Quickoffice Suite Coming to webOS
After well over a year on the market, WebOS device users still do not have a version of Documents To Go with editing capabilities matching that of a Palm OS handheld from a decade ago. Even after suspending plans for such an app, only a vague message about an eventual version of DTG for WebOS is found on Dataviz's website.
Thankfully, Quickoffice has stepped up and make what is apparently a renewed commitment to WebOS courtesey of a recent post to their corporate blog. While not an outright announcement of a full Quickoffice for WebOS, they hint that users will be "pleasantly surprised if they continue to watch Quickoffice and our continued leadership in the mobile space". The full text of the message from CEO Alan Masarek can be found here.
QuickOffice is certainly no newcomer to the world of Palm, having been a solid competitor to Dataviz's Documents To Go for years until DTG became entrenched within the community due to being part of Palm's pre-loaded ROM bundle starting with the Tungsten C in 2003. The current release of QuickOffice is version 7.6 for Palm OS Garnet but this is incompatible with Motion Apps' Classic Garnet emulator for WebOS.
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RE: This is what's wrong with Palm
And a webOS handheld with a *real* camera could punch that crapcammed iPod Touch in its face. Something I'd like to do, Retina Display notwithstanding.
maybe
Dataviz
RE: Dataviz
Of course, I'm sure RIM was in their sights all along, which might have been why DataViz was dragging their feet on DTG in the first place...
RE: Dataviz
http://prepoint.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/documents-to-go-a-new-start/
I won't miss the damn thing! Good riddance! And don't bug me with another damned email this time!
RE: Dataviz
I started using the D2G package way back at v3.0, and it was a bug-fest in each and every version. After spending hours and hours trying to recover lost files etc, I eventually decided that the s/w was doing more damage than good to my productivity. Just gave up after few tries on the Treo's bungled and bundled app. A pretty good feature set, but those guys NEVER delivered a dependable solution.
Good riddance IMO. Looking forward to the change to QuickOffice (sp?).
Pat Horne
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This is what's wrong with Palm
But what killed Palm is Palm themselves. This is another example of where they went wrong. Palm should be the leader in media devices, in portable computers.
I so hope that HP will understand this and do something worth while.