Have you ever needed to check something on Wikipedia when no Internet connection was available? That could be very annoying... Thanks to Evopedia, that won't happen again as this application not only allows you to access the entire Wikipedia database on your Maemo device, it lets you do so without any connection to the Internet! You might wonder how this works: It's simple, you only need to download the main Evopedia software and a Wikipedia dump that is actually a kind of image containing all the articles of the online encyclopedia. There are several dumps, one for each language but they can be downloaded and accessed separately on your device, which lets you have a multilingual encyclopedia on your tablet!

Depending on the language, the dump files are pretty heavy as they weigh approximately 1GB (English version is 7GB), but the N900's huge memory should be able to welcome those files without any particular issue. What you should know is that those archives do not contain any image but only text. However, if you are connected to the Internet, the images will be automatically loaded and displayed on the page to really take the benefit of the application. Evopedia can display articles in both portrait and landscape modes, making reading easy and convenient.

Finally, a nice feature offered by Evopedia is a location based article suggestion. This works by coordinating your GPS position and then showing the nearest points of interest on a map, with links to their Wikipedia page. This awesome feature not only lets you know what's near you, but also allows you to learn more about those places.

You can download Evopedia and the Wikipedia dumps on Evopedia's official page.