Helping to feed people’s unstoppable appetite for  Weather and let’s not forget the productivity apps, there’s the excellent Documents To Go for Maemo and now KOffice. There’s now an Alpha version available through the Extras-developer repositories.

As the a result, the usual word of caution applies here. This version supports text files, spreadsheets and presentations in OpenDocument format (ODF) and Microsoft Office formats. The viewer requires the latest update (PR1.1) to the N900 software.

If you don’t have the Extras-developer repositories, you should create a new catalog in the App. manager:

After you’ve updated,  a new 9 megabyte app should appear with the “’freoffice” name. Even considering it’s as an Extras-developer app, it seems to be a less refined solution, when compared to Documents To Go for Maemo. On the other hand, there’s no denying that it cost the incredible price of $0.

The question now is, which of these solutions will get document editing first. I’m betting on Documents To Go for Maemo, especially with the Mobile World Congress, just around the corner?

This seems a like a battle between Microsoft Office and Openoffice, but on the mobile front. Which do you prefer? Documents To Go for Maemo or KOffice?