What’s Your Mobile Requirements?
When we’re on the lookout for a new cellphone, we have certain requirements before deciding which brand and model we buy. And that requirements depends on our needs, lifestyle, hobbies, etc. Before going to cellphone shop, it is better that we take a look first the specification of mobile phones on the web before going to see the actial phone units. These are the things I consider:
- Internal or cellphone memory size – the flash memory or the internal memory divided into two parts. The operating system and the user data. The larger the flash memory size, the better. I love browsing the web using Opera, I need large RAM in doing so.
- Multimedia Card or MMC capacity – this is the extended memory of the phone. Some mobile phones doesn’t have or require MMC for many reasons.
- Built-in camera megapixel – usually, older mobile models have lower camera megapixel. I seldom use the built-in camera but when I use it I want quality pictures since I don’t usually bring my digicam.
- Built-in application – most of the sites I browsed doesn’t include the details of the built-in application installed on the unit. I asked for brochures or flyers in the cellphone shops to know these things. (eg. radio, MP3 player)
- OS or Operating System – this is the most important thing you shouldn’t miss!
I Fried My Memory Card!
We all know that eBooks comes with huge file sizes… installing and removing eBook files is also a risk to your phone’s memory card. I’m not saying that this is for eBook file alone but to all files you are putting and removing from your memory card such as applications, games, videos, audios, images and others. Size isn’t always the remedy but large capacity memory cards are a big improvement, except for nokia symbian 60 1st edition system that can’t handle large capacity memory card.
One problem to be aware of – sometimes, but rarely, memory cards do fail and if this should happen to you, think about all the files you will have lost. Its not a pleasant experience.
I still have my old memory card, the one that comes with the mobile phone, its a 64mb MMC. I’ve bought another one with larger capacity. I’m using the old MMC for my back up files (mobile applications and eBooks) so I’m switching from the old one to the new MMC. That was before when I don’t have computer access. Nokia 6630 unit is one of the few units that you can open the MMC slot without turning it off. One time, I was charging my phone (I don’t turned it off while charging) and I noticed that something is wrong with my phone so I need to back up my contacts immediately. I did forgot that I was charging at that time, I’ve swap the MMC without pulling off the charger! The new MMC didn’t work at all. I just laugh with my stupidity, when I’ve realized my mistake. Imagine, I’ve fried my memory card! Its a good thing that I still have the MMC warranty and claim it without telling the supplier what really happened.
These are the few tips on taking care of memory card: (as far as I remember)
- Don’t fried them!
- After several deletion of files, use the compress option using FExplorer
- Defragment using a memory card reader and computer occasionally
- If you are using Opera third party browser, always delete cache, cookies and history after using it
- Back up your files to your computer, to a file host or to your Yahoo briefcase
- Never remove your memory card while application is running. Close all running application first.
- If you had formatted your MMC using a card reader, format it again on your mobile phone.
.RGO?!
I could say that the best format for mobile phones is definitely repligo, no contest to that. Repligo viewers for different devices are totally free to download with no expiration unlike other eBook readers. Repligo file has extension name of rgo, some got confused when they encountered this kind of file type.
The new generation of bookworms will definitely agree with me, rgo indeed is the “almost” perfect format for handheld devices. Almost perfect because with the repligo viewer, its impossible to change the font color (unless the unconverted original file has colored font), font style, background color and the application is compatible to limited handheld devices.
Repligo files are converted from Adobe Acrobat (pdf), Microsoft Word (doc), Rich Text Format (rtf), powerpoint, web page (html) etc. This is the reason why the application cannot change its font color, font style and background color… because it depends on the original format. Whatever the original format it was, when converted into repligo format the quality is still the same and optimized for small screen viewing. Isn’t that great?
If its an eBook, book cover image is sometimes at the first page if you download it somewhere.
How to use it? Install repligo viewer on your MMC or memory card, then restart your handheld device or mobile phone. Open FExplorer, create a folder on your MMC or drive E:\ and name it as “Documents”. Save your rgo files to this folder. The default folder of repligo is folder Documents, you can change it to settings if you want. I prefer to use this folder to organize different formats of eBooks on my mobile phone.
Mobile Settings:
- Flowed - For font size settings
- Zoom – For image viewing
- Go to page – For instant page turning. You can also see the current page and how many pages it have
- Rotation – For landscape or default viewing
- Find – Search a keyword just in case you lose your page. e.g. chapter 12
- Send- You can send your file via bluetooth
When you exit the application, don’t worry. You don’t have to scroll down to the last page where you left off like other ebook application. And when you open the application, it will automatically direct you to the last page you’ve stopped. I became loyal to this mobile ebook application especially when I discovered a forum wherein you can download as many files as you want provided that you’re a member of that forum. Its a sad thing though because the site was gone already…
You can download a free repligo viewer, please do check the compatible handheld devices.
