On Maemo (Diablo) the old version in official repositories is almost unusable.

I tested the new one in Devel repos', not for a long time but it seems very good. It works without any slow down and launch in some seconds.
In comparison, with Qole's Easy Debian, i use OpenOffice, but it takes about 1,5 mn to launch with an empty text document ... but OOo is a lot more powerfull too !

After launching, OOo, runs well with some slight slowdowns, Abiword runs perfectly.