The new Quickoffice Premier 5.0 for your mobile office suite needs
December 21, 2007 by Jerome Locson
Filed under Computers
Quickoffice, the global leader in mobile office software, recently released its new office suite version – Quickoffice Premier 5.0 for S60 editions. This enables you to experience Microsoft® Office 2007 on your mobile phones specifically Smartphones.
This software comprises three great applications: Word Processing, Excel Spreadsheet, and Powerpoint Presentation capabilities.
“Symbian smartphone owners urgently need user-friendly software to support Office 2007 files, as access to these files increasingly becomes a must-have for mobile professionals,” said Paul Moreton, VP of product management. “As the first to provide a solution for the world’s most widely used mobile platform, Quickoffice continues its commitment to meeting the demands of our customers and providing solutions that fit their on-the-go lifestyle.” [ from press release ]
KEY FEATURES
- Complete Editing of Word®, Excel® and PowerPoint® files
- Advanced Editing of text, lists, tables, style, and formatting
- View documents in multiple views
- Performance optimizations for handling documents
- ZoomView™ lets you pick the display size that’s best for you
- Support For complex formulas
- Complete graphical editing
- Advanced email integration with Mail for Exchange 2.0
- Free spell check dictionaries available in multiple languages
- Add images to Word and PowerPoint documents
QUICKOFFICE PREMIER 5.0 COMPATIBILITY
- Supports the following file formats; DOCX, DOC, XLSX, XLSM, XLS, PPT, PPS & TXT
- Microsoft Office version support; 97, 2000, XP, 2003, & 2007
- Compatible with all S60 3rd Edition Devices
The complete suite costs around $69.95. Other mobile versions compatibility are also available, please check their website.
I tried to use quickoffice 5 on one phone just to see how the best industrial app works. That phone was nokia n95 a symbian s60 phone. I was very disappointed to say the least. Firstly there was no appropriate help or manual or user guide especially on the shortcut keys. Secondly editing was a problem since the default for the keys are numbers and when I pressed and held # button I was able to enter the letters, but this was disabled as soon as I moved to the next cell and I was required to press and hold the # button to enter words as I moved from cell to cell. Thirdly I discovered that there was no way of inserting charts such as bar or pie charts which is a very important factor to me as it would enable me to do a quick analysis of the data on the phone. There seems to be no provision for this since when I selected “insert” on the options all I saw were row column and worksheet. As a matter of fact this is what put me off most. Fourth point is the fact that there is a lot that is yet to be done about power point editing which seemed a bit clumsy for me. There was no auto way to view the slides. In zoom mode the viewing of the slides was not smooth. However I discovered that quickoffice was fast at whatever zoom level and that it worked very well with rotateme because it was showing a real full screen even in landscape mode. I would like to take this opportunity also to request Quickoffice.com to come up with a forum where all users can express their views in terms of suggestions and sharing. A trial version would also be welcome.