Cool N95 mobile office activities

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 320×240. I would love to be able to have an office application to do 640×480 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.