Review: I've been waiting a long time for this, and am slightly disappointed.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 12, 2011
I am a long-time subscriber to the Wall Street Journal paper and digital edition.  Before that I used to get the Kindle version on my Kindle Keyboard, but switched because the Digital Edition gives you access on more devices than the Kindle Edition does.  I use it on my computer, my Android phone, and sometimes even read the physical "dead tree" edition.  When we got a Kindle Fire on its first available day, I was disappointed that there wasn't a WSJ application for it, and actually didn't think that there ever would be, since Amazon has the competing product in the form of the Kindle Edition to the paper.Anyway, the WSJ Application did finally become available in the Amazon Application Store a few days ago, and I have mixed feelings about it.  On one hand, I'm really happy that this was finally made available and am pleased with the layout and look of it.  My problem is that navigation on the Fire in this application is awful.  I have never had a problem navigating through the paper on the old Android version of the WSJ app on my Motorola Triumph phone, or using the regular old Kindle version.  On the Kindle Fire, navigation in the WSJ application is very frustrating.  I constantly have articles randomly return to the first page, midway through.  Also, the screen sensitivity seems to vary as you are reading the application.  You'll try to click on a link to a story and nothing will happen to the third try or so.  Other times, you will barely bring your finger near the screen, and it will start changing your page or taking you to a different article.  Changing the screen orientation while reading, even if for just a second, also causes this application to do very weird things, like returning to the first page of the article you are in, or moving you to a completely different article.  Something is terribly wrong with the implementation of this application on Fire.  I wish they just made the regular Android version from the Google Android Store available through the Amazon Application Store.Hopefully a newer version of this application will correct these problems or will give customers of running it in regular Android mode.I would have given this application less than 4 stars, but based on all the other positive reviews, and the baseless-ness of many of the 1 star reviews, I didn't want to take a chance in flaming this application if these problems are only effecting me for some reason.  I don't think that is the case, because my Kindle Fire works fine with everything else we do with it, but I certainly don't want to dissuade people from trying this app for themselves. Please just look out for these issues, and if you have them also, please post a comment or review, so the WSJ app team can be made more aware of it.////Update on January 19th, 2012////I've been using this for a while, now on my Kindle Fire and been pretty happy with it.  90% of the time it works well.  I have noticed that uninstalling it and reinstalling it occasionally makes the "freezing" issue go away for a few weeks.  Obviously, you shouldn't have to do that, but it only takes a minute or two and really does solve the bugs, albeit temporarily, so far.