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Is the iWork suite en route to iPhone?

Looking for more good news on the iPhone 4 front? Our eagle-eyed tipster iJcaP points out something that MacRumors also noted: on the iPhone 4 features page for Mail, a screenshot at the bottom lets a fairly large cat out of the bag. The picture shows an option to open a Keynote file... in Keynote. That, of course, implies a version of the iWork suite for the iPhone -- currently only available for the iPad.

Screenshot mixup, or true vision of the future? Sure would be another nice thing to have for the iOS 4 launch and iPhone 4 availability, dontcha think?

Update: The screenshot has been tweaked -- see the 2nd half of this post. It now says "Open in 'iBooks'" which is a trifle odd considering the email still refers to a presentation. Seems like this is not Apple's day for keeping things under wraps.

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macserv

iBooks does a nice job of viewing PDFs, as demonstrated. If we assume that the presentation is now in PDF format, iBooks would be the handler of choice.

June 09 2010 at 12:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pegasus

Form factor may be a bit small on iPhone, but the iWork suite on iPad is awesome. It is great to have key documents with me all the time, without lugging around my MBP in addition to my piece of crap HP office laptop.

June 08 2010 at 8:48 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mrtotes

So does this now imply that iBooks opens Keynote/PPT in addition to PDF?

June 08 2010 at 7:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dave E

I have been clamoring for this for years. I need a simple, mobile spreadsheet to keep track of attendance. I use documents to go (and it's great), but there is no app on the iPhone to edit numbers files natively. So when editing on the mac, save copy as excel file, which Numbers hates. Not fun. I hope this comes soon.

June 07 2010 at 9:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
gman5541

Nah! The form factor is too small to do a version of iWork on the iPhone. Moreover, other companies hadn't been successful at porting an Office-style productivity suite (Pocket Office anyone?)

June 07 2010 at 8:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dionte

It says open in ibooks on their site, photoshop?

June 07 2010 at 7:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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anasha.cummings

Looks like they changed it rather hastily... the email subject still says "Atlanta Presentation" (for now).

June 07 2010 at 7:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
leehord

It's definitely plausible to run the iPad version of iWork on this thing. One of the features of iOS4 is the ability to redraw text and the controls, none of that horrid pixel doubling technique currently employed on the iPad.

June 07 2010 at 6:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
MikeWard1701

I really hope so, had a chance to try out Numbers and Pages on the iPad earlier today and they are brilliantly executed.

Currently I find Excel on my Windows Mobile device indispensible for throwing together quick tables/sheets, and I like to format my text as I'm writing, so Word is equally important.

I know of apps like Quick Office and Documents to Go, but from what I’ve read they’re sluggish. I’d love to have an Apple engineered solution.

June 07 2010 at 6:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
esposimi

It isn't there anymore. The screenshot is different now, says "Open in iBooks"

June 07 2010 at 5:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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leehord

Screenshot has just been changed on U.K. site.

June 07 2010 at 6:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
scamsnl

As well as iChat…

June 07 2010 at 5:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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