The New York Times application is a great application if you want to keep up with the latest news, gossip and photos. There are many categories, which include Business, Science, Economy or even Opinion which features many editorials.
The layout of the application is quite simple to use. When opening the app, it takes you to the main screen which has all of the latest news. Of course an internet connection is needed to keep all of the news up to date. But the news is updated every few hours, so you will always be able to see the latest headlines on the go. The app also has a search button, which you can search for keywords and it will show you a list of all of the news stories corresponding to that word. This is a great feature if you’re looking for specific news.
Each story also features a picture about the news story, which is a useful if you want to be able to see what the story is talking about before you read it. Once you touch on a story and get into the full story, you have the option to change from portrait to landscape by tilting your device to either side, and then the story will format itself to the side just in case you need the text size to be bigger. Advertisements are displayed at the bottom of each news story, but this is only a minor setback to the application as you can pretty much still see all of the information.
There is also a ‘Photos’ mode that you can look at just the pictures from the available news articles. . .and then pick which ones you want to read about.
When you click the ‘More’ button at the bottom, you are given a list of all categories. If you then click edit at the top right, you’ll be taken to a Configure mode. Here you can customize the shortcut categories at the bottom.
It’s great, but slow until it completes the update. I update it in the morning for about 4-5 minutes and then take it with me on the train. That way, all the sections load, including pictures, so it’s available offline. Paper, smaper–this is the way to read the NY Times!
This is a pretty good app but it does have a few problems. It can be pretty slow if you aren’t using wi-fi. It also has some rather obnoxious advertisements at the bottom of all the articles that you read. Over all it is pretty good however and I do use it a lot
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