Java版手机阅读器–Moto-TXT和Anyview比较

Free E-Book Reader on Java Mobile Phone — Comparison of Moto

MicroReader has powerful features, for example the text file viewerand the editor even writing diary, but it is only developed for Siemensmobile phones. More and more people use a mobile phone as an e-bookreader. Although there are not many softwares that combine viewer andeditor together as MicroReader, there are numerous choices of a generalreader . Considering the compatibility of platforms, I prefer thereader developed by java. The moonlight blog discussed the top 5 bestsoftwares for mobile phones several weeks ago and mentioned Moto-TXT,which is an free e-book reader. You guessed it right from its name. Atthe beginning it focused on Motos phones, but now it can be used onmany brands mobile phones. My mobile phone is Moto E680i, but I havenever heard of this software before. So I compare the Moto-TXT with myfavorite free e-book reader Anyview.

the top level menu of the Moto-TXT e-book reader is displayed asabove. You can use the right and left key to nevigate among differentlevels 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 asdelete and rename. Moto-TXT can open plain text files and some types ofpictures(JPG and PNG, except BMP, but if the file size is too large theoperation will be refused). The speed is quite fast.

In my opinion, Moto-TXT e-book reader just provides the basicfunctions, but the final effect is nice. The size of this Moto-TXTinstalled is about 200k. Because it is not certificated software, youneed to enable the read/write manually. Unfortunately, there isn’t anEnglish Version available yet.

My favorite e-book reader is Anyview. At the beginning it justfocused on Moto E680. But Anyview 3.0 can support many different brandsof mobile phones. I install the latest version of Anyiew e-book readerinto Nokia N73 and Siemens CX65, it can work on N73 but I need to keepconfirming to access the file. Maybe I missed one of steps duringinstall. Because I enabled the read/write permission manually on E680iat the first time, there is no annoying alert any more. It can not workon CX65. I guess the reason is Siemens mobile phone itself not Anyview.

Anyview e-book reader allows you to setup the interface languageamong simple Chinese, traditional Chinese, English and Russian. Itprovides more file system operations than Moto-TXT e-book reader, suchas file managemant, copy/paste and extraction.

The original motivation of Anyview e-book reader was to provide morepretty font. The following picture displays the difference between thebuilt-in font and the system default font. Although the bulit-in fontlooks better, you need more than 500k memory to install it.

Except supporting plain text, Anyview e-book reader also supportsUMD 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 ismuch slower than former. The advantage is that you can zoom out thesize of picture to adapt the screen. The author supposed to send thepicture 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 eveninvented a file format called IAV to support documents of mixed textand images on mobile phones. Unfortunately, few people are insterestedto make documents in IAV format). However, as the lastest Anyviewe-book reader is still beta vesion, it has some stability issue. Theapplication may hung up during some operations. For people who caremore about stability, it may be better to use old 0.3 version.

Anyhow, except only suppot Moto E680/A780 mobile phones, the 0.3version Anyview e-book reader doesn’t support file formats like UMDvery 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.