Included with you Palm Pre at purchase is a built in Documents View and PDF Viewer which are great but can sometimes be a hassle when opening huge documents. It’s pretty much like a Microsoft Office built into the Pre since you can view PDFs, Powerpoints, Excel spreadsheets, rtf, plaint text files, and word documents. Of course the application will resize the documents accordingly - and you can zoom in and zoom out with ease. You can also search for specific text within the documents application.
You may find some problems with this application if youre running other programs on your pre at the same time. When opening files around 7MB you may see it start to lock up. Of course this will be patched up in the future hopefully. Once developers have gotten their hands on it we’re sure this application will also somehow serve as an Ebook reader…So you can have like an Amazon Kindle but on your Palm Pre
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June 8th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
i cant use my document viewer for .pps are you sure it works for powerpoint?
June 11th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
How do I get the files ( word, excel,etc) into the Palm Pre? I tried to send them as an attachment to an email, with no luck. Help
July 9th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
I cant seem to view .rtf emails either.
August 14th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
I am unable to open .rtf and .tif files. I am really hoping that a solution comes out soon for the pre.
September 20th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
One of the reasons for purchasing the Palm Pre was so that I could actually view schedules sent to my email in a word document (.rtf) format… and it fails miserably. I should have bought an IPhone, but I didn’t want to switch to an AT&T contract. The software engineers need to get their rear ends in gear and put out a fix soon. Until then, all I have is a complicated phone that has a lot of potential… and a few useless and un-deletable applications such as NFL and NASCAR apps that are a waste of space.
October 3rd, 2009 at 3:22 am
I went to the Sprint store yersterday after work hoping to buy either the Palm Pre or the new HTC Touch Pro 2. I am a full time graduagte student who constantly gets word documents from classmates, professors etc and one of my main requests was to have this feature so I could view assignments in word format.
Also the Pre’s keyboard is a little too small. It would be hard for me to easily send a mistake free text if I were rushing. Besides that the Pre had everything else that qualifies it as a great multi featured phone. Too bad it doesnt have a video cam. These are things people want to see. Why go all out and not go ALL OUT??
I ended up getting the Blackberry Tour…I had sworn that I wouldnt get a Blackberry but just playing around with it for 5 hours, so far so go! I can text quickly, can view word docs, ppt, pdf, and its a world phone and has very good reviews. Down side is that it has no WiFi and no touch screen which comes in handy sometimes. But with Sprint, Ive learnt you cant have it all or we wouldnt be buying newer phones right?
October 16th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
It won’t open all txt documents. Sometimes saving as plain ascii txt works, but not always. What is the magic trick for formatting txt files (which are small and plain as can be) so that this program will read them?
November 17th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Too bad the Pre doesn’t live up to the functionality of the Treo.
November 20th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Just convert everything to .doc. I know it sucks but thats the only way I found it would work with this app. Word can read in any .rtf or text file.
Scott
January 3rd, 2010 at 2:16 pm
palm pre does have a video camcorder. Check out precentral.net
June 1st, 2010 at 8:43 pm
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