For those of you interested in what the News Express app looks like on T-Mobile's handsets, you can see here a preview of the UI and some of the animation effects - pretty cool.

In yesterday's "T-Mobile Now Offering..." post, David Mannl left a comment about the News Express service and this is what he had to say:

I developed and designed the Flash part of the News Express application for T-Mobile. The service is only available for T-Mobile customers in Germany, Austria and UK. More countries will be added soon. The application itself consists of three major parts. The Flash-Lite player, the Flash Templates and a Symbian application.
Flash is only used as a presentation layer. The actual task of updating the content automatically twice a day is done by the Symbian application. In order to communicate betweeen the two apps we are using the FSCommand's integrated into flash-lite 1.1 profile.

More information here and here .

Thanks David for the info!