Mobile devices

From MobileRead

This is a list of Mobile Devices in no particular order.

1 EBook Dedicated Readers
2 Cell phones and PDAs
3 Larger Devices
4 PMP Devices

[edit] EBook Dedicated Readers

These can be found under E-book devices

[edit] Cell phones and PDAs

PalmOS PDAs Personal Digital Assistants running the Palm Operating System
PocketPCs Personal Digital Assistants running the Microsoft Windows Mobile Operating System
Smartphones Cell phones incorporating additional functions. These can be running any of several operating systems and programs (E-book readers) that you can use depending on the operating system.
Cell phones Many modern low end cell/mobile phones have a java J2ME runtime environment, these can support eReaders.
Symbian Smartphones A PDA or smartphone running the Symbian OS. This typically supports Java as do some of the other OS's. Note that Symbian replaced Psion.
WindowsCE A palmtop PDA platform similar to PocketPC devices but without the standardization of functions that PocketPC provides. Note that the Window Mobile OS running on Pocket PC devices is a superset of the basic WindowsCE OS.
Windows Mobile Smartphones The is a cell-phone operating system that differs from the standard Windows Mobile in that it is designed to support the smaller screens on many of these devices (240x240) and the lack of a touch screen. Note that cell-phones with a touch screen usually run the PocketPC Windows Mobile OS.
Linux - A stripped down version of the Linux OS running on PDA devices such as Sharp Zaurus although there are also Linux OS ports to some iPAQ units.
BlackBerry This is a popular cell-phone OS and email messaging system from RIM.
iPhone is a cell-phone from Apple running mac OS with much added functionality. They also have a similar product without the cell-phone functionality called iPod Touch.

The thing that this list has in common is that they are all mobile devices or mobile devices OS's that can use add-on or built in programs to read e-books but this is not generally their primary function. They typically have smaller screens than those used on dedicated eBook readers.