Work smarter on the move : Picsel updates popular Picsel Smart Office application
March 23, 2011 - Glasgow, Scotland 
View and edit documents with ease on mobiles and tablets with Picsel Smart Office on iOS, Android, Bada, Symbian and Vodafone 360 platforms.
Picsel UK today announces that its popular application, Picsel Smart Office, has been updated to version 1.5 with enhanced features that make working on the move easier than ever before. Picsel Smart Office was the first and only document editor to deliver a consistent viewing and editing experience across the Apple App Store, Android Market and Samsung Apps, and Picsel are also pleased to reveal that the application is now available to even more consumers worldwide through Nokia’s Ovi Store and the Vodafone 360 platform.
Picsel Smart Office’s superior document viewing and editing software has brought the next generation of mobile office solutions to millions of handsets today. The updated version of Picsel Smart Office adds more functionality to allow users to work smarter from their mobile. For example, Picsel Smart Office now allows users to take full advantage of cloud-based working by offering users the opportunity to view, edit and save revised documents onto Dropbox accounts straight from their mobile. Picsel Smart Office also makes editing documents even easier by updating the popular contextual editing and drag and drop interface. For example, Picsel Smart Office now includes a slide sorter interface to edit PowerPoint documents which allows users to easily reorder slides by simply dragging and dropping them into their new position.
As well as extending Picsel Smart Office onto new platforms, Picsel has also developed a specific version of the application for tablets which takes advantage of the larger screens. For example, when users select text to edit, a call-out box with editing options will appear instead of a ribbon at the bottom of the screen.
Imran Khand, CEO at Picsel UK, explains: “We’re delighted with the popularity of our current Picsel Smart Office application, but we’re not stopping there. We want to help our users to have a seamless mobile office experience and we have listened to their feedback on the first version of Picsel Smart Office to add in new features that they want, and to enhance the features that they really enjoy and use. For example, consumers are no longer happy just to be able to store their documents in the cloud and access them from their computers; they want to view and edit these files from their mobile as well, so we added this functionality to the application. Picsel Smart Office v1.5 will help users work smarter on the move.”
As the successor to the world’s most popular document viewing system, Picsel File Viewer, which was installed on over 400 million mobile handsets, Picsel Smart Office has become a popular choice for consumers who want to do more with their mobile.
Picsel Smart Office’s new version is available for the Apple App Store, Android Market, Samsung Apps, Ovi by Nokia and Vodafone 360 across the world from £5.99.
New features of Picsel Smart Office v1.5
General
* Alternative user interface for tablet devices
* Support for native device buttons (e.g. Android Back button)
Visual Explorer
* Recent documents option - this lists the documents users have accessed before, regardless of where they have been saved
* Thumbnail view for recent documents and templates
* Save As - allows users to rename their documents and resave them into new locations
* Cloud file hosting capabilities - Dropbox has been integrated into Picsel Smart Office to allow users to save files automatically onto the online cloud service, and then these files can be shared by multiple computers. Simply add in a Dropbox username and password, and then when documents are saved into the Dropbox folder on Picsel Smart Office, they will be uploaded to the main Dropbox folder online and visible practically immediately (time taken depends on speed of internet connection to upload the file)
Editing
* Inline editing of text in Word and PowerPoint
* Multi-level Undo and Redo
* Excel Function picker - when you are editing a cell’s formula, Picsel Smart Office will allow you to insert a function from more than 100 options. Other formulae can be entered in manually and the function will be processed the next time the spreadsheet is loaded into Microsoft Office Excel
* Excel Number formatting - this specifies how the value of the cell should be rendered such as a date or very large number
* Manage PowerPoint slides - Click on the Slide Sorter within PowerPoint, and users can now reorder or delete slides. To delete, simply hold down on the slide you want to delete, and select delete from the callout box. To reorder, simply hold down on the slide you want to move, and drag to its new position
For more information:
UK & Europe Media Contact:
Laura Macdonald
picsel@skywritecomms.com
Tel; +44 (0) 207 608 4649
Japan, Korea and US Media Contact:
Zubair Salim
press@picsel.com
Tel: +44 (0) 141 885 5588
About Picsel
Picsel is a dynamic mobile solutions provider, whose pioneering software enables true office mobility, and other rich content enabled solutions. Key stakeholders, such as handset OEMs and Operators, use Picsel’s solutions to deliver vibrant and visually stunning mobile experiences that rival, and often surpass the experience of the desktop PC. For more information, please visit http://www.picsel.com
