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Originally Posted by HarryT
Personally, Tommy, I consider an open platform such as Windows Mobile to be a lot more useful as a mobile computing platform than a closed, "locked-down" system such as the iPhone where, even when Apple do get around to allowing 3rd party developers to develop applications for it, it will still be necessary to get "approval" from Apple to allow anyone to install their application on it. I can read virtually any eBook format I wish on my Windows Smartphone - Microsoft Reader, MobiPocket, PalmDoc, RTF, eReader. How many eBook formats can the iPhone read?
But that's just me. Obviously the wonderful merits of the iPhone escape me.
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You are making the assumption that I want to read ebooks on my iPhone, I dont. Secondly, I have owned Windows Mobile platform devices in the past, and my comment was meant to highlight the difference between the iPhone and Windows Mobile. The former having a much better, more intuitive and easy to use interface, all controlled with a finger, not a stylus !! We both know that 3rd party apps will be appearing by the hundreds in 3 weeks or so and will allow ebook reading if one wishes. Lastly I still read this forum every day, despite no Sony Reader in the UK yet, when they do release it (or it escapes) I will almost certainly purchase one. The first downloads will be all the available Dickens books from this site, compiled by you. Thanks for the effort and I hope you didn't take the comments personally, they weren't meant that way.