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What? SE Extends partnership with QuickOffice? Why not Dataviz's Docs To Go?

Wednesday, 5. December 2007, 17:29:47

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According to this press release, a multi-year agreement between Sony Ericsson and QuickOffice has been signed to provide all future Sony Ericsson smartphones with QuickOffice, which they said is the leading provider of mobile office software and solutions. Pfffttt ...

Well, I beg to differ... Being a heavy MS Word and Excel user, I found that the bundled QuickOffice in SE UIQ 3 smartphones are not up to industry standard. Opening huge files is a problem, documents round-tripping is bad. Formatting and images are not displayed. And many more bugs and "features" that should not come from a company that has been around for ages, since the Palm OS days. If QuickOffice is serious in bringing it's solution forward, these problems should have been addressed via firmware upgrades but I have not seen it. It stays the same. QuickOffice on my P990 is one of those applications that I NEVER opened, NEVER used, and NEVER touched because of my BAD experience with it.

For me, the best solution for my DOC and XLS on my SE UIQ 3 smartphones is still, Dataviz's Docs To Go. No fuss, no worries. Documents stay the same no matter how many times been edited. It's not perfect, it has many niggles but not as bad as QuickOffice. At least, if my DOC files have embedded photos or diagrams in it, Word To Go can show them to me.

Yeah, many stuff have been added like the QuickManager and Office 2007 compatibility but do we UIQ 3 users really need them? Tell me, do you prefer QuickOffice over Docs To Go or the other way round?

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Comments

aqualung15 6. December 2007, 03:13

Quickoffice is abysmal.

Docs to Go is far superior.

What is SE thinking ?

asrialbaker 6. December 2007, 04:05

aqualung,

Seems like I'm not alone here! :D

If those in the positions really want to deliver the best products for us, I bet we dont have to suffer incompetency like this. I mean, Since the P910 days, SE suppiled QuickOffice in the ROM and the UIQ 3 version of QuickOffice is just the carbon-copy of the UIQ 2 version. Pfftt... I'm very emotional while writing this because I know we should received something better...

Another thing, for mobile office solution, if QuickOffice claims it's the most sophisticated and leading solution, how about SoftMaker's Office? Do these guys really know what they are talking about? It's all bullshit!

SoftMaker's Office IS THE BEST solution for mobile office. Period! But it's not available for US UIQ 3 users, not even for Symbian.

Furthermore, if they say QuickOffice on S60 3rd Edition is more powerful, what a crap! It's not even close to what SoftMaker Office can do. Heck, it's not even close to what the original S60 3rd Edition Office App that was bundled in the first batch of the Eseries (E61, E60 & E70) which has now been scrapped totally from S60.

Without Dataviz's Docs To Go, all these marketing gimmicks saying P990, M600 & P1 as business companion are totally crap and crap and crap...

*** Please excuse the ***STRONG*** language used...

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