This ap is great. I think what some people don't realize when complaining of slow speed is that it is actually loading up a whole day or more of articles and you are able to still read them even when you don't have cell or wifi service available like in a subway or on an airplane. So if you just give it sent time to download in the morning you are good to go!

I'm an enthusiastic NYT reader and read the mobile web version from my iPhone daily. This application is a pretty good start. It uses the basic iPhone UI, and you can edit the four tiles at the bottom of the screen. The primary advantage to using this application, instead of the NYT website, is that the application downloads alll the stories; enabling you to read the paper offline (e.g., airplane mode or "no service'). NYT has already updated this app once to reduce the size of the ad, and I'm hoping they'll continue to improve it. The two major problems are that the stories don't appear to be updated regularly. When you compare the stories on the website with the application after it's been "updated", most of the current news stories don't appear in the application. So, if you're only interested in late breaking stories, stick with the website. Also, as noted by almsot everyone, the current update process is very, very sllooowwww. I have been updating in the morning, and it has been taking at least 3 to 5 minutes (over wifi) to retrieve the stories. Also of note is that if you go into the iphone settings, you can change the number of days of news that the application stores (1 - 7 days). Overall, it's a keeper, but I'm hoping to see another update soon.....

This application looks very appealing and has the functions laid out well, but it does not yet perform properly. Loading is VERY slow even on broadband connected WiFi. Some of the thumbnail images for articles don't load at all (the normal NYT website is rendered perfectly and fully in much less time).

After a minute or two of updating, there's a huge amount of news downloaded and available for offline viewing. Just start reading. And the stories scroll all the way down... no artificial "paging".

The safari version of the NYT is a much better experience. This app crashes very frequently and is very slow to load. Only good thing is the convenient categories of the stories. Avoid this app.

This app is unbearably slow on EDGE, and intolerably slow on WiFi. The website is better. Sorry.

Love the new app, but I need a email button!!! I forward tons of articles. Sticking to the old mobile version for now.

Why does Apple even allow this app to be downloaded? NYTimes' content is great but the app quits suddenly every time it is used. I gave up using it.

Faster than Safari for reading NY Times. Articles include small ads near bottom. Some pages under More were very slow at loading but they're better for me now.

Clean app and I will enjoy the offline functionality. A glaring shortcoming is that it takes you to the top of an article when switching between portrait and landscape modes- not cool.

The user interface seems nice and simple. I'm able to download the "Latest News" section just fine. However, most other sections don't download anything. For example, I tried to read "Technology" news several times today. It never worked. If they can fix the reliability this might become a 4-star app.

Since the latest update, this app does indeed work as I had hoped it would. The complete text of each article (along with pictures) downloads in the morning when launch the app, which takes about 15 minutes over Wi-Fi. Make sure you disable Auto-Lock when updating: General > Auto-Lock > Never. Then, throughout the day, I am able to read the NY Times even when on the subway to and from work or on the subway platform - no Edge or Wi-Fi connection necessary - even works in Airplane Mode. At times it is a little unstable/crashy, but most apps on 2.0 still are at this point. Also, it's the New York Times for free (including Sundays!) so who am I to complain? Five Stars.

Not intended to replace reading the Times with Safari, but as a great alternative for certain situations when web access is not available, i.e. on the airplane or with an Ipod Touch when a hotspot is not available. Even better, you can load up to an entire week of the Times that can be read off-line. I just load up the day's issue on my home wi-fi in the morning and then have the option to read it without web access anytime during the day.

This would be the best way to read the NYT if it didn't crash constantly. How hard can it be to fix?

...slow at times, and where is the food section?! Hungry!

Makes the iPhone a first-class way to enjoy my favorite news site.

Loads slow if at all. Lots of issues. Needs major work.

This is the first app or web page that's really made the iPhone feel slow to me. Scrolling is jerky at best and doesn't have the lightning-fast response I've come to expect from the iPhone; even over a fast WiFi connection, it feels like it takes too long to load. When it says its 'updating,' it never gives me a status report and just seems to keep on downloading indefinitely, so I don't know its up to or if I can go to the subway and read news without a connection. Still, it is the best graphical presentation of the Times I've seen on a mobile device.

Good application. Nice, clean interface. Small ad on bottom screen, but doesn't detract too much from viewing.

As some others have said, this app loads a great deal of news so you should give it 5-10 minutes or so before leaving home if using wifi. Overall it is a great app if you understand how to use it.

I use this everyday to read the quality news put out by NY times. It was crashing but the update helped.

Look forward to updates.

I fire this up every morning and let it load stories that I read all day. Even on a solid Wi-Fi signal, this takes 15 minutes and two or three crashes. I have to set the phone's auto-lock to "never" (and remember to re-set it afterwards) and keep checking for crashes. I'm uncertain how much of this is necessary; the "Updating" display seems very reluctant to go away, and may be buggy. The app has a great design and delivers great content, but needs work.

Looks beautiful, but scrolling was choppy, and the app is a little rough around the edges.

This is a very nice interface to the NYT. Apparently the new update (September 14) has done something about the slow loading, because it went quite acceptably well for me on a number of occasions, and I did not have the earlier version. However, there does seem to be a problem with random closings, occasionally. Its not crashing (locking up), it just...closes. But at least when you open it again, its at the top of the same article you were reading. Still, its slightly annoying. That is something I am sure a future update will address, but overall, this is a keeper. I love it.

Why can't NYT get this mobile platform right? This app is slow and finicky; I have to constantly worry if it's ready for my keypress or if it will crash. Though article retrieval & presentation is improved, the app is maddeningly slow and inefficient. In comparison with the AP and WSJ app, the NYT app comes up way short. They need to stop adding features and start finding a feasible way to present all the great NY Times writing in a usable manner. At least the devs had the humility to add a "reset" button!

It used to work but the new upgrade killed it. This app is a POS.

Worked well at first with the new upgrade. Now it is slow and crashes frequently. Needs another update

As of version 2.0.2 the developers keep adding worthwhile features (I love the option to turn off landscape mode), but the app just gets worse and worse in terms of freezing, crashing, and frequent unresponsiveness. At the best of times this has the most sluggish interface of any app I've ever used. Flick-to-scroll basically doesn't work. More like flick and 5 to 15 seconds later the screen will scroll if you're lucky. More often the app will just crash. It crashes during start up more than 75% of the time. New in 2.0.2 is freezing: the app doesn't crash, but it just doesn't do anything; it hangs and you either have to force-quit by holding the home button, or when that doesn't work force-restarting the phone. Resetting the app by clearing caches etc in settings improves the situation for a launch or two, but soon things return to "normal" -- crash, crash, hang, crash, crash.

WORST app on my iPhone! The last version was unstable and degraded over time to the point it constantly crashed. This version does nothing but freeze my iPhone! Guys, get it right for ONCE! USA Today's app and the AP Mobile News app both work fine, why can't yours?

Crashes,slow.

Ok, so today I get another email from the Desperate Times to sign up for their smartphone subscription for $5 for 12 weeks thereafter normal rate of $15 a month applies.So I take the bait and pay the $5 bucks and sign up. Now I understand and accept that if I want to read something for free from the NYT or other newspapers via a smartphone I will be subjected to banner ads. I have no problem with that.My problem is that after paying the trial subscription, logging in, and now reading the NYT as a paid smartphone user, I was shocked to continue to see cheap banner ads keep popping up on articles no matter what section I was reading. They even appeared in the Obit section. This is just plain pathetic.I am not really a NYT avid fan but I do think they are still a pretty decent national paper but they keep making mistakes after mistakes.I seriously doubt I will continue to subscribe after the trial ends.

I want the NY Times to survive, but $195/year is not going to happen. At the very least, please turn off updates for all the sections I can't even read (see previous sentence).

Fortunately, NYTimes fix this app bug, hope for keeping advanced and quality continuously.

I subscribed to the New York Times Online and Smartphone edition. I must admit the app is well designed to deliver the content.

Previous updates nuked saved articles. Then they fixed that but the articles were no longer saved in chronological order. Now with the latest update unless you're a subscriber you can't even save any of the "freebie" Top Stories. Just make everything subscribers-only and stop screwing around with such stupidity.

As a paying subscriber, it is unacceptable for banner ads to be on all the time. I expect better of a national/world paper.

The banner ads will not go away and make it impossible to view the page. Really hard to believe the Times cannot come up with a better looking app.

Strange lags all the time and annoying ads without an option to remove them, even with subscription.

App does not load from newsstand

The app is filled with bugs. Every time it updates it takes several minutes to complete even on wifi. About half the time updating causes it to freeze and of you try and restart it will crash every time you open it. You eventually just have to delete the app entirely and reinstall it. This app is seriously bugged.