Samsung announced today that its SPH-V6500 and SCH-V650 smartphones will both offer support for Adobe PDF, MS Word and Excel, JPG and TXT files. Although I am not a huge fan of Adobe PDF, this is a big step forward to making e-books attractive to the casual cell phone user. Perhaps than again it is not, if one considers the hassle of DRM-infected Adobe files. :(

[related: Adobe has also released a Symbian version (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readerforsymbian.html) of its Adobe reader. Time to fire it up in my Nokia Communicator 9500. -Alex]

Source: Digital Chosunilbo and PDA Live

The news made it to mainstream tech sites today, and I really don't see the good in this. Reading PDF files on a cell phone? God, that must be slooooooow.