Meatloaf once sang 'Two out of Three Ain't Bad,' which sums up Steve's review of QuickOffice Premier on UIQ quite nicely. While the Word Processor and Spreadsheet apps are enough to get it a 'Recommended' award, the Powerpoint Viewer needs a bit more work.
Quickoffice Premier (UIQ) Reviewed
Ewan wrote:While the Word Processor and Spreadsheet apps are enough to get it a 'Recommended' award, the Powerpoint Viewer needs a bit more work.
Further to Steve's review, they do not support the much faster and more memory efficient Symbian native Word and Sheet format. These formats are supported on all Series 80 and Series 90 machines.
No they're probably using a version of the Palm OS engine they wrote/ Have Symbian made the native word/sheet formats available publicly for developers?
Ewan wrote:Have Symbian made the native word/sheet formats available publicly for developers?
Not publicly I think. But I hope I'm wrong and wish someone could tell me otherwise!!!
In Richard Bloor's interview with Paul Moreton of ME (not sure if he flowed along to MDM with the aquisition) it was indicated that Symbian had made their Symbian Office libraries available for the development of QuickOffice: