Mon November 22 2004
From Palm to PPC: my new Axim x50v |
10:30 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones I am holding a new x50v in my hands and all I can say so far: it is a totally NEW experience! I am not sure about the Pros and Contras, since I haven't had much of a chance to play with it yet. Rest assured I will post more about my new journey into the PPC realm in a couple of days! |
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eBookwise 1150 hands-on review |
10:24 AM by Alexander Turcic in More E-Book Readers | Fictionwise eBookwise Brad has one of the first hands-on reviews of the rebranded eBookwise 1150 hardware e-book reader. Nice job, Brad! From his MR forum comment: At first I was kind of disappointed with the low res, half VGA screen, but that quickly changed when I started to read. My reading speed went way up because of the larger screen. I could sort of scan ahead. Also even though it is lower res, I find the 1150's serif font easier to read than the default sans-serif font on my PDA. I've always maintained that the relatively small screen size of today's PDAs is one of their biggest drawbacks - at least when it comes to reading e-books. The eBookwise's huge paperback screen size outshines conventional PDA screens. The low price ($99) plus the big screen make the eBookwise an interesting alternative to PDAs if you are looking for a dedicated e-book device. |
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Sun November 21 2004
Problems with the Treo 650s and T5s |
01:56 PM by sUnShInE in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones The Treo 650 and the Tungsten T5 use a new FAT based nonvolatile file system, which is causing big problems.
Not good for products that only offer a mere 23Mb of memory to play with. These issues are causing many users to cancel their orders to wait until the memory problems are addressed. Given that most of the people who buy new toys as soon as they're released are tech phreaks and developers, this doesn't bode well for a company who has already seen their market share dip below that of the Windows CE market. Via Slashdot |
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Fri November 19 2004
On intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins |
07:05 PM by Francesco in E-Book General | Reading Recommendations In a recent thread I got into troubles trying to explain what was "The emperor's new mind" about. Well, it seems it wasn't enough for me, as I try now to review "On intelligence", by Jeff Hawkins. |
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Thu November 18 2004
Tim O'Reilly Interview |
08:38 PM by ricmac in Miscellaneous | Lounge I did an interview with Tim O'Reilly, which I published in 3 parts over on my personal blog Read/Write Web. MobileRead regulars may be interested especially in Part 3, where Tim discusses eBooks and book publishing in general in the 21st century. |
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New version of ubook available (0.9a) |
07:28 PM by cbarnett in E-Book Software | Reading and Management Gowerpoint have just released the newest version of ubook - version 0.9a. Here's what's new (from the website): # Added Install program for all versions. Future features planned: # i-book - Ability to easily read images-book, i.e. book made of images only, like magazine scans or comic books. One important point, is that ubook, from this version on, is now a shareware product. A licence costs $12US and works for all versions of the reader. The unlicenced version is not crippled in any way, but pops up an about screen every now and then. Licenced users also get access to other goodies like the larger versions of the 1913 Websters dictionary (> 3MB), more skins, and the promise of more stuff to come. In my opinion, $12 is pretty reasonable for a product of this quality, and the level of support from David at Gowerpoint is excellent. I've already registered... Craig. |
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Interesting Handango Decision |
03:34 PM by Bob Russell in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones There's an interesting discussion going on at Pocket PC Thoughts. As you are probably aware, Handango is one of the top PDA software web stores. It has recently boasted some positive press regarding it's success. The topic of discussion is a change in the way Handango determines the best selling software. Instead of counting the number of copies sold, they have just converted to counting the most revenue produced by the sales. As a result there is a large bias towards the higher priced software, especially when it's not discounted. It could be argued that this is a way to avoid some of the problems associated with titles getting too popular due to price cuts that don't last, but one has to think that the primary motivation is to get the biggest revenue producing titles high on the list. That's a powerful marketing tool, so I'm sure they want to get the most profitable titles the best publicity. |
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