Android Business/Office apps

Documents To Go App for Android

Documents To Go brings the much needed enterprise capability to Android devices, and it’ll come handy to those who heavily use their Android handsets at work. Documents To Go Android app lets its users create, edit, view, and save Word and Excel files from within from the Android handset. It also let users add formatting such as font settings, underlining, font color, bulleted and numbered lists, alignment, tables, bookmarks, footnotes, comments etc, to name a few, to the said Microsoft Office files.

Components

Documents To Go Android app has two components: Word to Go, a well rounded editor for MS Word documents, and Sheet to Go, the Microsoft Excel documents editor.

Word to Go works much like its PC cousin, and it offers the basic features required for writing and editing Word docs in Android. The edit menu offers simple cut, copy, paste, and undo functionality, while the view menu supports jumping around the document, and the functionality to zoom in and out of a page. Also, it allows the users to view and edit headers, footers footnotes, endnotes and the table of contents. Further, the insert menu has the functionalities for insertion of page breaks, hyperlinks, bookmarks, tables and comments, while the format menu supports italic, bold, and underlined text styling. It also supports a few standard fonts/simple paragraph formatting, plus bulleted and numbered lists, indenting and out-denting, and hyperlinks.

Sheet To Go has all the basic Word To Go functionalities, plus Excel specific ones such as row and column insertion/deletion, support for the inclusion of cell comments, and support for functions and auto-sum. It also supports in-cell formulas and calculations. Other column and row functions include Autofit, Select, and Hide/Unhide.

Conclusion

Documents To Go app for Android is not a replacement for a full fledged version of MS Word or Excel, run on a PC or netbook. But it really comes handy to business persons or executives, who might have to work with the abovementioned MS Office documents often, and just can’t wait to reach to a PC/netbook to do the job. Also, Documents To Go is compatible with Windows OS, and can be synchronized/copied with a copy in the PC through a data cable. Documents To Go also works well with PDF and PPT files. Overall, a handy editing tool for executives, its price tag of $20 not withstanding!

Voxmobili Phonebook App for Android

Your Personal Voxmobili Phonebook app for Android

Summary

Normal contact lists are not that intuitive most of the time and when it comes to even a great mobile device like the Google Android, it can be difficult to find the right person to call. That is why Voxmobili created Phonebook, a much more intuitive way to look at your contacts on Google Android. It may not seem like it has that many differences from the average contact list at first, but once you have had the chance to really examine it in close detail, you should find that your first impression was pleasantly incorrect.

User Interaction

Interacting with the Voxmobili Phonebook app for Google Android is about the same as far as adding contacts is concerned. Where this particular Phonebook for Android application really shines is in the retrieval part. The search options make it very easy to scroll through a large list of contacts in order to find a specific one. Furthermore, you can easily sort by different identifying characteristics, ending up with a personal phonebook that is highly customizable to whatever your tastes happen to be at the time. With just a few different interactive options available to you, the Phonebook nevertheless still presents a high level of versatility and flexibility in both search and retrieval functions.

User Interface

The interface of Voxmobili Phonebook app for Android is actually quite easy to look at with Phonebook. The contact list contains a picture plus text for a name and a line of information, all of which is color coded in a way that really makes sense to the average person. In regards to the history however, you might find the bright colors a bit visually jarring at first. You’ll eventually get used to it though and before too long looking at those bright colors will just be second nature to you. All the same, that particular part of the interface is not the greatest and that is why Phonebook loses some points from its overall score as a result of those poor background choices.

Utility and Productivity

Everyone can use a better phonebook on their mobile devices and that is exactly what the Android Phonebook app by Voxmobili provides. It is a more intuitive design for a contact list and that allows you to save a few seconds every time you actually need to find a contact or look up the name of the person that just called. When you consider the number of times you expect to do one of those things over the course of the day, you eventually realize that over the long term you will actually save days or even weeks worth of time through having something like Phonebook on your Google Android.

Rating

On the plus side, Voxmobili Phonebook for the Google Android has the ability to save you oodles of time over the long run. On the negative side however, the interface design and more specifically the color scheme is not as good as it could be. The plus outweighs the minus because functionality always trumps style with these types of software programs. The final score of 8.5 out of 10 reflects this reality.