PICSEL SMART OFFICE 1.8 (SIGNED)
smart office is a huge application but picsel has done a good job of binding everything together in a cohesive user interface. the hub of smart office is its file explorer which neatly displays your files and folders, along with your recent documents and cloud accounts on dropbox and google docs. file management options are revealed by long-pressing on a file; allowing you to delete, copy, or rename. smart office supports the common pinch and stretch to zoom gesture. however, it takes this a step further by zooming out to a multi-page view which dynamically reorganizes itself to make the best use of the screen area. transitions between different grid layouts are visually engaging and give things an extra touch of polish. while viewing a file, a main toolbar can be accessed by tapping at the top of the screen, which lets you undo actions, save, and close. while editing, a secondary toolbar appears when you tap at the bottom of the screen which gives you access to all of the editing tools.
file compatibility on smart office is comprehensive, being able to read and write word (doc and docx), excel (xls and xlsx), and power point (ppt and pptx) files. it can also view images and PDF files. for this review, we hit smart office with a plethora of test files; almost everything was correctly loaded and shown. however, the test files included some docx files (created in office 2010) with images that were not embedded in the file, but loaded from the web – they caused a “file not supported” error; it should be noted that the version of quick office in the N8’s firmware would open those same files (without the images). we did also find an old power point file that didn’t load correctly, but our more recent test files were displayed properly. excel files had the best compatibility –at least for simple formulate and charts.
the PDF viewer is really the best part of smart office. its rendering is the fastest i’ve seen on symbian even outclassing quick office’s PDF viewer. where the PDF viewer falls down is on documents with several hundred pages, as it tries to load the whole file into RAM at once, rather than loading the next few pages from where you’re currently reading. however, single page documents which are highly complex (e.g. a city-wide bus map) loaded surprisingly quickly.
the description of text editing above covered most of the word processor functionality. with version 1.8 of smart office, text editing is all that can be done. actually, the word processing features are very limited. you can create bulleted and numbered lists, and adjust text alignment. however, there’s no ability to insert a table, or adjust paragraph properties; nor is there a spell checker, word count, or print preview. fortunately, you can “save as” to PDF, and a pleasing effect is the same cover flow mode for pages as seen in the PDF viewer.
the spreadsheet sub-application is the most 'feature complete' part of smart office, and feels much more like a desktop application than the equivalent section of quick office. this extends as far as being able to resize, split and merge cells – just like desktop spreadsheets.It is also possible to add and remove extra sheets, just as in a desktop application. these can then be swiped through in the 3D preview that is also used in the PDF viewer and word processor.
the presentation editor of smart office is unfortunately less functional than its counterparts. when creating a new file there are four templates to choose from. however, there is no way to add a new slide, or change the background image.
get it now: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bsvejdlr0tsldu9/smrtofc.zip
smart office is a huge application but picsel has done a good job of binding everything together in a cohesive user interface. the hub of smart office is its file explorer which neatly displays your files and folders, along with your recent documents and cloud accounts on dropbox and google docs. file management options are revealed by long-pressing on a file; allowing you to delete, copy, or rename. smart office supports the common pinch and stretch to zoom gesture. however, it takes this a step further by zooming out to a multi-page view which dynamically reorganizes itself to make the best use of the screen area. transitions between different grid layouts are visually engaging and give things an extra touch of polish. while viewing a file, a main toolbar can be accessed by tapping at the top of the screen, which lets you undo actions, save, and close. while editing, a secondary toolbar appears when you tap at the bottom of the screen which gives you access to all of the editing tools.
file compatibility on smart office is comprehensive, being able to read and write word (doc and docx), excel (xls and xlsx), and power point (ppt and pptx) files. it can also view images and PDF files. for this review, we hit smart office with a plethora of test files; almost everything was correctly loaded and shown. however, the test files included some docx files (created in office 2010) with images that were not embedded in the file, but loaded from the web – they caused a “file not supported” error; it should be noted that the version of quick office in the N8’s firmware would open those same files (without the images). we did also find an old power point file that didn’t load correctly, but our more recent test files were displayed properly. excel files had the best compatibility –at least for simple formulate and charts.
the PDF viewer is really the best part of smart office. its rendering is the fastest i’ve seen on symbian even outclassing quick office’s PDF viewer. where the PDF viewer falls down is on documents with several hundred pages, as it tries to load the whole file into RAM at once, rather than loading the next few pages from where you’re currently reading. however, single page documents which are highly complex (e.g. a city-wide bus map) loaded surprisingly quickly.
the description of text editing above covered most of the word processor functionality. with version 1.8 of smart office, text editing is all that can be done. actually, the word processing features are very limited. you can create bulleted and numbered lists, and adjust text alignment. however, there’s no ability to insert a table, or adjust paragraph properties; nor is there a spell checker, word count, or print preview. fortunately, you can “save as” to PDF, and a pleasing effect is the same cover flow mode for pages as seen in the PDF viewer.
the spreadsheet sub-application is the most 'feature complete' part of smart office, and feels much more like a desktop application than the equivalent section of quick office. this extends as far as being able to resize, split and merge cells – just like desktop spreadsheets.It is also possible to add and remove extra sheets, just as in a desktop application. these can then be swiped through in the 3D preview that is also used in the PDF viewer and word processor.
the presentation editor of smart office is unfortunately less functional than its counterparts. when creating a new file there are four templates to choose from. however, there is no way to add a new slide, or change the background image.
get it now: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bsvejdlr0tsldu9/smrtofc.zip
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