If you are a user of Nokia phone, chances are that you are using QuickOffice to read your documents & PDFs which came bundled with your phone and you never bothered to look at anything better.
However, it looks like that QuickOffice is no longer paying attention to Symbian OS. There current version is very badly designed for touch screen devices. I wanted an application to read my files so I started looking at alternatives.
While looking for alternatives, I came across Picsel Smart Office. They have done a complete revamp of there application since the last time I used it in my Nokia N79. It is now available for Symbian^3, Android, iPhone, Bada and Windows Mobile.
By far, it is the only Office suite I have found worth using in my Nokia N8. It reads PDFs as well as Office 2007 compatible files which is what most of us use anyway.
It also supports basic editing although that is tough on a touch screen phone due to the fact that there is no separate keyboard on N8. On Nokia E7, editing will be easy due to more precise keyboard & arrows keys for pointing exactly where you need.
There were some problems I faced though.
- Multi touch doesn’t work in my N8 yet.
- Few PowerPoint presentations with animation don’t render properly.
- I cannot set it as the default viewer for Office documents as QuickOffice is default. I need to open the app first and then open the document from it.
- The top toolbar should vanish when I am reading a document or PDF giving some more vertical space but still leave an icon overlaying on the top left side to bring it back to the screen.
Picsel Smart Office is better then any other office suite available for Symbian OS right now. I strongly recommend Picsel for reading purpose only unless you have a Nokia E7, Or Nokia N97 like phone with Keyboard.
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