Wikipedia mobile access
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[edit] Overview
Wikipedia can be accessed on a mobile reading device either offline or online:
- Offline Reading: requires to download one or a set of files, which have been converted from the Wikipedia database. This is the case the German version of Wikipedia using MobiPocket Reader or Webaroo. The iPod also has Wikipedia support called encyclopodia.
- Online Reading : requires a wireless connection to access a given Wikipedia article from the reading device, using via a server proxy. Wikipedia articles can be read either using a mobile web browser or a custom client application. Example include Upvise or Wapedia.
[edit] Different Solutions
Wikipedia content can be accessed from a mobile device or eBook device with the following solutions
- MobiPocket : provides access of the German version of Wikipedia. Works on any platform running Mobipocket Reader, including the Iliad eBook device. http://www.beam-bibliothek.de/ebook.php?id=144
- Upvise : provides access of the english version of Wikipedia, using a custom mobile application. Available for any Java, Symbian (J2ME), Windows Mobile, Blackberry phones and Google Android.
- Wapedia : provides access via any mobile web browser from a mobile phone
- Amazon Kindle : provides access to english version of Wikipedia via Amazon wireless Whispernet network.
- wikimobile : a Java (j2ME) application for your mobile phone.
