Mobile office and the N95
The N95 enables you to do some very nifty mobile office activities. There are two ways:
On the Phone:
- You can run software on the phone and use a bluetooth keyboard and do the office thing. Nice to use the TV-out, too keep the crick out of your neck. You can run QuickOffice and do the office thing. Write e-mail, webbrowse etc.. Edit movies, pictures and so forth...
- You can run remote desktop clients and servers on the phone (RDM+, VNC). Access pc's by remote or the phone by remote (very cool). It does not however gives you a
resolution above 320x240. I would love to be able to have an
office application to do 640x480 via tv-out or get cracking with VGA and hook op a TFT in a internet cafe.
- You can run MySMB on the phone, a SMB server, and share you N95 drives (internal memory drive, system drive and memory card drive) via the Windows Networking protocol (CIFS/SMB). You can even define users and groups that have access to different drives. The SMB-client feature is due begin july 2007. Mounting the shared drives from you NAS or M$ Windows-PC
From the Phone using it as a usb-stick:
- There is loads of software that can run standalone from a usb-stick and that keeps
all the files on a USB-stick, this is also valid for a N95. There is OpenOffice, Skype, Firefox/Mozilla, Gaim for IM. Most are available for the Windows and Linux platform I.e. check the Portable Apps
website for their listing of software. There are other websites too.
- Very cool is TrueCrypt. To mount a encrypted virtual partion from your usbstick as a separate removable drive under Windows or Linux. Sadly there is no port for the N95 to allow the N95 read the encrypted virtual partition on the memory card.
- Using Standard Edition Java (Mobile phones run Micro Edition Java), there are loads of java applications that run on almost all major desktop platforms. Not only office software, but X-servers, Ssh, p2p software, Latex, image and music collection players and manager. Access to remote database and so forth. JDisto i.e. is a Java Destop enviroment. Although still a bit in the early stages. Many of these applications have Java Micro Edition counterparts for on the phone.
Bill Gates said: "640K ought to be enough for anyone.". NO it is not. Especially not for Windows Vista. But you can do a lot with 640K and a heck of a lot more with the N95, if you realise the there's 20MB's of RAM and 330 MHz clockspeed with a 3D-graphics accelleration.
Envision your own mobile solution and see if Google can find it ;-)
Comments
Dual CPU
Refering to the OMAP platform for the S603rd edition feature pack 1. Well described in an Mobile Review article.CPU Type: ARM 11
CPU Clock Rate: 332 MHz
3D Graphics HW Accelerator
OMAP 2420 retains all strengths of OMAP 2 architecture. The model makes use of ARM11 architecture, unlike the ARM9-based predecessors built on OMAP 1710. Chipset 2420 takes advantage of ARM1136JS-F (330MHz) CPU core, TI TMS320C55x™ Digital Signal Processor (DSP) (220MHz), and also of a 2D/3D MBX/VGP accelerator incorporated into the crystal. Improvements of multimedia capabilities have taken place due to addition of an accelerator dealing with image and video rendering, support for multi-megapixel (4+) camera modules, TV video output, recording and playing back MPEG4 videos captured in VGA resolution at 30 frames per second.
Detailed specifications are available here.
The newer chipset might not be recognized by older programs. Als with the Pocket PC the clockspeed might be variable to conserve battery power.
Most likely the processor speed is determined by detecting chipset identification, not the actual clockspeed. Far more interesting than the clockspeeds are the benchmarks:
Benchmarks by Mobile Monday
Sadly we are out performed by the N93 :-( You can do your own and download the benchmark application from Future Mark.
Memory fragmentation, background activity etc. can create differences between individual testruns. Doing 10 or more measurements each one with a freshly rebooted phone would give of course the best scores.
In any case you want all other circomstances between the phones to be identical for a scientific approach.
I don't know about the settings of Mobile Monday. Still looking at Future Mark Result Browser, the N95 seems to be top dog. About roughly a third faster than the P990i (fits with the clockspeed difference between the ARM 9 and ARM11).
Your results however seem awfully high. You did not run SPMark for Symbian OS v9 instead by mistake? Why not do some more tests and write a nice post about it?
- Nokia N95 3654 or less
- Nokia 5200 3495 or less
- Nokia N93 3037 or less
Note that the difference is about 20% ;-) Not that this is the JAVA test! The 5200 is a righteous java machine too.
SPMark for Symbian OSv9 just scored a SPMark 3D of 6833 on my N95. So that ranks with the N93. Seems little difference.
Maybe Open Office could be split up so that the user could choose the bits they want to run. I could happly live with just the word pro and the Powerpoint ed.
I opened my first PDF the other day and was pretty impressed.
I kind of wish the screen had a bit more resolution for the rendering of the text.
The width of an A4 page was not quite legible.
3d game: 71.83fps
3d fillrate 26.33mtelexs/s
3d polycount 534.19 k.triangles
i want to use office outlook from N95 so how can i use the outlook,
thank you.
- Sync with outlook via nokia sync, use gsm agenda and phonebook
- Use webmail from outlook via N95 webbrowser.
- Third party app? Look in Download!->Productivity. Mail for Exchange, Emoze? Read their documentation very careful!