Quickoffice has unveiled the latest version of its pocket office suite for the S60 platform.
The suite of MS Office compatible apps allows office documents to be viewed and edited on S60 mobiles. The new version 6.0 is intended to provide support for file storage on ‘cloud’ computing networks such as iDisk, Amazon’s S3 and Apple’s MobileMe as well as integration into corporate networking environments including Microsoft Sharepoint server.
The app suite will also add full support for Office 2007 docx xlsx and ppt files. The suite will be released in the first quarter of 2009.
If you use a Nokia phone, you probably have a bundled copy of Quickoffice lurking in its memory, maybe seeing some occasional use when someone sends you a word doc as an attachment to an email.
The free version that ships with your phone is ok for viewing the occasional file, but you can’t edit or create documents and it only supports older MS Office file formats. Although few people would go out of their way to edit Powerpoint presentations using a numeric keypad and a tiny joystick, if you use your phone for work it is a handy thing to be able to do in a pinch.
Quickoffice Premier version 5.0 can handle the latest XML-format MS Office 2007 files and will let you create and edit Excel, Word and Powerpoint docs right on your handset.
At $69.95 its not cheap, and there doesn’t seem to be a demo version available, but if you need to view or edit MS Office docs and only carry a S60 mobile phone then it is worth a look.
Well, it had only been out for a year - Microsoft has finally released a free update for Office Mobile that adds support for its Office 2007 file formats.
The new Open XML (eXtensible Markup Language) formats for Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents are said to reduce file size, which is a bonus if you are downloading them over GPRS, and they add security features.
Available for download here, the update also adds support for working files stored within ZIP archives, some viewing enhancements for Excel spreadsheets and support for the SmartArt diagram format.
It’s a rather chunky 12MB download, and you will need at least 6MB free on your Windows Mobile (version 5 or 6) device to install and run the upgrade.
Samsung’s U600 has had a rather fetching paint job for its latest incarnation as the U600 Limited Black Gold Edition.
Official information is scarce but from what is available, the new U600 will be the same as the original. Hence it will have a 3.2-megapixel camera, MP3 player and all the usual gubbins. Other features include a document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF) and Yahoo! Search built-in.
And how much will it cost? If reports are to be believed it’ll cost around €320 Sim-free, so expect it to be free on a contract. If it’s released with a UK operator anyway.
[Via GSM Arena]
