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How come the $750 Nokia N95 won’t edit documents out of the box?

Categories: Ideas and rants
By: , IntoMobile
Monday, April 9th, 2007 at 12:08 PM

To my knowledge, and please correct me if I’m wrong, the N95 only comes with an Office Documents viewer.

Not editor. Viewer.

Just because it’s an N series and not an E series why do we have to assume that people don’t want to make quick modifications to a doc file?

Windows Mobile 2006 Standard and Professional have this capability built in.

Since Open C is now apart of S60, why not start porting Open Office?

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Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Viipottaja

    It could be that Nokia (foolishly?) thinks that E Series is in competition with Windows Mobile users (which Nokia apparently assumes are mostly business users), where as N Series is not. In their thinking N Series is for the consumer market, for people who are all about multimedia, entertainment and having fun with gadgets (and therefore not into working on docs on their phones… I mean multimediacomputers).

    Just speculating, but that’s how the thinking process might have gone.

  • Ricky Cadden

    @Viipottaja – you’re absolutely right. Nokia has obviously made some artificial separation between the N-series and E-series to uphold those differences. Same thing with Team Suite and Access Point Groups.

  • geekonimus

    My E65 came with viewers only. I was a bit miffed.

  • lutzs

    Ouh it’s calles Windows Mobile 5 oder Windows Mobile 6 – there’s no Windows Mobile 2005/2006… It’s like S60 and Series 60 ;)