Great app except for not universal

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A developer who listens - is a good developer and Im glad to see that NG has improved there display to allow full screen images. Its certainly better but...Im not enamored with how They implemented it. Its kind of hard to explain but basically you have to tap it twice in order to see it full-screen. I still think there are better apps for birding out there in this one, but there are some reasons for owning it anyway.

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I own all the current birding apps on the iPhone: Peterson, Sibley, iBird and now National Geographic. Ive been waiting for Nat Geo to update their app as version 1 was not up to the quality I expect of this company. Im glad to see this new update and it has some really neat ideas…quizzes, journal, clever interface, lots of species, etc. There are little things that bother me compared to other birding apps I own like the drawings only zoom inside the top half of the screen of the iPhone so you cant ever see them in full size, but I will give them a pass on that for now. But there is ONE MAJOR BUMMER about the Nat Geo bird app: it wont run on an iPad!

Certainly they have the programming talent to make it a universal app. So I have my theory and maybe Im full of it but what kind of tells me Im right is you cant zoom the drawings to full screen on the iPhone. And why not? Could it be that they are all too low resolution? If they are not high res they wont look good on the iPad. Other apps have similar issues but it doesnt stop them from making a universal app. So come on Nat Geo lets see some great art at high resolution and a universal UI. Oh one other thing missing…no photos.

So for now I will give them 3 stars and when they make it full screen iPad Ill give them 5.

naturefaith about National Geographic Birds: Field Guide to North America, v3.2