As you can imagine,
- U.S. and International editions
- video clips - the app's description mentions live video, but I think that's misleading as I couldn't find a live stream anywhere - it's more of a near-live event coverage with videos than anything else
- category drilldown
- CNN radio
- iReports
- story highlights, just like the ones you see at CNN.com - I absolutely love these
- easy swiping left/right between stories makes navigation much faster
- a personalized area called CNN Profile where you can save stories to read later as well as read local news and weather
- Twitter and Facebook integration, most likely for easy story sharing
- a widget that cycles through the latest news in a topic of your choice
Another problem is it froze for me while trying to access GPS and needed to be killed using a task killer (force closing just respawned the faulty version over and over).
Still, CNN App for Android Phones is a welcomed addition to the pile of Android news apps and seems to be well received by the users so far - 4.7 stars with 37 ratings after only a few hours. Curiously enough, the tablet version only has 44 ratings and 3.2 stars after almost 2 months. Ouch.
CNN App for Android Phones