GQ | Dec 09 | Men of the Year Issue
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Description
GQ
DECEMBER 2009
THE MEN OF THE YEAR ISSUE
Put GQ in the palm of your hand. Download every page of our first-ever digital issue directly to your iPhone or iPod Touch.
You’ll get award-winning photos, insider profiles, and up-to-the-minute intel on style, culture, politics, sports, food, gear, and more. Plus:
EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS
More shots of the men who matter and the women you love.
EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS
Go behind the scenes of select photo shoots.
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Tap on the screen to get the looks you need.
View it all in vertical portrait mode—fully optimized for the iPhone—or in horizontal landscape mode, which lets you navigate the print layout of the GQ Men of the Year issue.
The GQ Men of the Year iPhone app: Look sharp. Live smart. Right now.
This is a big app. We recommend you use Wi-Fi for the initial download, then leave the app open for about 5 minutes so your phone can absorb the entire issue. Once you've done that, you'll be able to read the stories and view the glorious high-resolution images and videos offline, wherever you are. Enjoy!
Customer Reviews
SLOOOOOOW & Requires Fast Connection
The program requires a working -- and fast -- wireless or Wi-Fi connection, which is totally stupid because paging through an app version of a magazine is something I'd naturally turn to if my connection was weak and I was separated from things like email and etc. For example, this would be great on a subway or an airplane. But as it happens, even with 3G service, its still slow as hell. I've owned the app for ten minutes now, and I'm still not any further than looking at the cover. Everywhere I look in this app it's just endless spinning wheels.
Interesting but pretty flawed
Content is suprisingly readable and useful on the small screen, the translation really does work. Unfortunately it's hobbled by a decision to make the app only a 400k container, which loads all of the content over the network. This makes browsing very slow and painful (even over wifi it was slow and would ocassionaly error out telling me I had no network connection) and is instant-death for something like airplane use. It really nullifies the attraction of being able to flip open a magazine when you know you're going to watch a loading animation every time you do something. I've been told all downloaded content stays cached, but that just makes the network aspect even more perplexing. If you're going to eat my storage anyways why not let me front load it all so the experience is smooth and instantaneous? Someone at Condé Nast needs to rethink this, I won't bother downloading another copy if the network aspect stays.
Also, why is each issue going to be a separate app? I wouldn't want a screen full of them if I got hooked on the concept, make a master library app with in-app purchases.
Refuses to load-on a 3Gs w/10 megs/sec wi-fi-VIRUS?
I bought this app, because I've been a longtime GQ subscriber, and was excited to see what they'd done to take advantage of the possibilities of the app store. It's been two days, and I still haven't managed to get the app to even go beyond the first screen. The little progress wheel just spins and spins, and nothing comes up. I've left the phone on, I've plugged it in - this app has even forced me to have to completely reset my phone. I'm not sure if I would term this an "app" so much as a "VIRUS". A total waste of money and time. I am extremely disappointed with this.
- Category: Lifestyle
- Released: Nov 18, 2009
- Version: 1.0
- 0.4 MB
- Languages: English
- Seller: CondeNet
- © 2009 Condé Nast Digital
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
