iPhone App Spotlight: MobileFiles

1190 days ago in Contributors, iPhone, iPhone App Spotlight by John Fuller | No Comments

MobileMe subscribers will find a glaring omission from the feature set offered by Apple, which pertains to the iDisk. Unlike the other services offered in MobileMe, the iDisk is not easily accessible from the iPhone. While this seems contradictory to the essence of MobileMe, some developers have stepped in to change this. One such developer, QuickOffice, has created MobileFiles for accessing the contents of your iDisk on the go.

There are multiple versions of MobileFiles available in the app store, including a free edition. The free app will allow you to view and download documents from your iDisk. You can also view others’ public iDisk folders, and view multiple iDisk accounts.

Upgrading to the $3.99 MobileFiles 2.0 gives you the additional functionality of emailing documents from your iDisk and iPhone, as well as transferring files by way of the WiFi network, simillar to AirSharing and DataCase.

The ultra, big-daddy edition of MobileFiles is dubbed MobileFiles Pro. Here, you’ll be able to edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, as well as all the other functionality offered by the other two revisions of MobileFiles. Even if you don’t posses a MobileMe account, MobileFiles Pro is a cool app, if you are in need of spreadsheet-editing on the go.

Unfortunately, MobileFiles can not edit Word, Pages, or Numbers documents. Spreadsheet editing is okay, but I find that I need to edit word processing files much more often. It would be nice to see iWork and Microsoft Word editing functionality added in a future release.

All three editions of MobileFiles are offered in the app store from QuickOffice inc.