Documents View app
The Pre comes with a PDF viewer (PDF View) and a Documents Viewer (Doc View) which are very usable but start complaining when larger documents are opened. You can use these apps to view PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, spreadsheets, plain text, and rich text formats. The app intelligently resizes documents for viewing, and double-tapping zooms as expected. Pagination and scrolling is well done and both apps come with the ability to search through them from within the applications.
Problems with memory-management depend on how many other cards you have open on your Pre at the same time. Even with only two other cards open, the apps start freezing up with a 7Mb powerpoint file and also with a 4Mb PDF. No doubt these issues will be ironed out in future iterations. The PDF view application can definitely double up as an E-book reader app until a 3rd party application comes in with a dedicated one. We hear there are several in the works.
Tags: documents, excel, pdf, powerpoint, word
Correct me if I’m wrong but I thought that the pre was supposed to have working excel and word programs not view only! That is one of the main reasons I got the phone. And how much longer do we have to wait to get more apps?! I would love to have some of the cooking/work out apps that the iphone has. I know that it is going to take some time but the Pre can’t really say it is better or compairable to the iphone until it has more or the same apps. I am not a iphone user but am starting to get jealous of the new phone compaired to my pre.
I have been monitoring the “Pre” related news, and Palm released an application development kit. This means that in the next couple of months we should see tons of stuff coming up, since until a couple of weeks ago, few developers had access to this application.