OpenOffice for mobile phones

philippetrov · Newbie Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 1

I am posting just a suggestion for the developers - why don't you force your work to make OpenOffice for mobile phones (java Midp2 platform). It will be awesome and you will kick Msoft asses in advance

9point9 · Moderator Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 3904 Location: UK

A mobile phone isn't a serious editing platform, a viewer is more practical. I don't think this is something that OOo should be doing as it should be done as another project. The OOo codebase is so large that even if the same thing could be compiled to run on a phone it would be so big and heavy that you would not be able to get it on one.

Visioo writer already has OOo file filters and is being ported to Series 60 so will work on phones soon.
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Lazy-legs · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 12:52 am Post subject:

You know what would be really cool? An OOo port for my wrist watch Very Happy

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mbnus · Newbie Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 2

I think OOo for Pocket PC would be fantastic. I already use Softmaker's PlanMaker and TextMaker for composing and editing documents, not just viewing. And I know I am not the only one...

bobharvey · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 3:14 pm Post subject:

I agree. Cal be great on pocketPc, writer & perhaps Draw would be great on Pocket PC[/code]

lkz633 · General User Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 46

An OpenDOcument viewer for mobile devices running Symbian will be released soon.

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Max

lkz633 · General User Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 46

Hi everyone, here are some very new screenshots for you:

http://www.sept-solutions.de/English/office_screenshots.php

Best regards
Max

stefankalte · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:24 am Post subject:

look in case for the portable version
http://portableapps.com/apps/office/suites/portable_openoffice
to use it on the 1 gb usb-stick Wink

or on the big memory in your pocket pc or handheld :shock
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shadow431 · Newbie Joined: 17 Aug 2009 Posts: 1 Location: Seattle, WA

How about an open office mobile version for the Android OS ??

Ed · Super User Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 816

Mobile phone applications need a completely different type of interface from a desktop program. The OOo interface is really not suitable for such a platform.

kichigai · Newbie Joined: 19 Aug 2009 Posts: 1

I'd love to see a mobile equivalent to OpenOffice released. I frequently find myself viewing document sent to me by professors and other students I'm working with. I also often use documents as scratch pads for ideas or concepts, or a spreadsheet to keep an always-up-to-date budget on hand.

If you ask me, a mobile viewer is just insufficient.

And the idea of doing such a thing isn't so crazy. On Symbian there's Mobile Office and eOffice, there's Microsoft Office Mobile for Windows Mobile, and DataViz has Documents To Go on Palm OS (like m68k Palm OS), Windows Mobile, Android and BlackBerry. Since DataViz can get editing of Word, Excel and PowerPoint files onto a BlackBerry (which is based entirely in Java), and that includes the "Open"XML files, why can't the open source community?

Obviously it would need to be an entirely new project, as Ed said, but why not encourage it? I'm not asking for much out of my mobile editors: basic formatting (bullet points, bold/italic/underlined, things like that), and the ability to work basic formulas in a spreadsheet. I wouldn't even dream of asking for a presentation editor, but basic things. Mobility is one of the big things that keeps me from using OOXML files for everything, because being able to easily drag-and-drop a document to/from my BlackBerry is quite important to me, and I'm not a huge fan of paying $70 to do it.