MobileRead Week in Review: 01/09 - 01/16

[Alexander Turcic]

Ok kids, time for the weekly roundup of what we've covered this week:

Announcements
Wanted: MR Editors

Avantgo
Just out: AvantGo 5.7 build 35!

Current E-Books Trends
Pain threshold on e-book prices
Readers turn towards e-books

E-Book Readers
FlatLrf: Web-to-Librie conversion tool

E-Book Webstores
Free at Fictionwise: SciFi novel "Time Ablaze"

General Chat
ClieSource (Clie) -> 1Src.com (Palm) -> All Tech!
Fitaly vs. Atomik - PDA text layouts compared
Handango forcing activation models upon developers!
Low Tech "Hipster" PDA (Humorous)
Mac Mini and iPod Shuffle; iLife '05, iWork
Sammy on why he prefers Palm OS to Windows Mobile
Time of evil: a brief history of mobile malware

Link Swap
Yahoo! Finance News through RSS feeds

Other Readers
Overview of CHM readers for Pocket PC

Palm
Handango freebie: Passwords Plus for PalmOS

Pocket PC
BetaPlayer 0.096 RC unstable released
Handango freebie: SlashPhoto for PocketPC
Illium NewsBreak RSS reader reviewed

Portable Audio/Video
iPod Shuffle - the iPod juggernaut will roll on

Smartphones
First Windows Mobile 2005 Smartphone from LG?
Wear a Pendant Cellphone
Worlds Fastest 3D Gamer Phone

Sunrise
Sunrise 0.40 released
Sunrise 0.40 scheduled for January 17th

WiFi / Bluetooth Technologies
A dream come true: 802.11g (54Mbps) WiFi for handhelds