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NYTimes – myTouch Slide Apps
The NYTimes app is one of the newer myTouch Slide apps to hit the Android Market. It brings a wealth of excellent and much-missed features to your myTouch 3G Slide, including the ability to the read articles offline (say on a flight). This is an official app and it has been integrated well with Android and the interface to the New York Times. Video playback and sound quality is excellent and the buffering is often non-existent even on a slow connection. You can also adjust the font-sized based on your preferences, a huge improvement to the browser-based version of the site – it results in more reading and less tapping and zooming.
The reading experience is excellent, though the text may appear a little washed-out in bright lighting such as under direct sunlight. This T-Mobile myTouch app sticks to the design patterns of the original New York Times website, with its familiar fonts, color schemes, and text placements. You can also share articles you’ve read very easily. The main interface presents a list of articles with an associated thumbnail, tapping on any one will take you straight to the content (which will include any photos in the piece). You can browse through a couple of dozen sections just like the main website. You can easily move between stories by swiping across the screen. Overall, an excellent myTouch 3G and myTouch 3G Slide app for Android.
