Perhaps it was unfair of Ewan to review a beta - but maybe his feedback will help the development team avoid wasting their (and other people's) time? Nokia Channels is a newspaper-like, closed content consumption system and here's the detailed review .
"Out of Nokia’s Beta labs comes another application that could well make the grade and get bumped up to a ‘full’ (firmware) Nokia application in the future. Nokia Channels is promoted as a ‘media service’, giving you access to newspapers and content from around the world. How strong is it, and can it stand up to the full might of the open internet and the power of RSS readers?
Okay, this is going to be painful, because the answer is “not very well in most cases”.