The great thing about open source softwares is that we wouldn't have to worry at all about purchasing license for each computer, and the best of all is it's free. Like OpenOffice, which has released new v2.4 not long ago.But it lacks the support for mobile devices, especially for smartphones. We can't take OpenOffice on the road, while perhaps you're going to have a meeting with potential clients and you need to review those company's docs one more time for presentation. So this one is for you who own Symbian smartphones, as pointed to me by Mathias Bauer (Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer); there's no OpenOffice for smartphones yet but at least there is an ODF viewer (and editor IIRC) for Symbian devices.
One that provides such app for viewing OpenOffice document files is a freeware from Odendahl SEPT-Solution called Mobile Office, here's the statement taken from its website: "The OpenDocument format is also used by other well known dektop applications such as OpenOffice, StarOffice and KOffice. With Mobile Office, you can read those files on the road without the need to convert them to other formats as well as compromising on formatting and ODF features." Here are some of the features of Mobile Office:
- open OpenDocument text(.odt), spreadsheet(.ods) and presentation(.odp)
- open OpenDocument files directly from email attachments, MMS, Bluetooth, filebrowser as well as webbrowser
- view thumbnail image
get information about subject, title, keywords and other meta information- get statistics about paragraph count, words and pages
- zoom and fullscreen
- search
- view of changes
So far, this free Mobile Office only for Symbian S60 & S80. If you own Symbian S60 3rd edition or UIQ3, you'll have to purchase license for it after you try it for 10 days. (click on each of the OS link to immediately download it to your smartphone) To find out more on which smartphones is this Mobile Office can support, just head to the FAQ page.
[blogged with my Treo 750v]
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