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Originally Posted by =X=
cool keep us posted
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Ok, well you asked! Turns out Mobipocket for Storm 2 is still in beta. I installed it, added one book, and got "app error 523". According to every forum I found, this meant the app crashed the O/S and I was going to have to reinstall everything. Fortunately, I hadn't installed anything else or added my contacts....
I tried rebooting the phone, and got no response from it. I put it down to grab the CD that came with the phone, and when I got back it had rebooted and things seem to be fine now. I did add another book, and the reading experience on this is MUCH better than I expected. You know, with twice as much screen, I expected a two times better experience, instead I got at least a TEN times better experience. For fiction (which is 99.9% of what I read), this is great! It will by no means replace my Asus for reading at home, but out on the go, this has just become my "go to" reader.
I put the phone on top of a printed page of a standard paperback. If you don't count the space for margins, it's only about 3/4 of an inch per side smaller than the print area on that page. Definitely readable.
The only other thing with the Storm 2 and Mobipocket is the page turning mechanism. You swipe from right to left across the bottom of the screen, which seems backwards to me. I'm so used to the trackball on the Curve, where you can scroll up or to the right to turn pages.
(Descending into philosophy here, stop reading if you like
). I still can't get used to my cellphone as multifunction device. With the old one, it replaced my mp3 player almost instantly. This one, besides still being fantastic for that, has just filled my need for a reader that I can take anywhere. It came with a 16 gig SD card - that will store more than all the books and music I'll ever need to take with me anywhere. All I need now is a bluetooth headset/headphone gadget that both plays music and accepts calls (if there even is such a thing!).