Guys
Are there any office apps available for the P800 ? All I can find are the apps such as calender, jotter and mail that are included with the P800 - nothing like a Spreadsheet pgm or Word processing. That's the main thing holding me off getting the P800 at the moment.
Cheers
Fred
Nothing comparable to office pack for palm...but it will come.
Meantime theres Jtext 100 for text writting and there is a document and excell READER.. I have not tried excell sheets yet, but I beamed a couple of Word Documents and I se them well enough.
That's a shame. I'm real fan of the EPOC / Symbian OS and the Office apps on the Revo are great, so I assumed that the P800 would have these or similar apps included, it being a PDA and all. Guess I'll wait and see what comes out in a few months time and hope they're not too costly, then I can get rid of my T39 and Revo :P
I'd just about sold my wife on the idea of getting one (each - she uses a Revo too) until I discovered the lack of Office type apps.
Oh well, I've waited this long, guess I can wait a bit longer.
It's sick when they release a lil features by each version, and unable to install certain applications even when they are running under the same OS.
[quote="Me"]Nothing comparable to office pack for palm...but it will come.
Meantime theres Jtext 100 for text writting and there is a document and excell READER.. I have not tried excell sheets yet, but I beamed a couple of Word Documents and I se them well enough.[/quote]
You sure it will come?
Why weren't it included from the begining?
It'd be quite some argument to get the phone, the fact that it had the editing capability.
As I've said earlier, the software allready exist for the EPOC platform (which is not fundamentally different), hence porting it to UIQ should be a piece of cake.
I'd rather put my money on the fact that because of politics SE can't or won't put this capability in the phone.
Could be that it's a feture slated for 3G.
Could be that some contract from the previous joint venture between MS and Ericsson prevents SE from adding this functionality.
[quote="tybollt"]
You sure it will come?
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I'd rather put my money on the fact that because of politics SE can't or won't put this capability in the phone.
Could be that it's a feture slated for 3G.
Could be that some contract from the previous joint venture between MS and Ericsson prevents SE from adding this functionality.[/quote]
It doesn't matter if SE haven't included it for political reasons (though I'm sure that's at least part of it). It is an open platform so anyone can develop applications for it. It's only a matter of time before the P800 has anough of a market that someone will create Office style apps for it.
I hope someone will prove me wrong but I doubt any one developer has the time on their hands to make such applications.
tybollt, I agree.
I don't think an individual developer will have the time to develop word / excel type programs such as those used on the Psion range, and I would have thought it unlikely that Psion themselves will allow an individual access to the sourec to be able to port them to the P800. However, a commercial company will have the time and resources, the drawback for us consumers is that we'll have to pay big �� for it 😞