The Ninja is a fan of the ever-growing range of Google products, so much so that I’m looking at how easy it might be to transition to a Google based future for activities such as e-mail, calendars, documents etc. through the power of Google Docs – or as a part of Apps for Business as they call it.
Google Docs for Android now brings the functionality of this cloud-based software to the Android OS and it is impressive.
It has all the features you might expect, albeit stripped down to the basics for mobile use but also has a few surprises up its sleeve. You can even create a document from a photograph where you take a picture of an item of text, such as a sheet of printed paper, and it converts it to text and inserts that text in a new document. Very handy for clipping newspaper articles etc. as it’s like having your own photocopier and scanner in your pocket. Very cool!
Although the software is basic and clearly a version 1.0, it can only get better and with the future of computing clearly mobile, it may well play a strong part and help ensure that Google remains the number one choice in this field.
