The New York Times application on the Palm Pre is a news reader app that isn’t that much better than the New York Times mobile website. It is slightly faster to load and browse around than when you have multiple browser cards open. You can see the latest and breaking news, but you will need to refresh the app after a while to see the latest even if you leave it running in the background  - there’s no way to automatically refresh or have news sent to the notification bar. 

Similarly, content isn’t much different from simply browsing the mobile web version. What I would have liked to see is options to automatically refresh or pull the latest feeds from the NYT, or at least have some sort of notifications appear that provides information on breaking news. For news junkies, this doesn’t really cut it. For the casual news reader checking in every few hours, it works pretty well. If you enjoy logically separating your news from your browsing, this is definitely very useful.