Hameed Yussuph wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Hameed Yussuph wrote:
Hello again, More people are turning to mobile devices and looking
at current trends, the document people still will be viewing on
their mobiles; Symbian, BlackBerry and the ubiquitous Windows
Mobile, are Microsoft proprietary document formats. If the ODF
community is very serious (extremely serious) about dominating the
landscape, then OpenOffice.org needs to consider a mobile version
NOT PORTABLE VERSION.
You're confusing file formats (ODF) with applications (OpenOffice).
There are many applications that work with ODF files, OpenOffice
being but one of them. There may very well be applications for
those devices that support ODF. For example, there will soon be
AbiWord for the Nokia N800 & N810 Internet Tablet. AbiWord supports
ODT files, at least in the desktop version. ODT files are the ODF
format for word processing.
Due to resource limitations, mobile applications tend to be "light
weight", which means they are stripped down, compared to full suites,
such as OpenOffice.
I don't know about you, but besides when I view it on Nokia's website,
I can't actually remember if I have actually seen the two phones you
mentioned above. When I talk about mobile devices, I mean that which
the average Joseph uses. My point is, I for one would like to see
"OpenOffice Mobile" (if there's going to be one). If mobile
applications such as Quick Office can do the job effectively, I don't
see why OpenOffice can't do the same.
The two devices I mentioned are not phones, though they do support voice
over IP. They are full, pocket sized computers, with browser, email and
many other features. As I mentioned writing for a mobile device means
fewer resources are available, to the point where you are writing a new
application, that may share some features with a larger one. Given that
OpenOffice is created and produced by volunteers, with help from some
companies, I don't know that there will be someone available to create
those applications.
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