After having used my 9500 for quite some time, I've found myself becomming increasingly annoyed with the limitations of the built-in applications. On paper everything looks ok, but in practical use they all fall short in one way or another. Some more than others.
I view the 9500 as a potential laptop replacement for people like me who travel a lot and like to travel light. And from a hardware perspective it COULD be just that - ideal formfactor, long battery life, superb connectivity and good processing power/memory - but the software is not quite up to the task.
To be fair, Nokia does state that the communicator is not designed to be a laptop replacement for mobile office work, but meant more as a supplementary mobile terminal. Which is a bit sad, now that they have designed a hardware that is obviously capable of so much more.
But of course there are the third party software vendors, which brings me to the reason for this post. What would the ultimate software suite for the 9500 look like?
I've browsed the forums, reviews and Google and came up with the following list...
Basic apps.
E-mail : Profimail
Calendar / Contacts : Aqua Calendar
Browser : Opera Mini
Wordproc. : Datawiz Documents To Go
Sheets : Datawiz Documents To Go
Presentations : ?
Media Player : ?
Desktop : SymbianWare Powerdesk
Extras
Map : TomTom Mobile 9500
PDF : Adobe Reader
Database : EpocWare PowerData
Archive : EpocWare Zip Manager
E-book reader : MobiPocket Reader
World Clock : Mobimate WorldMate
FTP client : Y-ftp
Finance : RMR Bank
Wallet : SymbianWare PowerSafe
HotSpot Finder : Psiloc Hotspot Finder
I should point out that this is not merely a philosophical experiment on my part. I plan on assembling a software suite for my 9500 to replace the built-in apps and hopefully get the functionality I feel is lacking in the vanilla device.
Any comments/suggestions?