T3 Magazine for iPad & iPhone Reviews

by Willphoto

Upgraded to iOS5, and the T3 app vanished and I appear to have lost ALL my previous issues.

Upon re-downloading, bookshelf shows no issues. Great magazine, but not great enough to pay for each issue TWICE!

NONE of my other magazine apps behaved this way. After the upgrade, the T3 app did not even appear on iCloud. I guess my magazines (and money) are gone forever.

by A.T.161

I purchased a yearly subscription and every month, I put up with downloading the latest issue(making sure, of course, not to let my iPad go to sleep or else the download doesn't complete!) after going through the hassle of all that :) what do I get? Crash after crash after crash after crash! How ironic, you keep on categorizing electronics every month while your crappy app doesn't function properly. Where would T3 rank T3Magazine?

by Jfrplp

Just bought the May issue and I can't download it. It says the file is corrupt and try to download it again. I've tried 10 times now, don't buy until they fix this!!!! I want my money back.

by RGlide650

You menus don't work, articles from other pages randomly show up in other articles. For a tech mag your not very technical. If these bugs are showing up in your production app I would not buy this mag. Sorry for bad review but if I can't read an article or quit out of the mag then it should not be in the store.

by Puzzle836

I don't think it's fair that you can restore the purchased magazines ONLY if you are a subscriber. I have bought a couple of editions as non-subscriber in order to see whether I want to be a subscriber or not. But after an update, all the magazine that I have purchased went missing. Each edition cost me $4.99 unlike the $1.99 a subscriber pays for. So, a subscriber pays less AND gets to restore the purchased editions. Whereas, I, payed a lot more and cannot restore the previously bought edition. That is truly unfair.

Evo Magazine on the other hand, actually "remembers" all the magazines I buy, which makes it possible for me to restore them. And only for that, I have become an EVO magazine subscriber owing to their fair and honest business conduct.

Unfortunately, Road & Track, T3, Automobile, Robb Report, and Car and Driver Magazine are all the same. Actually Robb Report is even worse because one edition of Robb Report cost me $7.99. I rarely take time to write a review but this time I felt ripped off and had to share this with others.

by Sandygail

Nothing interactive about it, just close up pictures of the iPhone 5! Even HELP is not available, BUT it lets me buy a full subscription to the magazine, if I want to! Very disappointing! No way to contact anybody to report it, like other iPad magazines do within their app. Surprising, being that Future Publishing has other great magazines.

by JaYnOrMaS

This is a good interface, I like the simplicity of it. This is something I can show my friends and show them how the iPad is going to change the way we read. I'm happy it doesn't read as a PDF file, but the price is way to expensive. You got to be kidding, at $6.99 an issue? I'll just download the PDF for free! I don't mind paying for something like this, but at that price forget about it. There no subscription option, but if my math is right I'm not paying $84 a year either. Just because we all paid for an expensive iPad, doesn't mean were going to pay for an over priced magazine either... even if it does look promising. Fix the price or my comment will be the only one you guys get

by A97:)

If you consider buying T3 magazines, DON'T!!!
I am struggling for months now to get back the magazines I bought through a subscription. Despite the purchase evidences I provided and a long chain of emails, there was no success!!! The only thing I got was a never ending discussion and several re-installs of the application. Not only I lost my money, the magazines I bought and now also my time.
If Apple would be serious they would remove T3Magazine from distribution.
If you consider getting some of the magazines of Future Publishing, DON'T!!!
They have the worst customer support you may imagine.
Keep your fingers, and time, far from these time and money wasters...
I hope you take this review seriously and don't get trapped in the same problem I did. There is enough amusement out there and T3 and Future Publishing only have grief to offer you.
I never imagined I would write such a review... But i feel that it is not even close to the frustration my experience with this magazine, app and the people behind it gave me until now.

by Astoryteller

I bought a yearly subscription but this must be a case of bait and switch because after I paid, I cannot read the magazine at all since T3Magazine crashes and will not download any issue. This has been the case for several months. I redownloaded T3Magazine several times, but it has been of no use. Please refund all of us our subscription fees.

by Tony2979

Subscribed through iTunes. 1st 3 attempts to download the current issue failed. Had to uninstall and reinstall T3Magazine . Finally worked. Today a new edition was in the library. Failed again three times trying to download. Uninstall and reinstall again. Now continues to error out on the new edition and wanting me to pay again for the first issue I received even after restoring. Seems a tech magazine could do much better than this

by Smittyhead

Great magazine experience. Had a hiccup with the subscription not showing my past magazines but support was helpful and resolved it.

Love the way these guys bring the magazine to what it can be like on devices like this instead of boring traditionalism.

by Subatomichobbit

I’ve been a fan of T3 for some years now. However modern iPad support is thoroughly lacking. I have over an inch of black bar around the pages! If given the choice, give me a plain non-interactive experience which uses my screen rather than a tiny one which doesn’t. The interactive elements are a little glitchy anyway.

by Tim From Greensboro

One request....include pound to US dollars...I know...and include more US/Canadian items...example...Autel Robotics Xstar Premium Drone...@ $699 during Christmas...4K camera and all the features of the DJI Phantom 4...not on your list...Ouch! This is a must read...love it!

by Indiebands

The built in browser is a bit wonky, but overall pretty intuitive interactive features. As for the content itself, T3 gets 5 stars from me.

by Chaballout

Always thought this is a great magazine and always lots of new info

by JMS182

With apps (well, anything really) great customer service is often hard to come by. However, T3 has been impeccable. I admit that I had a problem at first with T3Magazine not recognizing my subscription number, but I sent an email and was responded to within minutes! Needless to say, I was up and running with an AMAZING magazine and graphics within 30 minutes. Thank you to Paddy for the great service!

by Bradly J Edwards

A fun app, obviously a lot of work has gone into getting so much detail here -- it's very interactive, rich and glossy and almost game like trying to find all the little hidden treats. Embedded video, hidden graphics and lots of panels to pan around in.

It took a while to download ... I had to keep poking around the LIbrary while it was loading to stop my ipad going into AutoLock, but well worth it once it was finished installing. There is a nifty 360 degree camera view that you can pan around in too.

Nice to see T3 have applied as much attention to the digital edition as they do to the print one. It's a bit mind boggling that they've got many of the pages in two layouts for portrait and landscape.

by Rcasti4

Really good content and design

by Thh67

Started with the paper issue....from UK and ME...now only a digital reader....and love it more...
Keep up the good work guys...

by Mhemir

In my opinion nothing can replace the feeing of holding a book or magazine in your hands and turning the pages. However I must admit the iPad edition of T3 that I wait impatiently each month almost fulfills that craving. It is an excellent app. Congratulations.

M.H. Emiroglu

by IELI TriggeR

however, i really liked it on iPad! works great!!!

by BIG D0G

I've been a loyal T3 digital subscriber for years now and I see no reason to go looking for some second rate tech mag now.