QuickOffice to be Free for TouchPad, Paid for Smartphones

Posted By: Kris Keilhack Tuesday, August 9, 2011 11:02:01 AM

Quickoffice webos touchpad One of the biggest criticisms of WebOS since its debut on the original Pre over two years ago has been the appalling lack of a native Microsoft Office-compatible app for viewing, editing, and creating documents. Viewer-only versions of Documents To Go are available for WebOS 1.x smartphones while the Veer and TouchPad currently ship with a read-only version of QuickOffice. However, a version of QuickOffice with editing capabilities remains unreleased a year after it was first referenced. DataViz dropped support for WebOS entirely last year shortly before being acquired by RIM.

While it's not exactly a hard release date, QuickOffice has made an update to their website clarifying the situation about the differences between the full versions of QuickOffice on WebOS 2.x smartphone vs WebOS 3.x tablets. TouchPad users will receive the full version of QuickOffice for free via a forthcoming App Catalog release. Smartphone users, presumably including all current and legacy WebOS 1.x and 2.x devices, will have to pay for the full version of QuickOffice. QuickOffice states that smartphone users signing up now to their mailing list will receive a "special exclusive discount when the paid upgrade is available".

Thanks, PreCentral.

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Ready to Show You the Money

LiveFaith @ 8/9/2011 11:50:19 AM # Q
QO, bring this thing and us legacy users will show you the money. All dozen of us ... :-)
Pat Horne
RE: Ready to Show You the Money
zuhmir @ 8/10/2011 8:55:15 AM # Q
About a month ago webOS Internals managed to install any ubuntu app on any webOS device, including open office
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/69/libreofficeonatouchpad.png/#
Why on earth would anyone buy QuickOffice for touchpad when they can use open office?
I can understand buying QuickOffice for smartphones because open office is not at all optimized for small screens.
RE: Ready to Show You the Money
Gekko @ 8/10/2011 10:21:31 AM # Q

"a fool and his money are soon parted."

RE: Ready to Show You the Money
richf @ 8/10/2011 7:33:38 PM # Q
Not needed. Google docs is the way to go.
Have a nice day!
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RE: Ready to Show You the Money
LiveFaith @ 8/11/2011 3:51:56 PM # Q
Thanks LB
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