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On the Road Again: Taking Your Work with You on Your Phone
In This Chapter
Using Mobile Office applications
Navigating the Office applications in the cloud
Sharing files using your phone
When you pick up your Galaxy S 4 phone, you are holding as much computing power as was available in a high-end laptop five years ago and a graphics processor that would have made a hard-core gamer envious. So it’s not far-fetched to want to work on your Microsoft Office applications, which are relatively modest users of computing power, on your Galaxy S 4 while you are away from your desk. Sure. Why not?
The Galaxy S 4 phone actually doesn’t allow you to leave your computer behind for good, for a few reasons. The most basic is that the sizes of the screen and the keyboard aren’t conducive for writing novels and other similarly long documents. What makes the most sense is to use your phone to view Office documents and make minor changes, but to leave the hard-core creation and modification efforts to a full-sized PC.
The Polaris Office 5 Suite comes on your phone to let you be productive on the ...
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