Kindle coming to Windows Mobile
So claims the tea-leave readers at Businessweek, who are looking at Amazon’s Kindle strategy and clues from their job postings.
Windows Mobile users have been missing out on many services which Amazon has provided to other smartphone OS’s, such as the Amazon MP3 store on Android or the Kindle app for the iPhone.
Amazon has however been expanding its team of mobile engineers and also gaining outside help from acquisitions. The goals may be to sell new programs that can run on Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader, make Amazon’s digital titles available for more devices, and ring up revenue from sales of mobile applications, say several software executives and analysts.
An executive at one mobile-phone software vendor also says Amazon may be considering making its Kindle mobile bookstore available for a greater range of handheld computers. In March the store became accessible via an iPhone app.
Amazon lists 17 open mobile-related positions on its Web site, including for software engineers, a senior product manager for mobile payments, and a director of mobile applications. One job ad says Amazon expects its hire to "develop partnerships with mobile companies." Another posting seeks applicants who can write programs for Microsoft’s (MSFT) Windows Mobile operating system.
Amazon declined to comment on its mobile-software ambitions. "We don’t discuss future plans or developments," spokeswoman Cinthia Portugal says in an e-mail to Businessweek.
Read more at Businessweek here.
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I just bought a Kindle – tired (embarassed) of stacks of Wall Street Journals in my home and office – it is fantastic to read because of the matte finish of the screen, resolution and no back lighting. BUT…
…for newspaper reading, the Kindle is frustrating because there is no interacting with what you have just read other than to “clip it” to a folder. You can’t email an article to your friends – or even book mark it in Delicious. You can’t subscribe to RSS feeds and the limited nimber of blogs on offer are monthly pay subscriptions.
I won’t go on with the rest of my Kindle rant but I will say that if HTC comes up with something Kindle-like (big screen, high resolution non-back-lit) that also lets me interact with what I am reading and gives me access to newspaper and magazine subscriptions and RSS feeds, I’ll buy it in half-a heartbeat. And I will also say that Kindle software on my WinMob phone – that lets me put down the Kindle unit and pick up – on my phone – where I left off would be very cool.
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well, kindle somehow is not wm, right? the big advantage of kindle is the e-ink energy saving screen. this is not wm.
breaking it down, it is “only” an app which makes the kimble content available. and if, as richard said it, there is no way for bookmarks, etc this is pretty lame.
for fans of e-reading on 2,4″ screens i recommend the mobipocket reader, or even the free app plucker (plkr dot org), in combination with the gutenberg project (gutenberg dot org), where you can download the mobile version of pluckr.
right, you do not get recent content. thats a point. but if you have a regular subcription for some e-papers and get them as pdf, you might be able to transform them into the mobile format for plucker.
for blogs and newspages etc i only use the inbuilt rss-hub. works pretty well, even supports podcasts. of all rss-readers i checked, this one is imo the best.
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