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[Q] How functional is the included Office Suite?

I am a proud Xoom owner/user but when it comes to available office suites I feel very neglected. I started a thread over at the Xoom forum comparing some of the main features of three major (tablet optimized) office suites.
The official Asus Transformer website states that it will be shipped with the Polaris Suite. Has anyone tried it yet? I know it will be next to impossible to get the apk to run it on the Xoom so if anyone wants to add their experience on the Transformer? Here is the link to the PowerPoint presentation that I used to evaluate the compatibility.
Your help is really appreciated!

it doesn't work to bad.. everything displays apart from the line of symbol text and the the page numbers just show up as hash. The speed of the app is fine in fact is is almost instant.

logichoops said:
it doesn't work to bad.. everything displays apart from the line of symbol text and the the page numbers just show up as hash. The speed of the app is fine in fact is is almost instant.
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Would you mind taking a screenshot for me?

Screenshots:
http://db.tt/Ob5Memd
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Speed is very good

^ beat me to it!

logichoops said:
it doesn't work to bad.. everything displays apart from the line of symbol text and the the page numbers just show up as hash. The speed of the app is fine in fact is is almost instant.
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It has some functions that most other office apps don't have - insert table for example. Even better the table functionality is very feature rich meaning you can do things like merge cells.
I have had it crash on me, and when it did so, it lost all of the work I had done - it would be nice if they did a periodic save.
Speed in use is fine.
I'm comparing it to various paid for office apps I have had on the iPad, and it compares favourably so far.

A question is, is it better than Google docs?

I posted a comparison between (for now Word and PowerPoint) Office Suites in the Xoom forum. Bottom line is that none of the currently available apps should be considered perfect. Hopefully the competition coming up with all the Honeycomb tablets will spark a flood of well-developed apps.

I have found that the doc/xls files saved with polaris suite won't open with openoffice or libre office on my ubuntu 10.10 box, which is a shame, as I really like the functionality of it otherwise. In fact, I don't even think they opened with QuickOffice, which I installed next and, despite its more limited functionality, is reasonably good on my transformer!

lytnus said:
I have found that the doc/xls files saved with polaris suite won't open with openoffice or libre office on my ubuntu 10.10 box, which is a shame, as I really like the functionality of it otherwise. In fact, I don't even think they opened with QuickOffice, which I installed next and, despite its more limited functionality, is reasonably good on my transformer!
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I wonder if they open in Word. Such suite should have at least RTF. DOC/XLS are very bad choices especially since there are several very different versions of DOC/XLS formats out there.

Here's a youtube review of Polaris. This guy is awesome. Watch his reviews.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGSfL6XjcN8

popophobia said:
Here's a youtube review of Polaris. This guy is awesome. Watch his reviews.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGSfL6XjcN8
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I checked out his other videos and it made me want to test drive the Transformer so badly. Even my wife who leans towards iProducts was pretty impressed by its options!

Has anyone been able to get google docs integration work on on Polaris?
I can download a document from my google docs. However it will only save it locally and it won't upload it back to google docs. I also tried creating a new document and pushing it up to google docs and that also failed.

cd419 said:
Has anyone been able to get google docs integration work on on Polaris?
I can download a document from my google docs. However it will only save it locally and it won't upload it back to google docs. I also tried creating a new document and pushing it up to google docs and that also failed.
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If you have the Google Docs app installed, then within Polaris you can click-and-hold on a locally saved file, choose Send -> Docs and it will pass it to the Docs app for uploading.
But that just adds it to your Google docs, and doesn't overwrite and previous doc of the same name.

Damn I was really hoping for decent google docs support. I use google docs alot and not having read write acces is a pain. Does anyone know if Docs to go or quick office has read wirte google docs support and have tried on the xformer?
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium App

Can you not use Google Docs via the web browser on the TF?

You can use the mobile docs site but it is very basic. The desktop site crashes the browser when I try to use it.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium App

lytnus said:
I have found that the doc/xls files saved with polaris suite won't open with openoffice or libre office on my ubuntu 10.10 box, which is a shame, as I really like the functionality of it otherwise.
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The way LibreOffice doesn't open my Polaris file is clearly an LO bug: it crashes trying to do a division by 0.
I'm not allowed to post a URL on this forum but I can tell you that it is bug 40686 in the freedesktop.org bugzilla.

Your best bet is to get quickoffice and doc2go. Between polaris, quickoffice, and doc2go, you should be able to do everything you want to do on-the-go.

This topic has long since evolved in my comparison thread (see sig)
goodintentions said:
Your best bet is to get quickoffice and doc2go. Between polaris, quickoffice, and doc2go, you should be able to do everything you want to do on-the-go.
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Better App than Polaris?

I REALLY dislike this Polaris app. My first real-world experience with it was today and I was taking notes on it. First thing that bother me is that it randomly indented the first bullet in a list and wouldn't unindent it. Its features aren't that great and are pretty clunky to get around.
BUT, the worst part and a HUGE issue is: no auto-save!!!
I was typing my notes, closed the TF for a while, opened it back up and my notes were GONE. The page was blank!
Point is: Where can I get a REAL Office app for honeycomb? I'll pay if I have to.

not saving is just a bad habit, period, i wouldnt blame that on the app.

rhettnis said:
not saving is just a bad habit, period, i wouldnt blame that on the app.
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Great sentiment. Fact is, you can never predict what's going to happen, so it's very easy just to blame it on him. Maybe an answer to his question next time?
Documents To Go, QuickOffice, and ThinkFree, are a couple of recommended ones, though I've never used any.

In my experience, documents saved with polaris office don't open in anything else (except perhaps, MS Office apps, which I have not tried); quickoffice fails to open them, as does openoffice and libreoffice.
This is completely unacceptable to me, so despite the nice UI and so on, I use quickoffice when I need to edit docs (though its far from ideal, and doesn't integrate that well with the keyboard dock).

doronster195 said:
I REALLY dislike this Polaris app. My first real-world experience with it was today and I was taking notes on it. First thing that bother me is that it randomly indented the first bullet in a list and wouldn't unindent it. Its features aren't that great and are pretty clunky to get around.
BUT, the worst part and a HUGE issue is: no auto-save!!!
I was typing my notes, closed the TF for a while, opened it back up and my notes were GONE. The page was blank!
Point is: Where can I get a REAL Office app for honeycomb? I'll pay if I have to.
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If you dislike Polaris then you probably won't be very happy with any other current office suite. Check out my comparison (link is in the signature).
Sent from my TF101

Just had a look at your comparison (excellent, by the way!), and I think I'll be sticking with Polaris myself when my TF arrives.

Polaris is definately the most productive office suite yet on honeycomb.. and I have no problem opening its file in either google doc or ms office

*Daedalus said:
Just had a look at your comparison (excellent, by the way!), and I think I'll be sticking with Polaris myself when my TF arrives.
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I just updated the comparison and put it in the TF forum. New link is in my signature!

How about Google Documents? I use it and it autosaves

doronster195 said:
I was typing my notes, closed the TF for a while, opened it back up and my notes were GONE. The page was blank!
Point is: Where can I get a REAL Office app for honeycomb? I'll pay if I have to.
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This same thing happened to me. I typed some sentences in an existing document, the TF locked in power save and then when I unlocked, the document reverted back to the original document with the new sentences gone.
Just based on this, it isn't ready for prime time. This has nothing to do with the user.

just wait till Softmakers SoftOffice comes out for Android. their windows mobile version of Word was as featureful as Ms word.

haupman said:
This same thing happened to me. I typed some sentences in an existing document, the TF locked in power save and then when I unlocked, the document reverted back to the original document with the new sentences gone.
Just based on this, it isn't ready for prime time. This has nothing to do with the user.
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Basically exactly what happened to me. Was in class, started typing, then listened to my teachers lecture. Screen turned off. Turned back on to continue typing, all work was gone.
Have there been any new updates in the mobile word processing field?

Anyone notice you can't copy paste the text you have typed into Polaris office into anywhere else on the tablet? Like, you CAN copy paste within the application itself, but if you copy something and then try to paste it into, say, gmail, or something, it won't paste. It has its own clipboard or something. Very annoying.
I've been using "Jota Text Editor" because I can use the keyboard dock to hit ctrl+s or ctrl+o etc to save and open a document, but unfortunately the dev hasn't added support for bolding or italicizing, etc.
I wish in Polaris I could ctrl+b and ctrl+i and ctrl+u to activate and deactivate bold on things I highlight, that is a big thing for me. If this other text editor can register ctrl+o and such to open a file why can't Polaris?
Jota still has the same copy paste problem as Polaris however, but it is more user-friendly for me. It's like using Notepad on Windows, just a simple text editor.
/end mini-rant

Quick office seems good.....
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klau1 said:
just wait till Softmakers SoftOffice comes out for Android. their windows mobile version of Word was as featureful as Ms word.
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The beta of TextMaker for Android works very well in retaining document formats from Word & having a decent set of features, it is just very slow at the moment & not ready for release. I don't think it will be long though.
I have tried all the Office apps I can find, SoftMaker are the best for WP, not sure on spreadsheet. QuickOffice has a nice interface but screw up Word documents.

You can always just go to docs.google.com in the browser and use that, it works fine and has all these features.

the one flaw it has is that it cant save word 07 or docx files, docstogo can. But docstogo is to simple and cant insert pictures. i still like polaris a little better.

I was liking Polaris, until I discovered that you can't save a google doc back to the cloud without deleting it and re-uploading it (wiping out the revision history and any sharing settings). Are there any editors that handle this better (other than the crappy official gdocs app or the website)?

My CHECKED Apps on sweet TF101

First, sorry for my poor English. Hope you'll understand me.
Been holding this sweet device for about 5 days and now I want to share with you all some apps I'm using. I've checked them so they'll mostly work fine on your TF (there's some FC but rarely). Please fix me if there's any mistake.
And here we begin, I'll show you my desktop and apps list 1st:
Main Screen
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Left from Main Screen
Right from Main Screen
App#1
App#2
App#3
1. ACV - Comic Reader
Work fine.
I installed this to read some compressed comic but I prefer Manga Watcher over it so I extract the zip files and use that instead. (FYI: Manga Watcher HD will be release soon).
Some like Mango, but I used it and still like Manga Watcher the best, just my opinion.
2. AdFree
Require ROOT.
Work fine, not 100% though.
I use this to get rid of the ads in File Manager HD, it works so I think it'll work for other apps.
3. Adobe Reader
Of coz it works but not impressive. Slow and nothing special.
Just installed it when I first bought the TF and haven't removed it yet.
I installed ezPDFReader and RepliGo Reader later. They're greater than the other PDF Readers. and I found out RepliGo Reader is the best, it's fast, it's smooth, that's why it's best.
4. Advanced Task Killer
Require ROOT.
Work well.
5. AVG Antivirus Free version
Don't know if it works well because my TF is rooted so when I scan it says to remove the Super User.
6. Barcode Scanner
Work great.
7. Battery Monitor Widget
Require ROOT.
The Current Widget doesn't work for me so I use this and it's cool. You can track the consumer, how long to charge from 0->100% and how long it'll drop from 100%->0%,.. any many more, check it yourself.
8. Café
Just a Vietnamese news reader You needn't care
9. Camera360
Yes, one of the greatest camera apps. You'll have tons of fun with it.
10. ColorNote
I've been using this since I still have the HD2 in my hand (now I sold it to buy this TF ). I'd say it's the best on 2.x device but maybe not on 3.x. Anyway, it's cool because you can choose color for your note and drag it out on the desktop screen.
11. Dictionary of English Oxford
12. Dolphin Browser HD
I use stock browser most the time. But there're times it couldn't download (like filesonic.com) so I switch to Dolphin and it works great.
And there're times the stock browser close immediately without saying anything, no warning, no fc... :-s I don't know why and it's keep happening lots today. Dolphin is the choice in this case.
13. DroidIris
Search images on google, bing and some other sites.
Used this on HD2 and now on TF.
Work FANTASTIC!!
The thumbs are a bit blur (because this app is not for tablet) but check it out, you'll find it greater than using browser, go to google.com and search for images.
14. Dropbox
Use this to share some important files with my PC
Work fine!
15. ES File Explorer
Used this on HD2. It have rooted options (for Cyanogen and one other - don't remember the name).
It can browse file on LAN, FTP...
It works GREAT!
But then I knew File Manager HD, ES File Explorer became my 2nd choice
16. Evernote
Installed this because some site said it's GREAT.
It works, yes, very nice.
17. ezPDF Reader
As I said above, this is greater than the Adobe Reader and some other PDF Readers (but I think it's slower than RepliGo). It has the flipping page effect while RepliGo doesn't
18. FPse
PSX emulator
Work FANTASTIC!!!!
I've tested Final Fantasy IX and Yugi Oh! and they works well.
19. Fruit Ninja HD
Needless to say
20. Gõ Tiếng Việt
A Vietnamese Keyboard.
Not optimized for Honeycomb tablet but it's the best on the market at the moment.
Still doesn't support multi-touch, so bad.
21. GPS Status
Check the GPS Status, Signal...
When I first bought my TF, the GPS worked well.
Now I'm in my hometown (300km far from the place I bough it) the GPS doesn't work :| I can't locate my current location, it kept located the previous location... Don't know the reason till now...
22. HD Wallpapers
It works, a bit slower for me.
I use this to download some hi-res wallpaper for this TF.
The wallpaper I'm using now is downloaded using this app. It's big, very big, more than enough for you to set wallpaper.
23. IM+ Pro
Work fine but doesn't have voice and video function. What a waste!
Later I found the .apk files of yahoo messenger and skype (I couldn't search for it on the market). Then this IM+ just stay there I'm using Y!M and Skype instead.
24. JustPictures!
Best images browser ever!!! Can browse pics on your flickr and some others account, and of coz on your device.
Work GREAT!
25. Lịch Việt
A Vietnamese calendar.
Work fine.
26. Locus
GPS app that can use offline.
Work but I'm having problems with my GPS now so I couldn't check much.
27. Manga Watcher
Yeah! My most fav app. Worked GREAT on HD2 and now even GREATER on TF.
You can download tons of manga on the internet (mangafox.com, mangareader.net, blah blah ) and some hentai for the donated version).
You can also copy files from PC and add them into the library to read.
28. Messenger
It's Yahoo Messenger for Android device.
This is the version for 2.x but I installed it and it work well. You can send file, can use video calling (but you can't choose the front camera ) )
29. Mobo Player
I'm using 4 players: Mobo Player, mVideoPlayer, VPlayer and Rock Player.
None of them is the best because there're files they couldn't play while the others could, so I just have to switch between them.
This one can play MKV 720p, but without sub.
30. Moon+ Reader
I don't like the interface and the controls of this app at all. But the pro of this app is it can add OPDS library (if you don't know what OPDS is, just google it)
31. mVideoPlayer
Can play MKV 720p with sub.
32. myColorGuide
Just installed this for fun. It's an Adobe Air app which show you the PANTONE palette
33. NhacCuaTui
An Online Music Player for Vietnamese.
Work fine, sometimes fc (even on 2.x)
34. NhacCuaTui Downloader
Download music from nhaccuatui.com to your device for offline playing
35. PicSay Pro
Work great.
Nothing else to say.
36. Plants vs Zombie HD
It works at the beginning, but if you do anything like increase or decrease volume the screen will turn black, you still hear sound..
So, this app can be marked at NOT WORK
37. Pure Grid Calendar
A cool Calendar Widget with many options. Check it you for yourself!!!
38. QDict Lite
If you've ever used Windows Mobile devices you'll probably know MDict - a great app of all time. On iOS there're some app that can read .MDX files (I don't know its name 'cause I don't like iPad, iPhone or iPad, any i***, maybe it's MDict )
Now we have QDict, it can read .MDX files. Great and Great.
Even not the best but you won't get any prob with this app.
39. Quick Boot
Work GREAT!
Require ROOT!
You can choose Reboot, Power Off, Recovery and Bootloader. (I haven't check Recovery and Bootloader, s.o plz do it for me).
40. QuickOffice Pro HD
Like the name says, it's HD version so it's optimized for tablet.
It works GREAT, though there's not as many function as Polaris Office that come with TF.
41. RepliGo Reader
BEST PDF Reader at the moment for Android devices.
Fast, smooth, what do you want more?
42. RockPlayer
... don't know what to say.
43. Root Explorer
Require ROOT.
I used this to modify some system file.
This is the best root explorer
44. Samurai II: Vengeance
Yes, it works fine. Don't know if it's just me but I feel this game is a bit laggy (just a little bit) on my TF.
45. SBM You know what it is? SketchBook Mobile of Autodesk
At the moment this maybe the BEST sketch, drawing app on Android devices.
You can choose the opacity, the thickness of your brush, pen, ...
Try it It won't hurt
46. Screen Off and Lock
Require ROOT.
Work GREAT.
I use this to turn off the screen without pressing the power button.
It has some effects when the screen turn off (I chose Old TV)
47. Skype
Work great.
I can do audio calling with this version, but not video calling :-s
48. Speed Test
Work fine.
Test you internet connection speed (speedtest.net)
49. TeamViewer
Work fine.
Somehow like MyCould but you can connect to any device (PC, Android, ...) as long as it connects to the internet
50. Thumb Keyboard
Work GREAT.
Just google it and you'll see how it looks.
51. Titanium Backup
Require ROOT.
NAND Backup
Best of the best.
52. TubeMaster
Work.
Download youtube video to your device.
53. Unlock Facebook
For Vietnamese Only.
Work on TF but you must do some tweak.
54. Unrar Pro
Like the name says, it decompress .RAR file.
Work GREAT
55. Vạn Sự Lành
App for Vietnamese.
56. Volume+
Use this to increase the volume after update to 3.1.
Work really GREAT!!!
57. VPlayer
As I said above, I use 4 players.
This one could play .FLV while others couldn't
58. XDA
Work but sometimes FC (anyone get better version plz let me know)
59. Zedge
I've used this since HD2. Work really GREAT.
But now I can't use this app to download wallpaper anymore, it's too small for TF But you can still download ringtone.
Phew, if you want to know more about each app, just reply
Thanks for your time. Hope you'll enjoy this

Nice! You have a lot of detail here, I appreciate it and I've gone and got a few you mentioned.
#38. QDict Lite-I couldn't find it in the market store or Amazon. Could it be under another name?
LOL-so I'm not the only one getting a black screen with Plants vs Zombies. Twice now and the last time I just let it sit overnight, then it came back to life just fine-strange and I wasn't adjusting the volume...must be more than one thing sitting it off. But, such a fun game!
Thanks again, I like your list and know this took a lot of time-appreciated!

You must search for QDict using google.com, not market, not amazon.
If you can't find it send me an email and I'll send it to you.
My email: [email protected]

Or visit http://mail.ustc.edu.cn/~wchao911/
It's in chinese so use google translate to find out which link is download.
It seems there's a newer version than the one I'm using. Will check later.
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For future reference, you could just use AppBrain and it would list all the apps on your phone/tablet rather than going in depth of each app. But the description of every app is pretty cool. Very informative.
Example: http://www.appbrain.com/user/zephiK/apps-on-the-nexus-s
(Not TF101 but you get the idea)

zephiK said:
For future reference, you could just use AppBrain and it would list all the apps on your phone/tablet rather than going in depth of each app. But the description of every app is pretty cool. Very informative.
Example: http://www.appbrain.com/user/zephiK/apps-on-the-nexus-s
(Not TF101 but you get the idea)
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Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. What I did is a short summary of apps on my device, what work, what not and what best Because TF uses HC so there're apps won't work or work but not optimized ^^

fantasticlord said:
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. What I did is a short summary of apps on my device, what work, what not and what best Because TF uses HC so there're apps won't work or work but not optimized ^^
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Yeah when apps aren't made for tablets, they can appear awful because of the size. I would make a AppBrain for my TF101 but I don't have enough apps on it yet that it would even any useful so I didn't bother yet.

fantasticlord,
Thanks for the reply, now I understand why I couldn't find QDict Lite.(s)

Best Word Processor?

What is the best word processor designed for Honeycomb thus far that gives many of the features that MS Word also gives, such as formatting options, spell check, ect.
I'm basically looking for the most complete world processor out there for Honeycomb.

Probably Polaris.. comes with the TF

Documents to GO has been my go-to app since the beginning.
It works flawlessly. Although Polaris looks a lot nicer.

Polaris looks the best but I last I tried I couldn't open a word or spreadsheet document created with it in openoffice or libreoffice (free MS office alternatives), which ruins it for me. I don't know whether they have updated or fixed this issue since I last checked..

Ohh, shoot, I haven't tried that yet. Hmm, I use openoffice on my laptop too, are you saving it in openoffice format or .doc?

I want to save them as .doc files so that I can easily switch between working on my PC with MS Word, and my TF with what ever word processor I end up using.

Have anybody tried Quickoffice Pro HD?

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Have anybody tried Quickoffice Pro HD?
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Wondering this as well. I want something as close as to Office as possible

Check out the link in my signature. Trust me, you are not the first one to ask this question. What is not in the review are the online programs like Google Docs and Microsoft Live Office. Both are pretty cool and the latter looks almost exactly like the real office programs!

What about the new thinkfree app?
http://tablified.com/business/thinkfree-mobile/
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This is a very neat UI! I just bought it and if I ever find time I will include it in my comparison. It definitely has a lot of potential although it has many shortcomings regarding formatting and TrueType interpretation. PowerPoint ("Show") seems to be affected in particular.
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What about the new thinkfree app?
http://tablified.com/business/thinkfree-mobile/
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funnycreature said:
This is a very neat UI! I just bought it and if I ever find time I will include it in my comparison. It definitely has a lot of potential although it has many shortcomings regarding formatting and TrueType interpretation. PowerPoint ("Show") seems to be affected in particular.
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Since you are the guru on this, please, tested and let us know how is it and what is your opinion.
I was looking at it last night and was close to buy the app, but I prefer for you to let us know what you think.
Thank you

This post is very helpful and seems related.
Also: no one has suggested just using Microsoft Word on your desktop/laptop via VPN. I know a couple of people like to do that.
My plan is to write documents using either the onboard application or Google Docs (depending on which app works better and if I am connected), then use something like TeamViewer or Logmein to do the nitty-gritty formatting.

Thank you for the compliment but unfortunately I don't have as much time as I used to I'll do me best though since I want to know myself! I'll update my comparison thread once I did it!
jwilliamf said:
Since you are the guru on this, please, tested and let us know how is it and what is your opinion.
I was looking at it last night and was close to buy the app, but I prefer for you to let us know what you think.
Thank you
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I've tried a few word processing programs as I've looked for something as good as MS Word or Open Office. So far, I've not found anything that can replace these programs. All of them lack certain key features - including google docs, polaris, quick office HD, documents 2 go. I haven't tried thinkoffice yet, but it doesn't look much better. I just now tried MS Live Office, but it wouldn't work on the tab - i got a page that said I needed to use MS Explorer or Firefox to access it. It looks like the most full featured option, but unless we can get past this browser limit, it doesn't matter on the TF.
Polaris office is the best so far, though I haven't tried to open the documents in open office, so I can't speak to that problem. I used QuickOffice HD up until the 3.2 update because copy/paste in polaris was broken.

help with polaris
I need help. I am a new tf owner and I can not get polaris to work. I have tried two google and one box accounts. When I go to set up the account I get an error message saying that it can not connect to the Web server. I was able to connect to one google account once then I added files to it and could no longer connect, same error message. I even tried creating a new box account and that did not work. Any help would be great

AirDroid... yet another like Remote Web Desktop

I'm not, by any means, a developer or affiliated with AirDroid in any way. <--- definitely advertising
I came across this app earlier today and it is honestly one of the most useful apps I've ever seen. It gives one the potential to view his or her messages, calls, contacts, files and everything else on your phone FROM YOUR PC (or Mac) WEB BROWSER. All you have to do is type in a gateway that you get once you open the app on your phone. It'll take you to a log-in screen, which precedes a "desktop" with all of your phone-everything.
One of the coolest things is that it automatically syncs anything you do within the web browser to your phone and vice-versa. I.E. this is one of the few/only app(s) that will show pictures and full contact details within the web browser. Unlike other apps, if you send or receive messages, your phone logs and conversations will also be updated..as if you never used the app to begin with.
Per usual, you need to be connected to the same wifi network from your phone and PC/Mac/iPad/tablet you'll use to "control" your phone.
There aren't any notable downsides that I've read of or come across. This is simply a solid app that has unlimited potential.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sand.airdroid
*Just to clarify, I purposely did not put this in the app section. I'm not attempting to solicit the app, only get the word of mouth out and get a discussion going on how you all feel about AirDroid<--- definitely advertising
AllGamer said:
i guess you guys never seen this from 2 years ago? FREE!
Remote Web Desktop
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.xdevelop.rm
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apparently this air drive people just ripped off the idea from Remote Web Desktop
i've been using it since AOSP 2.1
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Awesome app
sent from my real Gs move in silence like lasagna

wow reminds me alot of OSX air drop lol, this is soo cool!

im getting it

Doesn't Kies Air do the same thing?

Scyke said:
Doesn't Kies Air do the same thing?
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As a rule of thumb I delete Kies Air at first because it's bloat to me. But I tried using it as often as I'd use AirDroid. Kies Air is just so slow, laggy and well...bloated. At least the web version. I'm the kind of person who loads saves ALL of his texts. So Kies attempts to automatically load EVERYTHING on your phone at once: texts, calls, music, pictures, videos, files. Software-wise it's not necessarily efficient.
To answer the original question- yes. But this is faster and cleaner in every definition of the words. Much simpler UI with faster transfer speeds and won't hog up your bandwidth because it only loads data as needed.
*Edit from here and below:
I guess the reason for the lag behind Kies Air is due to the fact that it runs a Java applet on your web browser. AirDroid runs a much cleaner JavaScript that's linked with HTML5, as I understand.
It's up to you, of course. But after trying both, I don't think there's any actual competition as to which app is significantly faster and more efficient.

Scyke said:
Doesn't Kies Air do the same thing?
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Yes, in some aspects Kies Air does the same thing.
However, AirDroid is 12094820394823 times faster! The ease of the interface is amazing. It's a truly innovative application if you do a lot of files transfers through your phone. I use my phone like a thumb drive all the time. This only makes it easier. Sending messages while doing work on my laptop without having to type on the phone's keyboard? Yes please.
I would easily pay for this app.
I would like to see a novel contact manager built into the app. Something that is really functional and efficient. We all know that google contacts and android's address book are both a little weak in the functionality department. If the developers of the app can make such a solid app, I'm sure they can come up with a creative contact manager to integrate into AirDroid.

awesome app, but it would be even more awesome if u can fully utilize your phone (like literally browse through phone functions on a PC) on the web browser

StickyK3ys said:
Yes, in some aspects Kies Air does the same thing.
However, AirDroid is 12094820394823 times faster! The ease of the interface is amazing. It's a truly innovative application if you do a lot of files transfers through your phone. I use my phone like a thumb drive all the time. This only makes it easier. Sending messages while doing work on my laptop without having to type on the phone's keyboard? Yes please.
I would easily pay for this app.
I would like to see a novel contact manager built into the app. Something that is really functional and efficient. We all know that google contacts and android's address book are both a little weak in the functionality department. If the developers of the app can make such a solid app, I'm sure they can come up with a creative contact manager to integrate into AirDroid.
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+1 to all of the above
XxGoKoUxX said:
awesome app, but it would be even more awesome if u can fully utilize your phone (like literally browse through phone functions on a PC) on the web browser
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I kinda thought that was part of the gig when I first got it. Nonetheless, this app made my main home screen lol. I guess that's what our awesome HDMI-MHL adapter is for

u kno what would be cool! to bump music, over nfc

HRodMusic said:
u kno what would be cool! to bump music, over nfc
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Not to sound mean but the 'Thanks' I gave you was on accident lol.
Theoretically music via NFC is the same as Bluetooth right? Unless you're talking about something else

one of the best apps for android.its the first up i restore each time i change ROMs.
simply beautiful.

yoniam said:
one of the best apps for android.its the first up i restore each time i change ROMs.
simply beautiful.
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+1 to that my friend

Joy2DaWurld said:
Not to sound mean but the 'Thanks' I gave you was on accident lol.
Theoretically music via NFC is the same as Bluetooth right? Unless you're talking about something else
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Hahah OK
Sent from my SGH-T989 using xda premium

This looks absolutely amazing. They must have spent quite a bit of time to make this app as awesome as it is. And completely free? Crazy.
Which is the only reason I have qualms about it. How can a company invest so much into an app that generates no revenue whatsoever in the Market?
I am always weary of apps that have complete access to all of your personal information (which the app needs to work correctly) and have no obvious avenue for generating revenue.
Maybe I'm missing something here? Are there ads?

i guess you guys never seen this from 2 years ago? FREE!
Remote Web Desktop
https://market.android.com/details?id=net.xdevelop.rm
apparently this air drive people just ripped off the idea from Remote Web Desktop
i've been using it since AOSP 2.1

Thanks for supporting AirDroid. Actually now, AirDroid also supports remote access to your mobile, even when your mobile is not around and not in the same wifi, you can access it to Web browser by enabling the auto wake up mode in APP.

There should be a screen viewer option.

Nice work
http://i.imgur.com/0OBoXTC.jpg @ted77usa

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Yes, in some aspects Kies Air does the same thing.
I would like to see a novel contact manager built into the app. Something that is really functional and efficient. We all know that google contacts and android's address book are both a little weak in the functionality department. If the developers of the app can make such a solid app, I'm sure they can come up with a creative contact manager to integrate into AirDroid.
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To the first point, Kies is Samsung proprietary. They may do similar things and Airdroid is faster, but for the HTC phones I have, Kies really lacks in the "working" dept.
Secondarily, I am unsure if your statement includes the web-based Google Contacts in desktop browser but I find it quite sufficient for my needs and is obviously synced with Android if you use Google apps.
For every other need, I would imagine the import/export functionality of Google Contacts would make it easily portable to other platforms and then able to be ported back. "Insert simple script here " tacked on to said platform enables full auto sync.