Citibank intros iPad, Kindle apps

Citibank, the consumer banking arm of financial services giant Citigroup, has rolled out a new banking app for tablets, which supports the iPad and the Amazon Kindle Fire, but not tablets running the Google-powered Android 3.0 Honeycomb or later, The Paypers reports.

Citibank has billed the release of its new banking app for tablets an “exclusive launch for Amazon Appstore for Android”.

Citibank does offer smartphone apps for the iPhone and all Android devices; however, its tablet apps are only optimised for the iPad and the Kindle Fire.

Users of tablets running Google's Android 3.0 Honeycomb or later would only be able to access the Android 2.x smartphone version of the app in a stretched configuration, taking no advantage of the features in last year's Android 3.0 Honeycomb or 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich releases, Apple Insider writes.