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# Buy The Times, get a tablet...
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2012/12/buy_the_times_get_a_tablet/
- Published: 2012-12-11T11:46:36.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T15:50:41.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: nexus, tablet apps, tablets, The Times

![The Times - Nexus 7 offer](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/12/times-nexus-7.jpg?resize=621%2C525)Great offers that I don’t understand #56: *The Times* giving away or selling you [a cheap Nexus 7 with a digital subscription](http://paidcontent.org/2012/12/04/tail-wags-dog-times-subsidizes-75-of-nexus-7-for-subscribers/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). I see the concept – a digital sub AND the device to read it on. The problem? My experience of using *The Times* on the Nexus 7 is terrible. Unless I’ve missed something *(I had – see below)*, the app is just a standard Android phone one, with no real modifications for the tablet form. Unless that improves fast, this is going to hurt *The Times*‘s digital aspirations, not help them.

**Update**: OK, I *had* missed something. *The Times* app – the only one I could find last time I searched the Play store – is not the only one. There’s a tablet edition that works a lot better – and which seems to have replaced the old one I had, but without upgrading the old one directly. Makes more sense now – compare these screen shots:

\*\*Old \*\*

[![Old-style Time app for Android](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/12/Screenshot_2012-12-11-11-53-04-thumb-400x640-2938.png?resize=400%2C640)](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/12/Screenshot%5F2012-12-11-11-53-04.png?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

**New**

\*\*[![New style Times app on Android](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/12/Screenshot_2012-12-11-11-53-52-thumb-400x640-2940.png?resize=400%2C640)](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/12/Screenshot%5F2012-12-11-11-53-52.png?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)\*\*I’ll have a play over the next few days and report back…