Filed under: iPhone, App Store
iPhone app roundup: Quickoffice, Otto Matic, Evernote 2
In the hustle and madness of yesterday's wayback machine activity, there were a couple of App Store introductions (and a notable upgrade) that might have slipped through...
First up: The long-awaited version of Quickoffice for iPhone that allows editing of Word and Excel files hit the store today and was demoed at CTIA. [Looks like the new Quicksheet is available now, but the full bundle and the Quickword standalone app aren't on sale yet as of Thursday morning.] While QO has had a 'mobile files' tool on the iPhone for a while now, this is the first build of the venerable portable office suite (which has been a favorite on Palm handhelds for years) that can do editing in both formats.
Quickoffice for iPhone can do font formatting and cu
t, copy and paste within Word documents -- presumably to be tied in with system-wide C/P in the OS 3.0 world-to-come. Both the Excel and Word tools will support landscape mode for extra editing area.
Files on the iPhone can be transferred off the device using WiFi to a local Mac, or straight to a MobileMe account. Quickoffice for iPhone is shipping now for an "introductory price" of $19.99, but if you just want the Excel spreadsheet editor (formerly MobileFiles Pro) you can have it for $12.99; the Word document editor is also $12.99. Quickoffice Files (previously known as MobileFiles 2.0) is $3.99 and offers similar file transfer capability to Readdle and other file managers. We're getting a review copy for a more thorough walkthrough later this week. It's worth n
oting that a Microsoft exec hinted at a version of Office itself for the iPhone that may be coming sometime in the not-too-distant future.
Second... who doesn't love a good robot game? For $4.99, you can now dive into Pangea's classic Otto Matic series with the company's new title for iPhone, Otto Matic: Alien Invasion. The B-movie style game pits Otto against the attacking Brain Aliens from Planet X; his job is to save as many humans as possible. Otto Matic: Alien Invasion features 10 levels and 25 different enemies, multiple weapons and activities, and quite a bit of fun.
Lastly, the TUAW top pick Evernote has been updated with a nifty landscape mode, thumbnail viewing, improved performance, favorites sorting, and an embedded web browser to reduce the tap a link --> Safari --> back to home screen --> scroll around --> relaunch Evernote loop-the-loop annoyances. Evernote 2.0 for iPhone remains a free download, and the basic Evernote service is also free; a year of pro-level service costs $45.


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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Did said 8:34AM on 4-02-2009
My new favorite app is HourOfPower, it's a great way to spend an hour. Or two :).
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Gary said 8:50AM on 4-02-2009
"First up: The long-awaited version of Quickoffice for iPhone that allows editing of Word and Excel files hit the store today"
That description doesn't match what is on the App store. No where on the app store description does it say you can edit Word files. So how is right?
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Michael Rose said 9:07AM on 4-02-2009
It looks like it hasn't hit the store yet -- amending the post. When it does, though...
http://www.quickoffice.com/quickword_iphone/
"Open/View/Save/Edit native Microsoft Word (.DOC) files
Editing features include:
• Create new documents
• Text selection using intuitive UI
• Cut/copy/paste
• Format text including Bold, Italics, Font Size, Font Style
• Unique text magnifier solution for accurately/easily positioning cursor
• Quickly create new list - bullet and numbered list
• Edit existing lists to add/remove entries"
floydstyle said 10:45AM on 4-02-2009
bah nothing on canada apstore for evernote 2 :/
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glad said 1:46PM on 4-02-2009
This is the great PDA/smartphone myth, who actually writes up docs on their Iphone/smartphone. Sorry I had all that when I used to have a Palm probably used it two times. I wish the company every success but I guess the number of active users will be pretty low in comparison to then ones who buy it and never actually use it.
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haracas said 9:50AM on 4-03-2009
Can anyone tell me whether i can access word attachments sent to my email and open them in quickoffice? I don't have a mobileme account and my school wifi is pretty restrictive (hellooo no use of keynote remote on that). So i just end up sending myself attachments and viewing them on my iphone.
Is it possible to open email attachments on the iPhone and edit them?
Thanks.
-Shoon
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