Digg's belated iPhone app brings native goodness

From CNET News.com: Digg's new iPhone app, which arrives Wednesday, does not bring any of the new, or exciting features announced by the company at the SXSW festival last week. It will, however bring a better and more complete Digg experience to iPhone users than what they've had with the company's mobile Web app.

The software, scheduled to appear in the U.S. App Store in the next few hours, was pre-announced by Digg founder Kevin Rose during an FOWA London conference interview back in early October.

Digg has long had a mobile Web browser-friendly version of its site (m.digg.com), which has undergone several iterations. Though what it's always been unable to do is take advantage of the iPhone's hardware to offer things like gesture-based navigation, and generous local caching. The new app does both these things, as well as changing up the interface to include things the mobile version does not, like offering image and video previews, related stories, and an embedded browser with quick links back to the Digg story pages.

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