Glide Mobile – an online file sharing and transcoding service – announced today that it now enables Apple iPhone users to view, edit, format and share MS Word documents from their iPhone.

It also allows you to export documents you create in its online word processor app in some very useful formats – .doc, .pdf, and .rtf – and email these docs to yourself or others using its in-built webmail client.

These are very handy features on an (still jailed / not hacked) iPhone right now.

Another useful Glide feature is its ability to upload and share media files.

I’ve been playing around with Glide a little today and finding it pretty useful, even over an Edge connection much of the time I was just starting out with it and creating a couple of test documents.

You can upload to / download from Glide – it offers up to 2gb of free storage when you register at the basic, free level of sign-up. And its got handy sections for music, video, and photos – so that you can quickly throw stuff into the right place, without even creating any folders yourself.

So it was very quick and easy to upload some songs to it, browse for them by album art, and play them – it even offers a choice to play on Edge, or play on WiFi.

You can also share your media or any of your files that you store on Glide.  In order to do this, you’ve got to create (or import) contacts into Glide.

On a desktop browser, its Write applet for word processing is easy and quick to work with and offers a pretty standard set of features for working with your documents – formatting, spell checking, printing, and sharing them.

On the iPhone you can work with Word and other documents and even add some formatting – bold, italics and so on. It’s not that easy – you have to use tags to achieve it – but it’s the only Word doc formatting game in town for iPhone right now I believe, so I’ll take it.

It looks as if Glide wants to get you living within its portal as far as possible – as in, it either offers now or touts as ‘Coming Soon’ a very broad range of things you can do from within Glide. You can see this in the range of icons presented on its home screen at the top of this post – everything from a Chat applet, to adding media, editing photos, and even blogging from within it.

For now, I haven’t got a burning desire to use all, or even most of those areas of Glide – but I suppose it’s nice to know they’re there, and if they are all well implemented then it could become hugely useful.

I do think I’ll keep playing with its document viewing / editing as well as its media handling abilities though.

One thing that doesn’t knock your socks off in terms of iPhone experience right now: its screens are not optimized for iPhone at all as yet – the login button and many elements are at tiny size upon first hitting a page. And its editing screens are tough to navigate around. You have to work within an Edit area that’s only a small portion of the screen, and it makes it difficult to get to a specific section of text you want to work with.

Glide looks pretty interesting for several purposes right now. Check it out at:

Glide Home

Via: Mobility Site

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