Issue seem more concerned with adding titles to the library (which now includes an impressive 120-plus) rather than improving the user experience.

So I was hopeful that the just-released Next Issue for iPhone and iPod Touch would corre… [Read more]