Adobe Reader doesn’t need any introduction, does it? Well, you may know that since Adobe pdf is one of the most widely used document formats today, Adobe PDF Reader has been a standard office package for the s60 third edition with the immensely popular Quickoffice.
However as of today, a fully functional Quickoffice continues to elude the s60 fifth edition devices. But, our developer friends at Quickoffice have been good enough to offer Adobe Reader as a stand-alone application. Lets see how this PDF viewer app fares on our Nokia 5800s.
Screenshots:
With Adobe Reader LE v2.5, the developers have responded to some of the most popular requests from the users by improving the memory usage pattern (meaning larger files can be accessed), incorporation of reflow logic (leads to smoother scrolling and viewing) and a more intuitive and easy to use interface.
We have been using Adobe Reader on our 5800s for a while now and very much impressed with its rendering capability offering an optimized viewing experience and with its built in tilt function, users can seamlessly shift between portrait and landscape mode depending on their convenience. Infact eflow view (a mode in which text is reflowed on to the device screen) makes reading through text intensive documents like product manuals a walk in the park.
The reader doesn’t disappoint when it comes to image rendering as well with accurate reproduction of images along with layouts and formatting. Other impressive features include text search, bookmarks and encryption. We can go on an on bragging about the feature set of the impressive Adobe Reader, but we would like our users to get a hang of it.
Key Features:
- Reflow View – Allows an alternate view of the PDF document where text is reflowed on the screen to provide a better viewing experience; a reflowed view eliminates left-right scrolling for text-heavy documents.
- Accurate Rendering – Provides accurate rendering of PDF content, retaining images, complex layouts, and formatting.
- ZoomView – Easy, intuitive navigation that allows for increased legibility of PDF content on small screens.
- Smooth Shading & Transparencies – Supports transparencies and smooth shading (used for smoother tonal gradation) contained in PDF documents.
- Page Rotation – Supports rotation of the PDF content (display only) in 90-degree increments, allowing users to maximize the viewing area on a small screen (for example, going from landscape to portrait maximizes the viewing area for some content).
- Text Search – Supports basic text search in PDF documents.
- Bookmarks – Navigate documents using embedded bookmarks contained in PDF documents.
- Encryption – Supports decryption of files encrypted with up to 128-bit encryption that are password protected.
- Find with advanced find options.
- Embedded Fonts Preloaded with 14 fonts.
- View Document Properties – Ability to view subject, keywords, date created, last modified, file size, author and title.
- PDF Compliant – Supports the latest PDF 1.7 rendering model and specifications.
We can tell you that this Nokia 5800 Adobe PDF Reader does come in very handy. Infact these days we don’t print those e-tickets which are forwarded to us in the pdf formats. We just furnish our 5800s at the ticket counter and straight away collect our boarding passes. Come join us in saving paper and the earth by using the Adobe Reader on your mobile devices.
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 at 6:23 am
wow! i have been looking for this for quite some time. Now i can read my ebooks on mobile.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 at 2:30 pm
In what way is this new as of ‘today’ as the link you gave for download, links back to handango and the comment there is from April where the user states it is in no way different from the s60v3 version and that it is just as slow. Do you have a link to the new one that you mention above please.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 at 3:53 pm
@dani2xll- Back in April when the user made comment on Handango, there was version 2.5.129, the latest one on the file is 2.5.361 which is updated based on the users’ feedback.
Do you believe the user’s comment that 3rd edition and 5th edition have no difference? Is it be possible to run 3rd ed apps on Nokia 5800 perfectly without optimizing them for the touch platform?
Slow rendering depends on the content and how graphically heavy the pdf file is. You can’t open the pdfs as fast on mobile as you open them on PCs as the mobile devices have slow processors when compared to PCs. And PDfs are made to be read on PCs, not on mobiles.
Download the trial and see yourself if its good for you. Cheers!
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 at 6:41 pm
How do you turn the page? do you swipe the screen, scroll it with your fingers, tap the screen or do you have to press on the screen button?
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 at 10:27 pm
@Emerson- You can turn the pages in multiple ways- swiping the screen or with the scroll bar or with the up and down arrow keys as you can see in the screenshots. You can also choose Options- Go to- Page No. to go directly to the page you want.
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
well guys i hv a free full version of the pdf viewer aka acrobat reader jst tell me how to send u guys d file..
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 at 11:17 pm
I’m planning to buy nokia 5800…bcoz its cheap for the functions it claims… I need to read large pdf files (5- 80 MB size) on it. Does the processor speed and RAM of 5800 good enough for that?
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
how to download this PDF Reader???
some1 help me please..
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 at 2:52 am
@aizza sorry but no. When trying to naavigate through larger PDF files it is way too slow and hard to work.
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 at 2:14 am
yes it is too slow
Friday, October 29th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
its lagging in games! no engage system but better than nothing!
if you want 5800 be shure taht its not made in china or arabicus
the main lcd will become blured after using it by passing time!
blue one is better than red! red ones have problems with lcd finger scrolling system! what ever it have a very low cpu! when you want a them for your fav you must install it on the phone memory else it will make your phone speed low! use the uninstaller program for deleting themes! cus you cant do it in theme menu an very more problems like hanking in work! but we must see the full part of cup!
it have a very good things in it! when you buy it you will know about it! so….. bye!