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Maxfish
Posts: 1
Phone Model:
Audiovox SMT5600
Service Provider:
Rogers |
 
Fri Sep 09, 2005 1:45 am |
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I am interested in purchasing the Audiovox SMT5600 Camera Phone and am wondering if reading an eBook on this devise is reasonable for this model. Has anyone tried to read an ebook and if so which software apps have you used/tried? Is the phone capable to read txt files on its own? Would i need to DL a smartphone app? Thanks.
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Bjoern
Posts: 3611
Phone Model:
Nokia E61
Service Provider:
o2 Germany |
Fri Sep 09, 2005 7:01 am |
I don't have experience with this particular model, but:
It's a Windows smartphone, so yes, it can read normal .txt-files (quite all smartphones can do that).
And Microsoft has its own eBook reader:
http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/ppc.asp
But it seems like Microsoft uses (as always) its own fileformat.
But they've got their own library:
http://www.mslit.com/
There are over 1500 free eBooks (and surprisingly there is a lot of good stuff like H.G. Wells "War of the Worlds" and many pocket dictionaries) and more to buy.
If you've got eBooks as PDF you can download a PDF viewer from the Adobe website.
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bbernie
Posts: 34
Phone Model:
v551
Service Provider:
cingular |
Sun Sep 11, 2005 4:20 pm |
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The one problem with that phone and actually trying to read an e-book is the size of the screen.
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xephael
Posts: 8 |
Sat Oct 15, 2005 1:49 am |
| Maxfish wrote: | | I am interested in purchasing the Audiovox SMT5600 Camera Phone and am wondering if reading an eBook on this devise is reasonable for this model. Has anyone tried to read an ebook and if so which software apps have you used/tried? Is the phone capable to read txt files on its own? Would i need to DL a smartphone app? Thanks. |
The screen is small, but high contrast and high resolution for the size. A treo would be better in some repects, or a full fledged PDA.
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njirishmikey
Posts: 14
Phone Model:
Nokia 3300
Service Provider:
AT&T / Cingular |
Sat Jun 03, 2006 7:11 pm |
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I agree. The screen is a bit small for reading more than text messages.
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