Editing spreadsheets on iPhone brings choices
by Yves Neidlinger on 13/02/09 at 9:24 pm
Yves Neidlinger is a technologist and a social media and marketing consultant. He is the National Channel Manager for Navara and the founder and Editor in Chief of iPhoneCTO.
This marks the fourth story we are reporting on concerning the viewing and editing of Excel spreadsheets on iPhone. We see far more requests for Excel capabilities on iPhone than for Word or PowerPoint. Why is that?
Developers, on the other hand, have clearly picked up on this. There are no less than seven applications and one web app competing for a place on your iPhone. iPhoneCTO recently reported on three products, Mariner Calc for iPhone, MobileFiles Pro by QuickOffice and the soon to be announced Documents To Go, by DataViz.
Today, Macworld reports on four other products that provide various levels of viewing and editing of Excel files. [Spoiler Alert, the clear winner seems to be MobileFiles Pro which isn’t included in the review].
Not to be left out of the party, Google just announced that Google Docs now offers viewing and editing of spreadsheets on iPhone. All you need to do is point Mobile Safari at: http://docs.google.com.
There are now a lot of choices available to iPhone users. So, what do you think? Which of these products did you try and which have you decided to use? iPhoneCTO will report back on what you told us.
Stephen Nolen
Feb 13th, 2009
I have been using MobileFiles Pro since no editing was supported by Google at the time. It handles the documents I need quite well and with it’s WiFi file transfer it is easy to move files back and forth.
The other benefits of MobileFiles Pro is the ease of viewing Power point files for quick references as well.
With editing of Google Doc spreadsheets it will be a handy feature of other documents but from first impressions it is a little clumsy at this time.
My 2 cents…
-Stephen