The Silicon Alley Insider called the Wall Street Journal's Mobile Reader its favourite to date, due to its software that “makes instant sense the first time you get your hands on it.”

“It delivers all the Journal's content, updated constantly, in whatever form makes the most sense to you,” the Insider reported Tuesday.

Ease of use is key when developing platforms for mobile, making the news and information each user wants easily accessible and quickly delivered.

“If you want to just scan headlines, you can do that. Click once and you'll instantly get a one-paragraph summary; click again and it will download the entire article, which takes about 10 seconds, max,” the Insider stated. “The reader also passes our subway/airplane test with flying colours - it lets you save stories you've downloaded so you can read them when you're underground or in the air.”

To use the software, users must have a recent model BlackBerry or other new mobile device, and is available for free download.

“The Journal has also wisely made the service free for now - as in, you can get the Wall Street Journal, delivered to your Berry in real time, at no cost - but it's definitely worth paying for,” the Insider stated.