MobileRead Week in Review: 03/27 - 04/03

[Alexander Turcic]

Here are the highlights from the past seven days of MobileRead:

E-Book Readers
Electronic Paper reviewed

E-Book Webstores
Amazon soon offering Mobipocket e-books?

General Chat
April Jokes
GMail increases storage capacity to 2 GB, anticipates more
Reminder: Still over 1000 Yahoo! 360 invites
Yahoo! 360° 100 invites available!
Yahoo! 360 -2'000 invites- one click away!

New Links
Answers.com Mobile
The World Factbook PDA 0.1

Other E-Book Resources
StoryCode.com - book review database

Other Gadgets
Firefly - innovative mobile phone for kids?
Killer PDAs #1 - Some Thoughts On Gadgets
New Li-ion battery charges to 80% in 60 seconds
Newsclip 1.0 - RSS Reader for Blackberry
Sony PSP Web-browser enabled

Palm
Don't forget: PalmSource announces Q3/05 earnings today
FontSmoother 1.21 released
palmOne TE2 and Zire 73 may hit stores very shortly
palmOne Tungsten C2 hitting stores in April?
palmOne Tungsten E2 hits stores on April 10
PalmSource swung to a loss in Q3 2005
Pics appearing of Palm's "LifeDrive"?
The Magic Lantern open-source media player

Plucker
Vade Mecum 0.6.5 Plucker reader for PPC

Pocket PC
Dell Axim 624MHz for $279
GSPlayer 2.22 update
Mini-Mozilla for PPC 0.4 with fix for Axim X50
MSN Video Downloads launched
NetFront 3.2 for PPC with WM2003SE support released
Pocket Informant 2005 R1 released
PocketScumm V0.71 released
SJphone - Loox 720 built-in VoIP software released
Skype for Pocket PC 1.1.0.4 with VGA support
WebCopier for Pocket PC 4.2 Now Available
Windows Mobile 2005 - another preview

Sci-Fi & Fantasy
2005 Hugo Nominations

Smartphones
Cell-phone virus getting smart
Samsung readies cell phone with Adobe PDF support

WiFi / Bluetooth Technologies
Boeing Connexion in-depth article
Orb Streaming Media now free
ROO Mobile offers free video streaming services
Wireless with a Linux-enabled PDA - new series