[maemo-users] N900 features

[From: Mark Haury]

Peter Flynn wrote:
> sebastian maemo wrote:
>   
>> Hi everybody:
>>
>> One of my clients has recently asked me about the possibility to get a 
>> portable computer like my N770... :-)
>>
>> I've talked him about the N900, and despite the price of the unlocked 
>> device, he has asked me to check whether its features would satisfy his 
>> needs...
>>
>> I know how N770 works... but I have almost no idea about N900...
>>
>> I have read the full specs at the Nokia website 
>> <http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-n900/specifications>, 
>> though I'd like to know whether there's any application that enables a 
>> user to open a M$ Office file, (doc or xls type, for example).
>> I think that the answer is no, though that wouldn't be a problem if the 
>> PDF reader works well enough...
>>     
>
> I don't know about the N900, but AbiWord on the N800 has no problem 
> opening .doc and .docx files. And the PDF reader works fine.
Abiword doesn't work for me. I can't get it to open anything other than 
its native proprietary format. I've tried the maemo version, the linux 
version and the Windows version, all with the same results. Maybe your 
experience will be different.

Mark