Free E-Book Reader on Java Mobile Phone — Comparison of Moto-TXT and Anyview
MicroReader has powerful features, for example the text file viewer and the editor even writing diary, but it is only developed for Siemens mobile phones. More and more people use a mobile phone as an e-book reader. Although there are not many softwares that combine viewer and editor together as MicroReader, there are numerous choices of a general reader. Considering the compatibility of platforms, I prefer the reader developed by java. The moonlight blog discussed the top 5 best softwares for mobile phones several weeks ago and mentioned Moto-TXT, which is an free e-book reader. You guessed it right from its name. At the beginning it focused on Motos phones, but now it can be used on many brands mobile phones. My mobile phone is Moto E680i, but I have never heard of this software before. So I compare the Moto-TXT with my favorite free e-book reader Anyview.
the top level menu of the Moto-TXT e-book reader is displayed as above. You can use the right and left key to nevigate among different levels of menu, and the up and down key to nevigate in the same level.
Moto-TXT e-book reader can have some file system operations, such as delete and rename. Moto-TXT can open plain text files and some types of pictures(JPG and PNG, except BMP, but if the file size is too large the operation will be refused). The speed is quite fast.
In my opinion, Moto-TXT e-book reader just provides the basic functions, but the final effect is nice. The size of this Moto-TXT installed is about 200k. Because it is not certificated software, you need to enable the read/write manually. Unfortunately, there isn’t an English Version available yet.
My favorite e-book reader is Anyview. At the beginning it just focused on Moto E680. But Anyview 3.0 can support many different brands of mobile phones. I install the latest version of Anyiew e-book reader into Nokia N73 and Siemens CX65, it can work on N73 but I need to keep confirming to access the file. Maybe I missed one of steps during install. Because I enabled the read/write permission manually on E680i at the first time, there is no annoying alert any more. It can not work on CX65. I guess the reason is Siemens mobile phone itself not Anyview.
Anyview e-book reader allows you to setup the interface language among simple Chinese, traditional Chinese, English and Russian. It provides more file system operations than Moto-TXT e-book reader, such as file managemant, copy/paste and extraction.
The original motivation of Anyview e-book reader was to provide more pretty font. The following picture displays the difference between the built-in font and the system default font. Although the bulit-in font looks better, you need more than 500k memory to install it.
Except supporting plain text, Anyview e-book reader also supports UMD format of Nokia’s Symbian system, HTML, PDB format of Palm system.
Anyview e-book reader also can open ZIP file to display the content directly.
Anyview e-book reader supports some types of pictures such as JPG, PNG and so on. Comparing with Moto-TXT, the speed of opening picture is much slower than former. The advantage is that you can zoom out the size of picture to adapt the screen. The author supposed to send the picture by MMS, but this option is invalid in my E680i.
It seems that Anyview is getting closer to the author’s ambition — make the best e-book reader on Java mobile phones (the Author even invented a file format called IAV to support documents of mixed text and images on mobile phones. Unfortunately, few people are insterested to make documents in IAV format). However, as the lastest Anyview e-book reader is still beta vesion, it has some stability issue. The application may hung up during some operations. For people who care more about stability, it may be better to use old 0.3 version.
Anyhow, except only suppot Moto E680/A780 mobile phones, the 0.3 version Anyview e-book reader doesn’t support file formats like UMD very well and it needs more than 300k to install.
The Anyview 0.3 can send a captured section of a text file via msg, but this function disappears from the version 3.0. I have no idea why.
Translated from Java版手机阅读器–Moto-TXT和Anyview比较
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E-Book Reader on Java Mobile Phone — Comparison of Moto-TXT and Anyview thanks for this post!
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E-Book Reader on Java Mobile Phone — Comparison of Moto-TXT and Anyview is a quite interesting post but quite difficult to understand for me.
Thanks for interest in this post.
Maybe the reason of difficult to understand it is because I translated it from Chinese. It could be better I rewrite from scratch.
Could you please tell me which part is difficult for you to understand?
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