Comparisons with other pda & smart phone Bible s/w appreciated

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However until it [BB-Nokia] ever happens I recommend GoBible

I would greatly appreciate feedback on how GoBible and other Bible software for pda's and smart-phones compares to the Berean Bible study freeware (aka BerBible aka BB). Have you used it on a PPC? How about a Palm Treo?

Following are a suggested list to take into account, in the categories of performance, capabilities, and 'other'.

Timings: how long does the alternative (GoBible, e-Sword-PPC, etc.) take to:

"launch" on the device
display a long chapter like Ps 119 or Luke 1
input the verse-reference to lookup, or the word(s) for which to search
do a 'typical' case-insensitive, all-words search for "Pride fall" (should find several, depending on which translation used)
depending on the s/w search flexibility, do a case-sensitive, exact-match, all-words search for "Pride fall" in the range of Old Testament (Should find only Prov 16:18, depending on which translation used. This can be a relatively time-consuming search ... several minutes with some Palm software.)
compare the "most complicated" search for which BerBible and the other software can both do to get an "apples and apples" comparison (in general, exact match takes longer, case-insensitive takes longer, entire Bible takes longer,
In fairness to GoBible (and other Bible software), BB-PPC has very few "scholarly" capabilities, and negligible "rendering"
BerBible-Desktop and BerBible-PPC both have an "oddball" menu-item for "View + Timings (elapsed ms)" to show ... uh ... elapsed milliseconds in the "Find" button.

Capabilities:

'rendering' ... availability of 'tags' such as bold, supescript, highlighting, 'eye-candy', etc.
scholarly capabilities (Strongs numbering, CrossRefs, commentaries, FootNotes, dictionary lookups, etc.)
resources for free, including modern English Bibles, foreign Bibles, commentaries
resources for pay
advanced searching (does s/w have more or less flexibility compared to BB, such as range limits, phrase, exact matching, regex, verse-spanning, EXCLUDE, BOOLEAN, etc. BB-PPC has less search flexibility than desktop PC version)
split-screen
media
internationalization ... non-English resources, especially Bibles
end-user notes and end-user highlighting (preserved and can be recalled)
other capabilities
other considerations, like download size, ease-of-use, learning curve, etc.

Other considerations:

download size
ease-of-use and learning curve
ease of installation
memory usage and usability from flash-card
support
how convenient or cumbersome to 'refine' search (limit range, case-sensitive, etc.)
whether same resources work on Desktop and smart-device (don't have to pay twice)
whether device software 'works-alike' to version for Windows PC desktop (if available) to reduce learning curve .... (i.e. 'desktop replacement')
whether 'works-alike' for Linux and/or Mac desktop
open source vs closed source (BB is closed source to facilitate publisher permissions)
ongoing maintenance ... new releases to 'keep up with the times'
reliability .... presence or absence of crashes, hangs, glitches, flaws, etc.
other?

Here is a list of "vendors" of which I am aware have Bible software for 'devices' (pda's and smart-phones)

Laridian
Olive Tree
e-Sword for the PPC
SwordReader
GoBible
WORDSearch
others?

Here is a list of "platforms" for which Bible software is available:

Nokia (used to be 3 different platforms ... maybe more now ... development done in C++)
Palm, especially Treo (development done in C++, maybe other languages like micro-Java)
BlackBerry (micro-Java)
iPhone (? ... Objective-C? ... Object-Pascal? ... my impression is that it is relatively 'closed') ... looked very good for the 2 minute demo I saw
Google G1 (C++?)
Mobile 5/6 devices without touch-screen and/or QWERTY keyboard (BB-PPC doesn't work on these yet)
others

See this post for links to 'animated slideshows' that illustrate BerBible-PPC and BerBible-Palm in use.
http://berbible.org/forums/index.php?topic=3.0

See this link for a FAQ regarding "Other Bible Software". I have always acknowledged that BerBible is not for everyone. Depending on your specific situation, expectations, and requirement, there may well be better 'fits'.)
http://www.berbible.org/faq_other_software.php

See this link for a FAQ regarding "Road Map of Envisioned Enhancements" (primarily related to version for Windows PC desktop)
http://www.berbible.org/faq_roadmap.php