iPhone can read Word, Excel, PDF documents

I've pimped out the iPhone and installed Preview; but I still can't open the .pdf files I've got - ie just bought a book about Flash Media Server 2 as a pdf - thing just hangs there.

Was hoping I could totally forget about my Treo, but it was wonderful as a digital manual holder...

Any time I try to open up something in safari, it says the file is too large.

And I'd _LOVE_ a chm reader too...

Hell how does one compile stuff for this processor?

The problem with Web Apps is when you are like me, driving in the country or on a farm, and you don't have WiFi or an the Edge network, nothing works. What we need is a iPhone based app to write and read xls, .doc and save it on the iphone itself and not have to email it back. Once there is these capbility without a "network" to do anything then I'll buy a second iPhone for myself.

23: I've been hoping that too; and that is the logical progression.

new: iphone supports video out, keynote and powerpoint...for a presentation just your iphone will do!!!

I have only done minor edits here and there (with a pen ofc) and even though it's a pain to write huge docs, it can be a gr8 feature if you're in a long queue, or travelling without space/battery to operate a laptop on. Then again, iPhone is definitely not a business oriented device so it hardly counts as a miss even if it didn't do these.

ok. picture this:

quick view and that "back on my mac" feature from the iPhone.
syncing your iPhone to your home computer using dot mac to get any excel, jpeg, mpeg, word or PDF document.

please tell me this is OBVIOUSLY where they are going and just the service dot mac needs.... it essentially makes the iPhone the UMPC for Mac users.

I've got a treo, my second, and I must say that on both Windows Mobile and Palm devices I've seen/played with, you install too many cool apps, you're going to be crashing - maybe not daily, but now and then, and in truly painful ways. I bet I've factory reset my phone about 50 times in two years (once every other week - not bad!). Still, if I could get that down to zero, have decent/semi-secure webapp or widgetized replacements, and a beautiful phone? Yeah, I could live with that.

it's still a new announced feature of the iPhone, maybe apple sees it first to fix the preview of documents and afterwards focus on editing the content?

:)

always want more :p

Won't we be able to use web based apps - like Google Docs - on the iPhone? That will open word files, allow editing, etc... am I missing something here?

Didn't his Steveness say in the previous keynote (the one last year) that you could use your own tunes as ring tones? Or am I dreaming it? Might as well, since iPhones won't make itpu here to Canada until who knows when...