Probably this move must prepare for the market deployment of a brand new Android phone from NTT DoCoMo[J], which is scheduled to start tomorrow, Celsys, a Shinjuku-based developer of e-book online viewer, and Voyager[J], a Shibuya-based e-book and e-magazine publisher, jointly announced today they would release an online publication viewer for Android handsets on the same day.

The viewer app is well-sophisticatedly designed for seeing every frame of every page of the comics so smoothly and for reading novels printed vertically. Voyager has published a number of comic titles and books by themselves, and also released electronic edition of paper-printed magazines and books which have been published by many old-fashioned publishers.

This new app is compatible with their state-of-the-art e-book viewer which has been developed for anti-smartphone handsets, therefore an enormous number of publication titles are standing by for your downloading.

The new app is now being exhibited at Digital Publishing Fair 2009[J], at Tokyo Big Sight, where you can try it on your palm.

Author Information  Masaru IKEDA has co-founded several system integration companies and consulting firms in Tokyo. He has been contributing serial columns to nationwide newspapers and IT periodicals, also he's currently serving as tech consultant for several web companies. His biography is here. His private blog is here.

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