Kindle's New Challenger Brings E-Books to iPhones
Tue, Feb 10th, 2009 |
Amazon's new E Ink-powered Kindle 2 is all the rage right now, but a Canadian bookseller is confident it can give you the same experience on your smartphone, and without the hefty pricetag.
Shortcovers -- occasionally touted by its makers as "the Kindle Killer" -- is set to launch in the coming days as an app for the iPhone, the BlackBerry, and the Android operating system. So can it really live up to its king-sized claims? Read on and decide for yourself.
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