Personally, I rather like the new time picker and have never experienced any usability problems. Also, the appearance depends on your time settings; the inner circle the parent poster mentions only appears if you use 24-hour time.
> the inner circle the parent poster mentions only appears if you use 24-hour time.
Which is only the vast majority of the world (about half a dozen countries use 12h clocks as a standard in written form).
(as it turns out, that means the vast majority of the world won't give a fig about the AM/PM selector being broken, the touch targets are a much bigger issue)
I disagree. The measurement of time is based on our planet's rotation and its revolution around the Sun. Which are both ideally represented as circles that wrap around. I absolutely think that the Android Calendar app does a great job of making event entry quick and precise.
http://i.imgur.com/KhhHul5.png