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Comment from Milad H on 2008-05-07

2008-05-07T11:23:07Z

Then there's Archos's line of products. Archos 605 WiFi is neat little gadget with 4.3 screen with 16M colours @ 800x480. Its widescreen. Its mainly a PMP, but it can read PDF's, can handle limited Flash and to top it off, it has Wifi. The Wifi has to be purchased separately though. Video playback is outstanding, and has tonnes of features. Battery life is only average though. You'd get either 14hours of music or 5 hours of video.

PDF features are quite limited too; don't use to view graphically heavy PDF's can lag like hell. If your primary use is text, then its fine.

Overall, its a great little product. Comes in 30/80 and 160GB of storage plus a flash version which has 4GB and expansion slot that handles SD/MMC cards.

30GB starts at $270. Don't know about the rest, but that's the one I'm looking at.

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Comment from lex on 2008-01-18

2008-01-18T21:05:02Z

Get a psp, and use Bookr (pdf reader). $120 for a universal system. Use it for gaming, music, video, pdf, macromedia flash/shockwave, (full) internet browser, and the list goes on...

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Comment from jude on 2007-07-20

2007-07-21T06:36:11Z

not sure why the above linked to digg and not to the direct link -
http://designtion.com/labs/2007/07/18/read-any-pdf-on-your-cell-phone/

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Comment from Designtion on 2007-07-19

2007-07-19T21:58:55Z

If you're still looking, designtion has made a web service that converts any PDF to text so you can read it on your cellphone:
http://digg.com/software/Read_Any_PDF_on_Your_Cell_Phone
That way you only need a web-capable device to read PDFs.

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Comment from Nirmala on 2007-06-27

2007-06-27T13:01:03Z

Just came across iLiad iRex for the same. Good features but very pricey and not available in India. :-( Any users and reviews on the product? It has been released only last year.. Check it out on www.mobileread.com

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Comment from Chris on 2007-05-08

2007-05-08T16:42:47Z

Also a big fan of PDF's. I came across the following device:
http://www.archos.com/
They do music,video,wireless, and PDF.

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Comment from Frye on 2007-02-26

2007-02-26T18:37:07Z

Looking for the same thing i even considered a playstation portable with pdf2psp software as a cheap alternative. Until i have seen it in action i wont bother for now though.

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2007-01-04

2007-01-04T19:56:19Z

The sony reader is a black and white device. I've heard mixed reviews, and have decided to avoid it for now, myself.

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Comment from Hiranmoy Kar on 2007-01-04

2007-01-04T19:09:37Z

Can u tell me if the Sony Reader with its E ink technology displays coloured photographs in PDF files? I've searched but all pics I found were showing b&w pages. Do u think Sony Reader is a good portable PDf reader?

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Comment from tarik on 2006-12-21

2006-12-21T20:03:39Z

I checked the sony reader in the shop, and tried many pdf formats. Almost all of them you can not use sony reader to read. It opens the file fine, but you can only zoom once on the document and it is very difficult to read the text in that size. Very very small font, can't zoom in more. I was hoping to read pdf on the go, but haven't heard of such a gadget yet. Thanks

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Comment from peter on 2006-11-26

2006-11-26T19:55:13Z

i just don't understand why such a product is not available. it doesn't seem as if the technology is that insurmountable, or is there more to it than that? but i'm very glad that such an article is available addressing exactly this issue. ideally, if the sony reader could handle pdf in a convenient fashion, that would be terrific.

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Comment from parker on 2006-11-01

2006-11-02T05:42:46Z

I've been thinking that isn't it really a insurmountable task to develop a portalbe reading device. It's not, acutally! In China, there are already a dozen of these tools available. yet pdf still seems inapproachable.

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Comment from Chris on 2006-09-01

2006-09-01T10:11:21Z

check out the new Sony reader coming up soon featuring e-ink technology which makes characters almost look like paper text.

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Comment from Leo on 2006-06-11

2006-06-11T23:22:57Z

Y'all are missing the point of the article. While I agree that Foxit's a good reader (I use it too), it doesn't address the question. The person is looking for a device - not software. Foxit requires Windows, and hence would only work on Windows based solutions - such as the table PC I recommended looking into.

I'd love to hear about alternative *devices* for portable PDF reading.

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Comment from Ivan Tadej on 2006-06-11

2006-06-11T15:56:41Z

Well, I highly recommend the FoxitReader program: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php from Foxitsoftware site, which I am now using instead of Adobe Acrobat Reader for a year or so. Of course, its a portable application, i.e. a single-executable distributed in a .zip archive that requires no special installation (just extract and execute it)

best regards,
Ivan Tadej, Slovenija, Europe
http://users.volja.net/tayiper/ (direct)
http://www.tadej-ivan.be/ (redirect)

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Comment from starvinmarvin on 2006-06-11

2006-06-11T15:40:54Z

Foxit PDF Reader is a free reader for PDF (Portable Document Format) documents. The app launches instantly with no annoying splash screen. You can view and print PDF documents with it. Support for printing, text selection and bookmarks make all typical PDF functions familiar. Installation is optional, so you can run it from a USB drive.

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