MobileRead Week in Review: 01/22 - 01/29

[Alexander Turcic]

Ladies and Gentlemen, it's time for our weekly roundup of what's new and interesting in the world of mobile gadgets.

Browsers
Opera Mini 1.2 officially available (can it get any more official?)

Current E-Books Trends
Celebrate e-books during Read An E-Book Week

E-Book Readers
DjVu Reader V0.1 for Sony Librie released

E-Book Webstores
Unabridgedbooks offers DRM-free audiobooks

General Chat
DRM: The bigger they are, the harder they fall
Google targeting iTunes, analyst claims
Life after the CrackBerry
Mobile Google features wrap up
Nokia working on mobile phone web servers
Withdrawal pains - a day with "half a Treo"!

Other Gadgets
Belkin CableFree USB Hub takes away the wire from USB
E-Ink cell phone design
GPE Environment V2.7 for Linux PDAs released

Other Readers
Quickipedia: The access-anywhere encyclopedia for your Palm

Palm
Ed Colligan re-confirms commitment to PalmOS
New Palm Addict Newsletter out
Palm Treo 650 1.13 update for Sprint customers
Podcasts: PalmAddict 30 and 1src 59
Thoughts on screen protectors

Pocket PC
Current Dell Axim discounts (35% and up)
Don't ever enter "->" into Pocket Word in Windows Mobile!
PocketUAE Amiga Emulator for PPC updated
Skype for Pocket PC V2.0.0.39 beta released
TCPMP V0.71i adds Nullsoft Streaming Video support

Portable Audio/Video
TV networks snag huge slice of iPod pie

Sunrise
Sunrise XP alpha 3 released