Apple goes to iWork for iPhone and iPod Touch at last

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Wednesday, 01 June 2011 02:48

Your IT - Mobility

Apple's mobile iWork office suite (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) has been available for the iPad from the start, and now it has finally come to the iPhone and iPod Touch, specially tweaked for smaller screens.

With Apple first announcing some of what it will be announcing on June 6 at its WWDC event, it has now come out and announced something more: the availability of Pages, Numbers and Keynote for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Available for AUD $12.99 each, and available to iPad users as a free update for their iPhones and iPod Touches (presumably on the same iTunes account as it would have to be.)

Apple's senior veep of worldwide product marketing, Phil Schiller, said: 'Now you can use Keynote, Pages and Numbers on iPhone and iPod touch to create amazing presentations, documents and spreadsheets right in the palm of your hand.

'The incredible Retina display, revolutionary Multi-Touch interface and our powerful software make it easy to create, edit, organise and share all of your documents from iPhone 4 or iPod touch.'

As with the original and then updated iPad versions, Apple's iWork apps work with the Mac version of the iWork apps, and with Microsoft Office. AirPrinting is available when using an AirPrint compatible printer, and as you'd expect, Apple reminds us of its 'beautiful Apple-designed themes and templates'.

Apple also notes that 'all iWork apps now include improved document management with thumbnail images that let you find your files quickly, organise them and group them into folders using intuitive gestures. From the Tools button in the toolbar, you can easily share any presentation, document or spreadsheet without leaving the app.'

So, what about the apps themselves? What's new in the iWork zoo? Please read on to page two'¦