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OpenOffice.org for IPhone?
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:13 pm
by Mahonri85
Since they have created such a great Office Suite for PCs, I was wondering if they had plans to create an App for the IPhone as well??
Re: OpenOffice.org for IPhone???
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:15 pm
by TheGurkha
None that I know of, I doubt whether this will ever happen. The development effort would be massive.
Re: OpenOffice.org for IPhone???
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:21 pm
by leipzig
yah... be careful : on the other side : Microsoft Office Coming to the iPhone...
http://www.pcworld.com/article/162472/m ... phone.html
microsoft took the control of the desktops in companies (over all unixes) thanks essentially the microsoft-office.
they'll try the same with the mobile phones.
Re: OpenOffice.org for IPhone???
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:13 pm
by floris v
I toyed with an iphone yesterday. Lovely look & feel. I just can't imagine why the designers stuck to the querty-layout of the keyboard. It's not as if they expect people typing with ten fingers on it, right?
Re: OpenOffice.org for IPhone???
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 4:43 pm
by Oogiem
OK Rather than a full up editable version why not a reader for open office files on the iPhone/iPod Touch as a minimum?
Or something like Documents to Go that works with Open Office files?
How did Docs to Go deal with the problem? I know it worked on Palm OS and other small OS /handheld systems so why not an Open Office version?
Re: OpenOffice.org for IPhone???
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 6:38 pm
by PGAGA
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Oogiem wrote:Or something like Documents to Go that works with Open Office files?
How did Docs to Go deal with the problem? I know it worked on Palm OS and other small OS /handheld systems so why not an Open Office version?
Doc2Go works great on the Touch and has just released for the iPad. I use the Word97 format to go between it and OOo versions.
Phil
Re: OpenOffice.org for IPhone???
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 11:11 pm
by Oogiem
How do you move spreadsheets? My OO Calc things are too big and don't work in Excel, that was one reason I moved to OO initially.
Re: OpenOffice.org for IPhone???
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 11:24 pm
by TheGurkha
Oogiem wrote:so why not an OpenOffice version?
The short answer is because there is hardly sufficient development resource to do what uis being done now, without adding another platform and environment to support.
You do know we're not the developers? Just users trying to help other users. The developers don't hang out here.
Re: OpenOffice.org for IPhone???
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 2:15 am
by PGAGA
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Oogiem wrote:How do you move spreadsheets? My OO Calc things are too big and don't work in Excel, that was one reason I moved to OO initially.
I only use excel file format for spreadsheets but my files are small.
Phil
Re: OpenOffice.org for IPhone?
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:11 am
by Iva123
Hello,
I also use Excel file format for spreadsheets ....
Regards
Iva
OpenOffice.org for Nokia N900 phone (does work nicely)
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 10:45 am
by sswam
I wouldn't buy an Apple iPhone because they are very unfriendly to developers, saying you can't use the programming language of your choice, only C, C++, Obj C or JavaScript, and you're not allowed to have root access. So, Apple can go to hell. I bought a Nokia N900 phone which runs Maemo Linux, based on Debain, and I am very happy with it. OpenOffice does not yet run directly in Maemo although it would be possible to port it. However there is an "Easy Debian" package which installs a true Debian system in a chroot. The image comes with OpenOffice, GIMP and some other apps, and it should be possible to install fairly much any binary package from Debian/ARM in this chroot. I have overclocked the N900 to 1.15 Ghz using the "power-kernel" package (with no ill effects), and OpenOffice performs well at this speed, and tolerably at the default speed of 600Mhz.
So, throw your un-open iPhone into the sea, and get a N900!