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Today is the start of the global roll-out of Nokia Reading, an app and service that serves up the written word in your own language on your Lumia smartphone.
This new service takes full advantage of the platform’s design to make reading on-the-go both convenient and visually attractive. As Carolina Milanesi of research firm Gartner recently tweeted:
Nokia continues to differentiate Lumia with services: first Navigation and Music and now Nokia Reading.
Nokia Reading will roll out on a country-by-country basis from this week on the Nokia Lumia 900, 800, 710, and 610. The initial launch countries are France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain and the UK. Others will follow over the rest of the year. Look out for the service in the Nokia Collection in Marketplace over the course of the next few weeks.
The initial version of the service focuses on making it easy for you to find, buy and – most importantly – read a book in your own language. Nokia Reading boasts a wide range of local titles, as well as a large collection of English titles popular across the world, such as The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo; One Day; and The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes, with more being added all the time.
There are also thousands of international classics available for free. To make it easy to choose what to read, books are organised into lists such as Top eBooks and New Releases and categorized into genres. If you already know what you want, full predictive search makes it easy to find what you want by title or author.
While eBooks are becoming a common sight in countries like the US and the UK, they are still in their infancy – or basically unavailable – in many parts of the world. And this is where the strength of Nokia Reading lies: in local language e-reading content.
If you’ve not read a book on a phone before, you may think that the words will be too small, but this isn’t something you have to worry about. On a Lumia, the ClearBlack Display helps reduce reflections on the screen, and Microsoft’s ClearType technology renders fonts cleanly, without jagged curves.
Via Nokia Blog
This new service takes full advantage of the platform’s design to make reading on-the-go both convenient and visually attractive. As Carolina Milanesi of research firm Gartner recently tweeted:
Nokia continues to differentiate Lumia with services: first Navigation and Music and now Nokia Reading.
Nokia Reading will roll out on a country-by-country basis from this week on the Nokia Lumia 900, 800, 710, and 610. The initial launch countries are France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain and the UK. Others will follow over the rest of the year. Look out for the service in the Nokia Collection in Marketplace over the course of the next few weeks.
The initial version of the service focuses on making it easy for you to find, buy and – most importantly – read a book in your own language. Nokia Reading boasts a wide range of local titles, as well as a large collection of English titles popular across the world, such as The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo; One Day; and The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes, with more being added all the time.
There are also thousands of international classics available for free. To make it easy to choose what to read, books are organised into lists such as Top eBooks and New Releases and categorized into genres. If you already know what you want, full predictive search makes it easy to find what you want by title or author.
While eBooks are becoming a common sight in countries like the US and the UK, they are still in their infancy – or basically unavailable – in many parts of the world. And this is where the strength of Nokia Reading lies: in local language e-reading content.
If you’ve not read a book on a phone before, you may think that the words will be too small, but this isn’t something you have to worry about. On a Lumia, the ClearBlack Display helps reduce reflections on the screen, and Microsoft’s ClearType technology renders fonts cleanly, without jagged curves.
Via Nokia Blog
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