Welcome back to the second part of the TamsS60 QuickOffice review. Part 1 of the review looked at the general UI of the program and can be found here. Anyways, Part 2 looks at the PowerPoint capabilities(which are truly amazing) – read on to get the full scoop:
For me, PowerPoint is of utmost importance in my daily work – I use the program for all kinds of presentations and also derive my handouts from the slides. A mobile device that can edit PowerPoint thus is very helpful…but so far, most PowerPoint implementations for mobile devices have limited themselves to viewing. Can QuickPoint finally set a new standard?
Our first test consisted of chucking a 4MB PowerPoint file containing loads of images at the program – these were tackled well:
An overview allows you to grasp a presentation’s structure quickly:
Slides can be zoomed and panned with the menu. While this may sound great on paper, having to click pan every time you wish to scroll gets annoying fast – please give us a bunch of hotkeys for panning in the next version:
The second presentation containing Visio imagery(a classic troublemaker for mobile PowerPoint viewers) had problems…the flowcharts didn’t really look good:
QuickPoint really excels at editing presentations. The program allows you to add a variety of slide formats:
All elements can be moved and rotated freely:
Images, Tables and even AutoShapes(!!!) can be added to presentations on the go:
Last but not least, voice comments and even regular slide comments used for slide reviewing(!!!) can be added to presentations:
Overall, QuickPoint is true to QuickOffice’s standard company policy: a huge bunch of kickass features never seen before in a mobile device…but with a few usability and rendering quirks. If these could be addressed, this program would be the zen of mobile PowerPoint…as it is now, it is a top-class viewer with editing functions never seen before on a mobile device…
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