In article <Xns9AD2EC7A047EAnoonehomecom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Larry <noone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> David Friedman <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:ddfr-
> D18789.16402705072008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > In article <050720081329587530%nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > nospam <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >
> >> there are also apps on the iphone that don't exist on other
> platforms.
> >> pick the device that best suits your needs and let others choose what
> >> works for them.
> >
> > Is there currently a good way of using the iPhone as a word
> > processor/book reading device? That's one of the things I want a
> > smartphone for.
> >
> > When the 3G iPhone was announced, there was an announcement from a
> firm
> > that apparently had a sort of office suite for it, but I don't know if
> > they have actually delivered or not.
> >
> > (googling around) Possibly Glide OS 3.0?
> >
>
> David, the FruitFone has no I/O other than what the carrier wants to
> sell you. Its USB ****t simply isn't implemented to transfer user files
> to/from other systems and the ****t is incapable of being put in host
> mode so the FruitFone could act like a real computer, to output the word
> processed do***ent to a printer, for instance. It's bluetooth
> capability is also hobbled up which prevents you from using a bluetooth
> connection to a BT printer or other computer for do***ent output,
> storage and printing. Your choice is to email it in and out, or
> possibly if it's allowed and sup****ted, move it in and out through the
> awful itunes syncronizer nannybot.
>
> Ebooks are probably way too big for emailing.
That is not the case. I routinely email people the full text of books,
and receive the full text of books in email. It would be a little slower
with a 3G iPhone, since I gather it's slower than the broadband
connection I usually use, but still entirely doable.
Having to use email to get material in and out would be a minor
nuisance, but only a minor one.
> I'm not sure how big a
> file you can move over FruitTunes, but I suspect the carrier, hell bent
> on limiting data transfers to devices they control to boost profits,
> will have a low limit or tolerance for huge file transfers.
The text of a book isn't a huge file. A short novel, even in Word, is
less than a meg.
> For ebooks on the move, I'd suggest a Nokia N800 Linux tablet (around
> $200).
Which isn't a cell phone and doesn't connect to the web unless you
happen to have WiFi access. It's also a little big for the pocket,
although not unusably so. What I want is a pocket sized device that
combines phone, web appliance, and pda, with the pda used in part for
reading and light editing of books--marking things I want to change in
my own manuscripts. The iPhone seems pretty good for the first two
purposes, although a higher resolution screen and a physical keyboard
would be nice, and I was wondering how much of the third could be
squeezed into it.
....
> Of course, you'll need to make margin notes, highlight text with your
> yellow highlighter and be able to make any kind of hand drawings on
> those PDF ebooks, I suppose. So, you'll need Xournal, another great
> Linux program ****ted to the Maemo platform:
I don't use pdf. I generally use Word or the equivalent--my Nokia 9300,
which is my current cell phone, will read and write word compatible
files.
....
> For word processing, nothing beats Abiword, a part of Open Office Suite
> on Linux. Abiword is freeware from thousands of coders working on it
> for years. You can run Abiword on:
I currently run Open Office on my eee PC, under Linux. It's a nice
machine, but it doesn't either fit in my pocket or connect to cellular
networks.
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