Recent developments of Office applications which run on the Pinephone & on Android

Last Updated on June 21, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

Pinephone

• We have discussed a recent office development for the Pinephone previously:

MS Word 97 & box86/WINE

A new & interesting office application for the Pinephone – MS Word 97 & box86/WINE?

jakfish Pine Adept in the Pine64 forum:

“It’s a bit of a hike to get to the end of compiling and installing, but once done, box86/WINE performs admirably on the PP Community phone/physical keyboard. In xfce (though not in Manjaro Phosh, oddly), LibreOffice has laggy typing, but Word 97, despite its 20-second start-up, has none, and once the program is up, it’s as robust as anything on the PP. All its features function and it works with the phone’s suspend.“

Android

The example SoftMaker Office 2024 for iOS and Android

• SoftMaker has updated recently the apps in his Office suite for Android and iOS.
• The provider is keeping a low profile with exact release notes

“SoftMaker Office 2024 for iOS and Android is intended to offer the full range of functions of a desktop office application.”

• In any case, the spelling checker has been expanded in TextMaker, which now covers over 70 languages

published in heise online IT-News 29.11.2023 by Robert Lippert

https://www.heise.de/news/SoftMaker-Office-2024-kommt-auf-Mobilgeraete-9543771.html

• The most recent development of office application for the Pinephone is MS Word 97 & box86/WINE.
• The most recent development of office application for Android we know is SoftMaker Office 2024 for iOS and Android.

So we can we conclude from this?:

We conclude that the development of office applications is 27 years ahead on Android phones compared to the Pinephone.