QuickOffice

The developers of the most popular mobile office suite QuickOffice have created a new product QuickOffice Connect, which allows not only edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents on your smartphone and tablet, but also sync these files between user devices (or between co-workers). However, QuickOffice is not going to compete with Dropbox, Box, SkyDrive, SugarSync and Google Drive. On the contrary, it allows you to synchronize files and folders with any of these cloud services but doesn't provide its own online storage. QuickOffice Connect works not only on mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, Android) but also on the desktop (PC, Mac). But it also is not going to compete with Microsoft Office, editing documents on the desktop is supposed be done in Microsoft's programs.

The rapid growth of mobile market and the diversity of mobile platforms - gives small companies the chance to compete with software giants. For example, in communications market small fring competes with Skype. And in the mobile office space Quickoffice competes with Microsoft Office. In general, it's hardly can be called the competition. Mobile MS Office works only on Microsoft's own platforms: the old Windows Mobile and the new Windows Phone. At the same time Quickoffice is preinstalled on all Symbian smartphones (Nokia), webOS smartphones and tablets (HP), installed on 80% Android smartphones and available for Blackberry, iPhone and iPad. Recently, the company has also created Quickoffice for Android Honeycomb (Google's operating system for tablets) and Motorola and Samsung have already announced that they will pre-install this office suite on their tablets.

When the iPad appeared earlier this early, one of the major problems the business users faced was that the tablet didn't allowed to work normally with office documents - Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The Apple's own mobile office suite iWork only allows to view MS Office documents on the iPad and doesn't allow to edit them. But now this drawback is fixed. The most popular mobile office suites QuickOffice and Documents To Go almost simultaneously launched the versions for the iPad. Both solutions are paid: Documents To Go costs $10 for the standard version and $15 - for the premium (it includes additional cloud file storage) and Quickoffice - $10. Both packages allow basic editing of Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents on the tablet. QuickOffice doesn't provide the cloud-sync option, but it works more stable.

Finally, the most popular mobile office suite QuickOffice launches for the Android platform. So far it worked on iPhone, Symbian, Palm and Blackberry. The trial-version of the Quickoffice for Android enables to view documents in the formats of MS Office 97-2008 (DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX) and the paid version (which costs $14) allows to edit them with basic tools. There's even a decent PDF viewer in it. QuickOffice for Android can connect to online file storage services: Dropbox, Google Docs, Box.net and MobileMe, so you can save files to the cloud. The owners of Android 2.0 and 2.1 devices can also use the multi-touch document zoom.

Mobile office suite QuickOffice, which was previously available only on Symbian and Blackberry smartphones now has reached the iPhone. QuickOffice for iPhone allows to edit Word and Excel documents and even implements the copy-paste functionality, which is still not available on the iPhone by default. In addition to MS Office files, QuickOffice lets you view PDF and iWork documents. It also features the access to the cloud service, MobileMe. The price of QuickOffice for iPhone - is quite high - $19.99. The developers also promise to release QuickOffice version for Android soon.