Is Nokia developing an iPhone Clone? Maybe

Reader Carlos Coimbra pointed us to a HitNews article which shows a purported iPhone response from Nokia, the N98, that looks very much like Apple's iPhone.

HitNews list some specs of the N98 as:

7.2 mega pixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens
* Optical zoom x5 and digital zoom x20
* 3.5 inch VGA 16 million color touch screen
* GPS
* Symbian S70 3rd edition (now that would be something)
* Graphics accelerator
* Bluetooth/WIFI b+g+n/HSDPA

It seems unlikely to us but check out this Web page and judge for yourself. [Bill Fox]

[7/6] GhostReader 1.1 (Universal) is Out from ConvenienceWare

AssistiveWare/ConvenienceWare released GhostReader text-to-speech software for Mac OS X. GhostReader 1.1 replaces TextParrot 1.0 and introduces a number of new features with an enhanced user interface. Just as ghostwriters write for other people, GhostReader can read for you!

GhostReader is a Universal Binary, multilingual speech solution for Mac OS X that allows users to listen to their documents with naturally sounding voices in a language of choice. It also allows users to create their own personal podcasts or audio books by exporting to iPod-ready iTunes tracks. Or, users can just use it to speak selected text in a handy reader window with play, fast forward and rewind functionality. In some applications, such as Safari, GhostReader enables users to listen to text by just pointing the cursor at the text. Now users can sit back and relax while GhostReader reads the text under the cursor.

Voices are currently available for the following languages: US English, UK English, Czech, Finnish, French, Canadian French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, American Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Norwegian, Turkish and Swedish. GhostReader itself is localized in English, French and German.

GhostReader 1.1 offers the following new features:

• New languages with high quality female voices: American Spanish (Rosa) and Canadian French (Louise)
• New languages with medium quality voices: Turkish, Icelandic and Czech
• New high quality voices for Dutch (Max) and British English (Peter)
• Adds a German localization (English and French were already available)
• Enhanced listening experience with buttons to re-listen the current paragraph or sentence or to skip to the next one
• For school use preferences can now be locked and the content of the reader window can be exported to an RTF document
• Many other interface and usability enhancements
• Expanded Help facility
  

GhostReader is a free and recommended update for registered TextParrot users (users can simply enter their TextParrot activation codes). For retail pricing see ConvenienceWare's Web site. [Bill Fox]