A possible G phone, small screens vs. large, and rereading classic SF
Links of the moment:
—The Gphone may really happen, and Ammunition Group may be designing it, from Tech Crunch. Another gizmo to display e-books? Remember, FBReader is to run in Android, the Google-blessed OS for cellphones. As with the iPhone, however, we could see many more e-book apps—ideally with the ePub standard among the formats. (Thanks to Mike Cane.)
—On a small screen, just the salient stuff, in the NYT. This is a must-read for writers and publishers. It’s okay to write long on the Web, as I see it, but you’d better get to the point in the headline and use subheads in long posts. For novelists, dialogue may be good, in terms of white space to break up the gray. To answer the inevitable question, the iPhone’s screen is 3.5 inches, though the phone lets you zoom in on, say, individual newspaper columns. My Palm TX’s screen is 3.75 inches. Still, the iPhone and the iPod Touch—I’m buying a used Touch—seems to be where the apps are at.
—Rereading classic science fiction, from Aharon Robbins, a blogger at Intel. "We don’t often realize it when we read current SF works how much they reflect the times in which they are written. I also suppose that when we’re younger (I did a lot of reading in my 20s) we’re not attuned to such larger things either."
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