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This is the essential office application if you use an S60 device, which is why I think this review is so important.
Some snippets:
For example, Quickoffice 3 is in most Nseries firmware, in ‘read only’ form, i.e. you can view Word, Excel and Powerpoint attachments but you can’t edit them. (An editing version is also present in rival UIQ 3 smartphones, by the way)
Long time AAS readers will recall my concern over round-tripping of documents, from desktop to smartphone and back to desktop without losing vital formatting and content. It seems that previous comments have now been taken to heart, with near perfect preservation of common file elements when used with a recent version of Microsoft Office. Images, formatting, styling, insertions, footnotes and charts were all retained, making Quickoffice 4 now suitable for use in a business email environment.
Obvious omissions include a spell checker and a word count facility, but these aside, Quickoffice 4 is now a perfectly capable word processor that can genuinely attempt tweaks to Office master documents without fear of damage.
Nothing’s perfect though, and the lack of compatibility with .DOC files produced by OpenOffice, plus the lack of spell checker and word count, the absence of any charting in the spreadsheet and the lack of any related presentation projection system are all black marks that prevent Quickoffice 4.0 from gaining a coveted AAS MegaApp award.
It’s is a pretty upbeat review despite the applications faults, read the whole thing over at All About Symbian.
About The Author
Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
