Sky News for iPhone was launched back in May of 2009 and Sky News has now announced their iPhone application has now been downloaded over a million times reports an article over on pocket-lint.

As one can imagine, Sky News for iPhone delivers breaking news via video, pictures and text along with different categories for iPhone users to choose and includes UK news and top stories.

Furthermore, Sky News, due to the iPhone success has announced a new mobile internet service which is a free service and can be accessed via m.skynews.com on their handset and the service will appear optimised for that handset.

The general manager for Sky mobile, David Gibbs has said they have already seem millions of various Sky iPhone applications and Sky News has been important to this, and with the launch of the new service we can deliver a tailored experience to Sky News users who access through their mobile.