Comparison of EIGHT major Office Apps [Updated 02/17/2013]
Attention attention! Whenever you thought they were dead they're coming to eat your brains! (or whatever). Please visit the Transformer forum for the comparison that I will update more regularly!
PLEASE NOTE:
I do not have an updated version of Polaris if available since I am running my TF101 on an excellent custom ROM. I also have not found it necessary to update the Documents to Go comparison since the version number increased marginally (and it was never good to begin with).
I also noticed that some apps might benefit from installing the right fonts into the internal memory into root/fonts. My comparison is based on a stock scenario where no additional fonts have been installed.
Updates
Here is the UPDATED overview table including the SoftMaker apps (although there is no "umbrella suite" like in the others). Please take some time to go through the features as some have actually improved!
I have also added the PowerPoint comparison here (did I really never have a separate post for it?) with the most recent office suites and updated the Word comparison.
I also took a screenshot of the "welcome" screen of each suite:
This post is to illustrate the differences in rendering/interpretation of the different Office Suites. The PowerPoint file contains three slides; the first showing the different graphics, the second showing some text formatting, and the third one a table and a graphic with some MS Office 2007+ effects.
Updates
Here is the UPDATED comparison table including SoftMaker Presentations. Please take some time to go through the updated features as some have actually improved!
IMPORTED GRAPHICS
Original Screenshots from Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
Screenshot Documents To Go
Screenshot Picsel Smart Office
Screenshot QuickOffice HD Pro
Screenshot Polaris Office
Screenshot ThinkFree
Screenshot OfficeSuite Pro
Screenshot Kingsoft Office
Screenshot SoftMaker Presentations
TEXT FORMATTING
Original Screenshot from Microsoft PowerPoint 2010:
Screenshot Documents To Go
Screenshot Picsel Smart Office
Screenshot QuickOffice HD Pro
Screenshot Polaris Office
Screenshot ThinkFree
Screenshot OfficeSuite Pro
Screenshot Kingsoft Office
Screenshot SoftMaker Presentations
TABLES AND EFFECTS
Original Screenshot from Microsoft PowerPoint 2010:
Updates
Here is the UPDATED comparison table including SoftMaker Presentations. Please take some time to go through the updated features as some have actually improved!
A good spreadsheet can be used for hundreds of purposes: Inventory, checklists, schedules, shopping lists, etc. I think that this is one of the most important reasons to have a powerful mobile computing device! Unfortunately, there are still severe shortcomings with the currently available spreadsheet apps.
Updates
Here is the UPDATED overview table including the SoftMaker apps (although there is no "umbrella suite" like in the others). Please take some time to go through the features as some have actually improved!
Here is the overview table for a quick evaluation of some common/important features:
TEXT AND CELL FORMATS
Original Screenshots from Microsoft Excel 2010
Screenshot Documents To Go
Screenshot Picsel Smart Office
Screenshot QuickOffice HD Pro
(It took forever to open the file and to switch tabs)
Screenshot Polaris Office
Screenshot ThinkFree
Screenshot PlanMaker
Screenshot OfficeSuite Pro+
Screenshot Kingsoft Office (taken form 2003 .xls file)
TEXT AND CELL FORMATS
Original Screenshots from Microsoft Excel 2010
Screenshot Documents To Go
(note: this is obviously a montage; the charts are NOT shown and need to be viewed one by one)
Screenshot Picsel Smart Office
Screenshot QuickOffice HD Pro
Screenshot Polaris Office
Screenshot ThinkFree
Screenshot OfficeSuite Pro+
Screenshot Kingsoft Office (had to use 2003 [.xls] format since .xlsx kept crashing)
I prefer QuickOffice to Documents to Go if not just because I think it looks better on the large screen, but also the cloud sync for Google Docs, dropBox and other cloud services is phenomenal. I keep 90% of all the docs I use in the cloud so I can use them literally any where.
QuickOffice to me (in daily use) just seemed to keep up with typing and react to the keyboard a bit better.
I never tried PicSel, but some of the reviews I had read said it still needed alot of work on a tab.
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