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Originally Posted by nekokami
I suppose if the SDK for the iPod Touch really does come out in February, the suitability of the iPod Touch (or the iPhone, for that matter) as an ebook reader could change very quickly. As I understand it, a stock Touch can only read books served from a web server through wifi, but I would guess that will change with the release of the SDK. And if FBReader (with new ePub support) is ported to the Touch, I think it could be quite a contender. I'm pretty sure my daughter (the ebook and web page junkie) would want one. Badly.  |
As someone put it the iTouch is the iPhone without the phone and the camera
. Regarding the sdk, that is my hope too, since then applications will be more polished; already in the hacked state and there are tons and tons of applications.
This is where the difference in popularity between the iPhone and say Nokia is very clear; Nokia 7-800 series is open and in the 2.5 years since appearance there are some cool applications that appeared and were ported between OS 2006, OS 2007 and now OS 2008; but the Iphone in several months and hacked at that and generated more applications already...
Fbreader on the iPhone/Touch would be definitely nice.