Symbian Smartphone to get ms office editor

[Guest squall]

Do you think ms smartphone will suffer as a result of this !?

Quickoffice Premier Demonstrated With New Panasonic Symbian Smartphone

Monday April 5, 8:03 am ET  

Panasonic Smartphone Opens, Views, and Edits Microsoft® Word, Excel, and PowerPoint® Files  

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., April 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mobility Electronics, Inc. (Nasdaq: MOBE - News), a leading provider of innovative portable computing solutions for the mobile electronics device user, has entered into an agreement to supply its iGo Quickoffice Premier 1.0 for the Panasonic X700 Smartphone. The software was recently demonstrated at the Panasonic booth at the 3GSM World Congress 2004, in Cannes, France.

Based on the award winning iGo Quickoffice Premier for Palm OS®, Quickoffice Premier for Series 60 offers a fully functional office suite. For the first time, Symbian Series 60 Smartphone users will be able to open, view and edit native Microsoft® Word, Excel and PowerPoint® email attachments, Multi-media Message attachments, and native MS Office files saved on removable memory expansion cards.

"This suite has many firsts," noted Paul Moreton, Mobility Electronics' director, handheld software. "Quickoffice Premier is the first office suite for Series 60 Smartphones. It includes the first handheld application to save edited presentations as native PowerPoint® files."

Quickoffice Premier supports any Series 60 Smartphone including the new Panasonic X700. Quickoffice Premier includes the full Quickword® word processor with fonts, formatting, justification, bold, italics, underline, and other standard editing tools. The Quickoffice Premier spreadsheet, Quicksheet®, includes multiple sheet workbooks, more than 70 functions, formatting, justification, bold, italics, underline, and advanced features such as column resizing.

About Mobility Electronics, Inc.

Mobility Electronics, Inc., based in Scottsdale, Arizona, is a rapidly growing developer and marketer of a broad range of innovative solutions for the mobile electronic device market (e.g., mobile phones, portable computers, smartphones, PDAs, digital cameras, etc.). The company's innovative solutions include power adapters, hardware and software products for handheld devices, expansion and docking products for servers, desktop and portable computers and other accessories for the mobile electronic device market.

Mobility Electronics' brands include both the iGo and MAGMA product lines. iGo's flagship products include the industry's first combination AC/DC power adapter, Juice, as well as first-to-market handheld software and accessory products such as Quickoffice and Pitch. The company's MAGMA line of patented expansion products enable the industry's only PCI expansion solutions for servers, desktop and mobile computing users.

Mobility Electronics' products are available to mobile electronic device users directly via the company's online store (www.igo.com) as well as through the company's global distribution base of leading resellers, retailers and OEM partners. For additional information on Mobility Electronics' products and services, call 480-596-0061, or visit its Web site at www.mobilityelectronics.com. For additional information on MAGMA products and services, call 858-530-2511, or visit their Web site at www.magma.com.

iGo, Quickword, and Quicksheet are registered trademarks, and Juice, Quickoffice, Quickpoint, Quickoffice Premier, Pitch and MAGMA are trademarks of Mobility Electronic, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements relating to our product offerings. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. In particular, factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include the loss of, and failure to replace, any significant customers; the timing and success of new product introductions; the development and introduction of new products by us and our competitors; the performance of suppliers and subcontractors; industry and general economic or business conditions; and other factors detailed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date made and are not guarantees of future performance. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements.  

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[Guest chucky.egg]

About time too!

This has been available for Palms and Symbian UIQ for ages now

Now all "they" need to do is make a reliable handset and UIQ has some competition!

[Guest Simon Desser]

As far as I'm aware, QuickOffice has been available for Series 60 Symbian phones since last summer :?

http://www.mobl.com/software/series60/

EDIT:- Actually, I think it was just able to view Word & Powerpoint until now, so presumeably the "new" part is Excel, and being able to create and edit files :?:

[Guest efjay]

Maybe we should contact this company to see if they will make this available for ms smartphone, since series 60 and smartphone will both use keypad input it should be possible