Recommended Smartphone for Reading PDFs [closed]
- by mika
This is as much a software than a hardware question.
I use a lot of public transport and perhaps the best way to spend your time there is to read while listening to music.
Currently I use Nokia E90 and Adobe Reader LE 2.5 (full version).
I was wondering if there are any better alternatives?
Requirements:
at least 640px wide screen,
preferably 800px
physical size of the LCD display matters, it should be large, but the phone itself should be as small as possible. This favors touchscreen models
PDF reader should be of high quality. It should render most PDFs correctly. Other important features include: full screen mode, keyboard controls for Page Down and page change, multiple zoom levels to adjust to the screen, opening recent documents at the last page read
Downsides of E90 + Adobe Reader LE
Phone is large compared to the display
It is hard to read the display at sunlight
Adobe Reader crashes the phone regularly, zoom could have more levels, doesn't remember last page
EDIT: Switched to iPhone and GoodReader. Smaller physical screen width compared to E90 is a disimprovement, but other than that I'm happy. GoodReader is the highest quality smartphone PDF reader I've seen so far.
