I've mentioned before the idea of using a mobile phone as a device for storing data etc but I'm not sure how well it would work.
So far it works really well. Especially the more 'smart' the phone.
Is it possible to stick a word or adobe document onto a standard mobile phone, as opposed to one of these all singing and dancing i-phones? Seems to me it could be an ideal way to have a book or two with you wherever you are.
Word is a bit of an issue, I think, but PDF's with a bit of checking should be alright. The problem comes in the lack of options in the format, or the variety of PDF's.
I prefer HTML. Which is basically a word doc, but you write in the formating. A lot more phones, and other devices now have some form of basic browser. A couple of tips, keep it simple, and use percent as your measure.
Nokia 6600
This link goes to someone doing a lot of different things to the older Nokia 6600, this is not an all singing and dancing phone, by any means.
One of the things I would like to end up with is, two devices, that use the same memory card, with usb charging. That way I could have a PDA(Game player, MP3 player, etc), and a PDA-style phone, using the same info. It would mean I could double up, or back up different abilities, like GPS. The problem is that you actually need three devices if you are going to carry a decent camera, and then that adds another device to find that uses the same card. It well be interesting to see what happens know that we have the new 8mp camera phones.
One of the big problems with this, is the only company that make devices that I really like, is Sony, and they have the biggest pain of a memory card, or do things that limit other peoples access. The PSP would be perfect but for memory stick(which I could live with), and UMA discs(Which is just stupid).
You would have thought publishers would have jumped on the ebook format, but it has got to be a shock to them, for the first time in history books are piratable.
