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While spending some time in the lovely public transportation system, I played a bit with mReader which I had installed on my cell phone (Sony Ericsson T630). mReader is a J2ME RSS reader created by Mark Allanson.

It really worked quite well. Having added a feed from Wired News, I could read through the summaries of their latest articles. Hey, it’s probably more interesting than reading one of the free newspapers, don’t you think?

Reading entire articles (or long blog entries) on that rather small display might get tiring, I guess, but for short summaries and excerpts, I think it works fine. By the way, my subscription provider is Vodafone, and they currently charge fees for reading news on their mobile site (in addition to the GPRS transfer costs, that is). There are no such fees for downloading feeds and reading them instead, which means you have more options of what to read while it’s also cheaper.

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