iZoho - Zoho for iPhone
Raju Vegesna June 28, 2007 11: 00 am
…or should I say ‘Office for your iPhone‘. This is fun project going live in record time (thanks to our APIs and of course our team).
iZoho (no, its not an online desktop :)) is an easier way to access your Zoho Apps on your Mobile…atleast, iPhone for now. Sure, you can use Zoho Apps in their current form on your iPhone, but there is lot of stuff you don’t need on your mobile phone. So we simplified the interface and just provided simple features you’d normally use on a mobile phone.
We have three applications available currently in iZoho - Zoho Writer, Sheet and Show which lets you view your documents, spreadsheets and presentations in Zoho. Currently you can view and edit your documents, but you cannot edit your spreadsheets and presentations (you can only view them). You can also create new documents and view your presentations in landscape mode. There will be more features coming as we move along.
Frankly, we don’t know how this will work on iPhone as we haven’t tested it. It certainly works well on Safari so we hope it’ll be a non-issue. In any case, we will be fine tuning this over the next few days.
As I mentioned earlier, a device with a big screen, built in Wi-Fi, good usability and a full fledged browser will only improve the chances of practically using web apps on a mobile device.
Do give it a try and let us know what you think (support at zoho.com). Below are some screenshots.
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Wow! If I had an iPhone, I would definitely use that…
I guess that solves the problem of an officesuite for the iPhone!
Great work, Zoho
Dont you think the buttons on the toolbars will be a little too small for the iPhones screen?
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Shame it doesn’t work with the S60 browser (Nokia N95 etc.) since that’s also based on WebKit.
Thanks for your comments Ioannus.
Jamie: We need to test it on an iPhone. Based on the experience, we will make necessary changes. The aim is to make the document viewing/editing experience simple.
RS: Did you test it with N95? None of us here have it so we could’nt test it. It’ll useful if you can share your experience.
Very, very, very cool. I don’t have an iPhone, but you’re making we want one. Would love to see Zoho Wiki on there.
As usual, ZOHO is ahead of the curve. Raju, looking at the screenshot of the Zoho writer, it looks like that the font size very very tiny and maybe you are trying to cram lot of stuff on the small screen. A fewer bigger buttons and bigger readable font size may be the way to go.
What about Google office suite? Hmmm… I haven’t heard anything regarding availability on iPhone. Looks like Zoho is clearly thinking fast and cleary ahead of the game.
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I tested it with the Nokia webkit browser in Nokia E65 and also with Opera Mini 4 Beta. Did not work. Whichever link I selected, it kept coming back to the initial screen. Hope you guys will fix it. Try testing with any Nokia S60 3rd ed. phone,
I also have a thread up on the howardforums.com forum on s60 3rd ed. to see if others had compatibility issue with S60 Nokia browser.
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1189621&referrerid=658204
It really looks good though and it will be great if this works also in Nokia browser.
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David: You’ll see other Zoho Apps as we move along.
Vic: Thanks for stopping by and your comments. We will optimize it after we play with it. Currently, we removed some stuff to keep it clean. Again, we think iPhone’s browser zoom functionality will let you read the font etc. We’ll optimize it.
AE: Thanks for your feedback. Yes, we will support S60. The issue could be due to redirection in S60. When you click on an app in izoho, we redirect you to mini.zoho.com which might be causing the issue. We will fix this soon.
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iZoho doesn’t solve the problem of editing and sending MS Office docs as e-mail attachments on the iPhone. I can do that on my Treo, now.
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Regarding your e-mail PR (TechMarket.com) blitz: Why should anyone expect to receive an answer about any questions they have about iZoho? It just doesn’t happen when you can’t back up your product.
How many people do you expect to con in this manner? Is this a real company?
It doesn’t work on the Nokia 770 / Opera 8.5. I get the login screen, and I can type my login information, but it never finishes signing in.
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Doesn’t work. You can’t enter text into the document on iPhone. I think this is an iPhone bug, not Zoho’s error.
Thanks Stephen. Yes, I noticed that the iPhone’s keyboard doesn’t work with WYSIWYG Editors. We will come up with an alternative here. I’ll do a follow up post.
I’m having the same problem as Stephen, I can’t type anything into the document. Looks cool though, I’ll check back in a few weeks.
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I just tried to create an account via izoho from my Mac (not the iPhone) and it kept telling me I needed to enter the correct text from the image. Well I was.
I went to the main Zoho page and was able to setup an account there.
Scotty:
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I have the same problem as Derek, not working on Opera 8.5 on the Nokia 770. Sign in just keeps going and going and going….
igotnotime:
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I have an iphone, but when I try and edit documents on in iZoho on it, nothing happens. I click on edit and nothing changes. i try clicking in the body of the document, and still nothing changes. I expect the keyboard to pop up - am I missing something?
Jay:
Editing doesnt work as this is a limitation with the soft keyboard in iPhone (and other phones with similar keyboard). We are trying to come up with a work around.
Any word on the opera support? I would love to use this in a mobile setting with the Nokia tablet. Is this something you are hoping to begin testing in the near future or no plans for it or work on it hasn’t started yet?
Not being pushy, just a big fan of your work thus far and curious.
Would it be possible to get an “E-Mail Document” option for the Zoho Writer?
i can’t type in the zoho writer on my iphone. i think it’s a great idea but it’s not working for me. keep improving it cuz i’ll definitely use it when it’s perfected.
igotnotime:
We dont have Opera support yet. We didnt start any work and will keep you informed if there is any progress here.
Drea: This is a good requirement. We will take it up. We have this functionality, but I guess we have to simplify it.
Snoop: Editing doesn’t work as iPhone doesn’t bring up the keyboard for WYSIWYG editors. This is a generic limitation of all phone with a software based keyboard.
You say at the top of the page that in iZOHO you can edit and read documents, from what I can tell the point of iZoHo is the iPhone (iPod Touch) but it wont let you type.
I think the buttons on the toolbars are small for a touch screen.
My friend has an iPhone and seems to be having similar problems with the touch screen. They really should do something about the toolbars and keyboard.
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What can i do if i want to increase the buttons size?
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I can’t wait for the next updates. Keep up the fantastic work!
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