Office2 also provides integration with Google Docs, letting you edit Google Docs documents and spreadsheets from within the app. You can also access, move, and delete documents stored in Google Docs, iDisk and any WebDAV server.

The Office2 word processor lets you view, create, edit and save documents in Word 97-2003 (.doc) format. It also supports character formatting, tables, images, searching of text within documents, undo and redo up to 100 undo levels, and auto-correction and auto-completion.

The Office2 spreadsheet works with Excel 97-2003 (.xls) and handles multiple worksheets with unlimited rows and columns, searching and sorting of cells, cell formatting, cell types, and pane freezing among other spreadsheet necessities. Office2 uses the iPhone’s touch screen effectively, letting you tap and drag to change row heights and column widths, and tap cells to compose formulas.

Those of you cringing at the thought of doing any sort of document or spreadsheet work on an iPhone or iPod touch will probably do best avoiding this app—or hold out for an iPad and its customized version of the iWork apps—but for those who often need to review and edit documents and spreadsheets while on the go, this app could make life easier.

Now, I don’t want to tell these developers what to do. But I will. Developers, download the software-development kit for the iPad and get iPad versions of your apps working on the device for its launch!

There will be a lot of debate about the iPad’s viability as a product. Will it sell? Will it make a good e-book reader? Will it save the newspaper industry? And we’ll probably debate all of those items in the coming days.

But for now, let’s take a moment to consider the humble comic-book lovin’ geek. The iPad may be the best device yet invented for the reading of digital comics. The iPhone is nice, but its screen is just too small — zoomed out, a comic page is unreadable. Zoomed in, there’s a whole lot of panning around going on.

But the iPad’s 1024-by-768-pixel display, while in the unfashionable 4:3 aspect ratio, is just about the right shape for a comic-book page. And the iPad packs enough pixels that comic pages should be readable at full-size on the iPad. At worst, the panning around should be kept to a minimum.

A comic page shrunk down to the iPad's screen resolution should still be quite readable, as this extremely cropped sample image suggests.

Presumably these developers are already on the case. I know the guys at Comixology, makers of Comics, are: on Wednesday they posted a comics-on-iPad concept video. My reaction: their demo relies a bit too much on their pan-and-scan interface, which works great on the iPhone but seems kind of unnecessary on the iPad. Still, I’m sure there’s plenty of room for innovation and interface variation when it comes to comics apps on the iPad. I can’t wait to try them all!

So, Motorola are back with a bang and the MILESTONE is one of the best spec’d phone to ever run Android. The Google Nexus One is supposed to instill fear in nearly every touchscreen device out there but the Moto Droid must be positioned well enough by now to withstand the attack.

Key features

• Quad-band GSM and dual-band 3G support
• 10.2 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA support
• 3.7" 16M-color capacitive touchscreen of WVGA (480x 854 pixel) resolution
• Android OS v2.0 with kinetic scrolling and pinch zooming
• Slimmest side slider with full QWERTY Keyboard
  

  yet

• Great build quality
• ARM Cortex A8 600MHz CPU, PowerVR SGX graphics accelerator; 256 MB of RAM
• 5 MP autofocus camera with dual-LED Flash and geo-tagging
• D1 (720 x 480 pixels) video recording @ 24fps
• Wi-Fi and GPS with A-GPS
• 133MB storage, microSD slot, bundled 8GB card
• Accelerometer and proximity sensor
• Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
• microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v2.1

Main disadvantages

• No DivX and XviD video playback
• No smart and voice dialing
• Somewhat clumsy camera interface and limited camera features
• No free GPS navigation solution
• No Flash support for the web browser
• No FM radio

There’s hardly anything missing on the Motorola MILESTONE spec sheet so we should be ready for an exciting ride. The test-drive got us impressed: at the end of our preview we felt positive about the MILESTONE prospects. So now, the Moto DROID has a full review ahead to build on that good impression.

Considering the rate of its sales, the handset is doing well from a user point of view too. Yet, a short-lived success is just not good enough for Motorola: the company doesn’t have the resources to come up with an equally talented successor as quick as some of the competitors. So, the MILESTONE needs to stick around the top of the sales charts for at least a few months to give Motorola some breathing space.

Just as expected, today Apple announced their iPad tablet. It's not everyday that you see news about something other than mobile phones at our homepage but considering the hype that one this generated we just couldn't help ourselves.

The tablet is actually running a UI very similar to the iPhone's and is compatible with all its apps. However it can only use its 3G connectivity for data transfers so it doesn't quality as a phone.

Sholes Tablet will probably go on sale in second half of 2010. With Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10 also set to release in the same year as Sholes Tablet and with 8 megapixels camera, things are surely looking good for theAndroid camp. [via BGR]

“Consumers from every segment of the population are looking for more out of their mobile device – more power, more ability, more connectivity. The Nokia N900 ushers in a new era with a very powerful mobile computer,” said Alessandro Lamanna, Vice President, Retail Sales, Nokia.

“With an open source operating system, incorporated technology like an OMAP processor, and real time web widgets, the Nokia N900 delivers the experience of a pocketable computer that has the information you’re looking for right there waiting for you thanks to the ability to be connected just about anywhere.”

Other features include 32GB of built in storage and features a 5 megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss lens and a dual LED flash.

On top of that there is support for microSDHC cards up to 16GB and it features a built in FM transmitter, HSPA, WiFi and Bluetooth A2DP connectivity as well as GPS.

Today I was looking for one cool mobile handset and I reached to one cell phone of Motorola and I found it really cool and useful. The dimension of the Motorola MotoYuva A810 is 105 x 51 x 14 mm and the weight of the set is near to 100 gm.

The handset is having a multimedia capabilities via touch screen, and a 2 Mega Pixel camera. This set supports MP4, MP3, AAC, Midi, AMR, WMA formats. The set has a strong entertainment sections like inbuilt stereo FM radio.

It has a Polyphonic and MP3 ring tones. Even you can make a photo call from the cell too. You can keep a track of 30 dialed, 30 received, and 30 missed calls. The only thing is that it has a 2G phone not a 3G one.

So over all it is a useful phone for the young generation. Enjoy the MotoYuva A810.

The luxury phone manufacturer adorns its mobile pieces with a selection of genuine leathers or wood derived from controlled sources. Clientele can choose from 110 exotic leathers including shark, lizard, alligator, and buffalo leather. If you like wooden gadgets, then you might like the “Finest Woods” luxurious cell phone from Bellperre. The phone is made out of “the very finest authentic materials” including hand-crafted Walnut, Elm, Zebrano or Wenge woods. Each Bellperre’s handset can also be customized with hand-polished steel color (gold or platinum), 110 types of genuine exotic leathers (shark, lizard, alligator, buffalo, etc), and diamonds/gemstones.Their latest line proffers an array of classic wood exteriors like walnut, elm, wenge and zebrano.

Skilled craftsmen take into account the burrs and grain of every piece of wood obtained from sustainable forests before selecting it for use. The wood is handcrafted and treated to survive critical conditions too.The handset has dimensions of 100mm x 44mm x 15.3mm and weighs 120gms light. the Bellperre’s ‘Finest Woods’ is a non-3G cell phone that supports connectivity over 900/1800/1900 MHz GSM bands and features a 2-inch Sapphire crystal scratch-resistant display screen, Bluetooth, and Microsoft Windows Mobile OS. There is no word on pricing at this time, but we are sure it won’t be cheap.The phone can be given a steel, rose gold, yellow gold, brushed black or platinum colored hand-polished finishing, depending on client preference.

Bellperre has been creating these Italian design inspired luxury mobile handsets for almost half a decade now.

Not that we’re not happy to know the release is just around the corner, but there are things we can’t understand. There’s the Bold 2 in queue and it’s a pretty darn interesting smartphone to do with, there’s also one of the most craved for mobile of the year, the Droid, and Verizon does what? Announce the new BB Storm 2 for the end of October? Doesn’t it sound like they’re trying to “actually” bury it.

Those who can’t remember, BlackBerry Storm 2 packs a 3.2 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, the BlackBerry OS 5.0, threaded texting, an enhanced SurePress typing system that would employ Piezo technology, more durable rubber keys and a highly responsive screen and capabilities to display orientation in no time.

For European consumers, the Palm Pre has been a long time coming. Announced – in CDMA form – back in January 2009, with Palm coyly dancing around the matter of a GSM version until its Sprint launch took place in June, the smartphone has even gained a sibling (in the shape of the Palm Pixi) before those across the Atlantic have had a chance to play with the original. That’s all finally changing this month, with carrier O2 exclusively offering the Pre in the UK and Ireland from October 16th and Germany from October 13th. Has time dulled the Pre’s appeal? SlashGear have been testing out the GSM Palm Pre; check out our full review after the cut.

In terms of hardware, the O2 Pre is almost exactly the same as the Sprint Pre we reviewed back in June. That means you get the same 3.1-inch 320 x 480 capacitive touchscreen, the slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 3-megapixel fixed-focus camera and both Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and WiFi b/g. Where they differ is in the 3G connectivity; while Sprint’s Pre uses EVDO Rev.A for its high-speed mobile browsing, the O2 version has UMTS/HSPA with EDGE/GSM support.

What the GSM Pre won’t have, at least initially, is the latest version of webOS. For manufacturing deadline reasons, Palm and O2 will ship the Pre with webOS 1.1.3, a few updates behind the Sprint CDMA model. According to Palm, the eventual aim is “parity” between the two devices, but that won’t come until later on in 2009.

There’s also, despite it being ten months since the Pre made its surprise debut at CES in January, no microSD memory card slot; the handset still makes do with 8GB of onboard storage, of which around 7GB is available to the user. That seemed short-sighted in January, miserly in June and now, in October, feels downright unacceptable. When Apple’s iPhone 3GS offers 16GB as a baseline, and other platforms – Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian – use microSD cards for up to 32GB of swappable storage, for Palm to limit their flagship device in this way seems ridiculous.

The physical design is still a mixed bag, with what feel like high-quality plastics let down in places by unduly sharp edges to the keyboard-slide lip and elsewhere at the split-point. While the Pre opens with a satisfying click, there’s side-to-side wobble in the screen hinge which is disappointing. As for the QWERTY keyboard itself, that’s provoked different responses; the keys are hard rubber and are reasonably spaced given the limitations of the hardware – the Pre is a surprisingly compact handset – but we don’t feel they offer a significant knock-out blow over and above an on-screen keyboard.

Where the Pre really shines is in its software, and webOS has proved an ongoing pleasure in its harmonious use of gestures and multitouch. The central concept is that open applications are “cards” splayed across the main display, and which you can reshuffle by dragging them into new orders, or dismiss by flicking them up off the top of the screen. New alerts are quietly pushed up at the bottom of the display in the form of tiny icons – an envelope for new email, a speech bubble for an SMS message, etc – and are then previewed when you tap on that icon; a further tap opens the message, while a sideways flick dismisses it.

These sideways flicks also feature in the messaging inboxes, used to delete unwanted emails and texts. We’ve been impressed by how quickly it’s possible to triage a hectic inbox on the Pre, in many cases without even needing to open most messages. As well as showing sender, subject and part of the first line by default, you can also pinch-zoom on an individual message to see a bigger preview, even with HTML formatting maintained. Unlike in loading new cards, which can be punctuated by the occasional lag as the Pre’s CPU catches up, churning through email is generally slick and speedy; the handset supports POP and IMAP accounts, together with Exchange push-email.

The Pre’s main menu is split into two, with a quick-launch bar of four shortcuts and the menu launcher that runs along the bottom of the homescreen, and the full menu itself. The launcher can be called up by tapping and holding in the black section under the display – what Palm call the gesture area, and which has an invisible capacitive touchscreen layer – then pulling up, at which point the launcher floats above the active card. In the center of the gesture area is a small silver stud (illuminated when new messages arrive) which takes you back to the card view. We covered more of the basics of webOS navigation back in our original Pre review, and they haven’t changed in this new GSM version.

Something else that hasn’t changed – unfortunately – is the accuracy demands of webOS, and we’ve been caught out a few times when taps fail to be recognised. The Pre’s small, round function buttons, such as the trash or reply controls, are particularly prone to this, as is the small drop-down menu button in the top left-hand corner of the display.

Back at launch, Palm made much of their universal search and Synergy on the Pre, two areas where rival platforms have quickly caught up. Despite the name, universal search isn’t quite all-encompassing; start typing from the homescreen and it will pull up apps and contacts, then offer Google, Google Maps, Wikipedia and Twitter search, but in 1.1.3 there’s no email or calendar searches. As for Synergy, this pulls together Facebook, Exchange, Google Contacts and other sources of contact-data and harmonises them into a single address book; it works reasonably well, though as with any data-convergence system it depends on how many contacts you have in each source. Meanwhile calendars are also combined, intelligently showing empty space for new appointments; however you still can’t add a single new entry to multiple calendars at once.