Tuesday, May 31, 2011

iWork comes to the iPhone and iPod Touch


The central communication  Announced the availability of applications iWork for iPhone and iPod Touch in addition to traditional applications for the iPad. Users can buy the Pages, Keynote and Numbers directly from the App Store, where each of the apps are $ 9.99.


The announcement comes the same week that Apple has confirmed the launch platform iCloud during WWDC, let alone the IOS and the Lion 5. With the information that reaches the iWork smaller devices the apple, the party is complete the company plans to promote its own software products from June 6, next Monday, when the WWDC begins.

Pages, Keynote and Numbers, for those unaware, is the Apple equivalent to Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Can be considered the most basic productivity suite that Apple currently offers its customers with a text editor, presentation creator and spreadsheet application.

This is the first time that iWork comes to iPhone and iPod Touch. The apps were already on a mobile version, but only for IOS iPad. According to Apple, applications are compatible with 4 iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch (G 3rd & 4th G). Who bought the software for any IPAD can be assured that iTunes will also download the version for Apple's smaller devices.

"You can now use Keynote, Pages and Numbers on iPhone and iPod Touch to create presentations, documents and spreadsheets amazing right in the palm of your hand," said Phil Schiller, Apple's marketing leader, in a statement. According to Schiller, Retinal Display technology to be a differential display-quality documents on the laptop screen.

So the company said on the subject, the three applications are fully functional. In other words, are not only view documents but also to create them, as if the consumer was in the home computer. Probably has all the limitations of a display smaller than the minimum 13-inch MacBook one has, but should still be a good choice for anyone who relies on this type of documents.