Quickoffice catches Android fever, suits let out sigh of relief
Doesn't really matter how high the cool factor is on Android handsets once they start trickling into the retail channel -- if they lack productivity and enterprise software, business penetration is going to hover near zero. That's a problem, seeing how companies have a tendency to buy entire fleets of phones at once, contributing serious revenue to a carrier's and a manufacturer's bottom line come earnings report time. Don't worry though, Android, Quickoffice has you covered. The suite -- familiar to a great many Palm, S60, and UIQ users -- brings serious Office document viewing and editing power to the world's non-Windows Mobile smartphones, and judging from a recent show-and-tell with PC Magazine, it looks like they have every intention of sharing that same power with Android users. All the typical Quickoffice stuff is there, appearing surprisingly close to being ready for prime time despite the fact that Android hardware isn't expected for a handful of months yet. One bonus feature here (and a biggie at that) is integration with Soonr's technology for accessing documents remotely -- pretty nifty, since most of us don't carry our full library of documents when we're on the road. No word on a release date here, but we imagine we'll be seeing it right about the same time that the first devices hit the market.
[Via Talk Android]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ThePremierAssassin @ Apr 29th 2008 11:38AM
To this day I still have no idea what Android is, what the fuck its supposed to do, and why every tech geek has a hard on for it.
And yes I've googled it. The website doesn't really explain a lot nor does it have any demostrations or examples of what makes it better than w/e its competition is...
BluesK1d @ Apr 30th 2008 2:16PM
@ Grumpy McGumperson
The Android site has plenty of info regarding what it is and what it does, including video demonstrations. There are plenty more to be seen on YouTube as well so I am not sure what site you were looking at.
niftydl @ Apr 29th 2008 12:58PM
Android is another mobile software OS/platform, similar to Windows Mobile, PalmOS, and RIM's BlackBerry OS. The difference between Android and other systems is open specifications and compatibility for software regardless of what device you are using.
D @ Apr 29th 2008 4:56PM
More info, if you could?
For example, it seems to me that with any of those OSes, for example PalmOS, I already have compatibility for software regardless of which (Palm) device I'm using.
Android isn't tied to a specific /vendor/ (unless you count Google, who isn't evil...yet), but each manufacturer must still test and sell their device with Android -- or each user must hack it -- right?
I guess I feel like without widespread adoption and a lot of interoperability with other systems (Outlook, etc), it's not worth much. And I have major concerns about the widespread adoption of this platform in anything less than 5 years. Much, much longer, if it goes anything like Linux on PCs... :-)