iWork for iPhone hands-on

By on May 31, 2011 at 9:31 PM
mobile May 31, 2011

Apple announced that their popular iWork suite of apps are now compatible on iPhone and iPod touch devices a little earlier today, and you know we had to get up close and personal with them. For starters, the apps are full versions of the existing app that ran on the iPad, and even from browsing through the included sample guides in their respective apps and spending a few minutes creating new ones, it’s clear that there’s a level of capability here that just isn’t seen on mobile devices, let alone smartphones. The transition effects in Keynote are nothing short of amazing, and then when you actually take a second to realize this is happening on your mobile phone — it’s just mind-boggling. Apple really just set the bar for what applications on a phone can do. Again. All three apps are now available in the App Store as universal apps which support iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads for $9.99 each.

P.S. One note about Keynote: the app only works in landscape mode, even if you have the portrait orientation locked.

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  • 1eyebandit

    Jonathan Geller is an Apple employee!

    • http://www.facebook.com/applelover Tim Meesseman

      Or he just knows good software when he sees it. Why does everyone who writes something pro-Apple have to be a fanboy or Apple employee?

    • Anonymous

      Haters gonna hate

    • Jeffrey Hughes

      Sour grapes?  Why would one bother reading an article if one has already formed one’s opinion? 

    • Anonymous

      you are so right man!  no one in their right mind would say ANYTHING positive about apple EVEN if it’s true.  You, like me, are a great goofan (aka apple hater!)  we hate apple NO MATTER WHAT and without reason.  We just roll that way baby!

    • Anonymous

      Still waiting for that native Android Google Docs app?

  • Justfinethanku

    This is amazing. Simply put, there is very little you cannot do on iOS.

    I purchased an iPad 2 almost exclusively for iWork and it has VASTLY improved my work life, I’m pretty happy it’s on the iPhone now!!!!!!

  • Tiger_mnt9

    This article is crap. It doesn’t say WHY the software is good….it just throws around a bunch of ‘groundbreaking’ generics and declares that Apple has once again raised the bar. All hail Steve!

  • Dude

    It’s nothing short of amazing how it’s just mind-boggling the way Jonathan sets the bar on how to praise Apple. Again.

    • Bringit

      Another bandwagon posted blasting Jonathan Geller and BGR!  How original!  Just like the Android.

  • Nopeynope

    People stopped using transitions in presentations 10 years ago, I can we stop praising keynote for this feature now? The launcher on my evo has better transitions, but I guess it’s not an iphone so it doesn’t matter.

    • AnonGuy

      No one cares about your shitty Evo.

      Transitions are still used in Presentations.  Crawl out of your hole.

      Any Presentation software worth mentioning supports transitions.

      • http://twitter.com/Avian Avian

        Really? In my academic and professional career I have never once seen transitions or animations beyond ‘appear’ in any powerpoint/keynote presentation. Ever.

      • Batteman87

        Haven’t been to one of mine then :-)

      • AnonGuy

        You are just one person, so who cares what YOU have seen. Transitions are still used. Your personal experiences are a needle in a haystack, and using that as a retort is pretty idiotic.

  • Jcru2001

    May 31st, two thousand and eleven, Magic happened….mobile software was born that would rival Leonardo Da Vinci or Michael Angelo….the greatest software ever to have ever graced this Earth….iWork for iPhone….Scrumtrulescent!

    iWorks for iPhone makes Ghandi look like a child pornographer.

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