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- Quickoffice Advances Android and iPad Applications, Establishes New Partnerships Geared to Mobile Enterprise, in Q4 2011 - Fast-growing productivity software wins industry accolades and ships on latest devices
- New Alfresco Mobile Apps Enable Round-Trip Editing with Quickoffice Integration On iPad - First-ever Mobile Content App to Integrate with Quickoffice HD on iPad
- Quickoffice Executive to Share Expertise in Enterprise Mobile and Cloud Computing Trends at CES 2012
- Quickoffice Rolls Out New Updates to its Mobile Office Suite for Apple iPads for the Holidays - Top-grossing productivity application compatible with iOS 5 offers key usability enhancements
- Quickoffice Enhances Android Mobile Office Application For Improved Productivity on Latest Smartphone and Tablet Devices - Updates bring new user interface, advanced office viewing and editing features, added cloud integration and social publishing
- Quickoffice® Enhances Android, iPad and Symbian Applications, Announces 4 million new registered users in Q3 2011 - Earns accolades as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the US
- Quickoffice Named to Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies - Leading Mobile Office Productivity Company Achieves Three-Year Revenue Growth of 368%, Making First Appearance on Prestigious List
- Quickoffice Enhances its Android Honeycomb Tablet Productivity Application - Quickoffice Pro HD updated to include new performance and usability functions, including the ability to view footnotes and endnotes
- Quickoffice Brings Mobile Office Productivity Application to ASRT Corporation’s Android Tablet - Award-winning software included on new device, enhances professors’ and students’ work on the go
- Quickoffice Advances iPad Mobile Productivity App with New Social Sharing and Publishing Integration - Quickoffice Pro HD for iPad now connects with popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
A journey through mobile history
- 1-5-2012
- Categorized in: General Information, Quickoffice Blog RSS
We recently came across several articles that took a journey, so to speak, through a piece of technology’s history, looking at the evolution of the mobile phone. Did you know that the first mobile call was made on an AT&T car phone in 1946? And that now 85 percent of American adults own a cellphone? This number is only expected to grow.
Just 12 years ago, in 1999, RIM announced the BlackBerry phone. And it looked like this: BlackBerry 850. Only 26 years before that, in 1973, Martin Cooper, previous Motorola vice president, made history by demonstrating a prototype of the first cellphone. And it looked like this(!): Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. Today, one of the sleekest, newest and most popular smartphones available is Apple’s iPhone 4S.
It’s amazing to see how mobile technology has progressed in only 40 years. Mobile phones have created endless opportunities for both consumers and the enterprise. Advanced mobile applications, connected cars and tablet computing devices have sprung from cellphones. The devices and service providers enable everyone to remain connected whenever, wherever, and at a relatively low cost. Not only can you call your family member across the country in a matter of seconds, but also you can connect to the Internet, check your email, edit a document, social network and play a game with a friend in a streamlined fashion.
What’s even more incredible than realizing how far we’ve progressed in such a short time, is to consider where we will be 40 years from today, in 2051. Where will technology take us? How connected will we be then?
Quickoffice, in the beginning, launched on Palm, then on the Symbian platform, which used to run on most Nokia devices. From there, due to market demand and phone manufacturer design, we evolved to developing for BlackBerry phones, then iPhone, Android smartphone, webOS, iPad and finally, the Android tablet. And we’re only continuing to develop and increase the connectedness of our applications.
Were you an early Quickoffice adopter on Palm or Symbian? Have you since changed platforms with Quickoffice? Where do you think the market will be in 40 years?
