14 DAY TRIAL // South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung announced recently the first handset in the world powered by its new bada operating system, the Samsung Wave, and now we learn that the device marks another industry first. According to Picsel UK Ltd., a leading provider of business productivity applications, the Samsung Wave is the first handset in the world to include the latest version of Picsel File Viewer.
Among the features of the Picsel File Viewer, we can count support for Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and Power Point), Adobe PDF, Text and Images. At the same time, the software solution comes with Picsel’s signature Zoom and Pan Interface, which is meant to encourage users to engage with more content on the mobile phones' smaller screens.
The list of new features added to Picsel File Viewer includes: - Multiple page views - allowing more than one page to be displayed on screen at any one time, aiding more coherent and informative document navigation. - Continuous page scrolling – enabling inertia for faster navigation through documents. - Faster panning and zooming – improved response times for both panning and zooming to enable faster page navigation. - Higher quality screen update – continuous high quality page rendering, nullifying requirement for fuzzy redraw while users navigate the page. The software solution is expected to deliver great functionality to the device, enhancing the experience the bada OS can provide through leveraging the class leading processing capabilities and screen quality of Samsung Wave. The Picsel File Viewer, in case there are some of you who are not accustomed with it, is one of the most popular business productivity applications on the market today, and its maker says that more than 280 million software units all around the world already include it.
Mr Imran Khand, Picsel’s chief executive officer, said, “We are happy to have supported Samsung in their effort to deliver what we believe to be a market changing product. We are driven to expand the boundaries of what can be achieved on a mobile device, and this extension to Picsel File Viewer’s capability is a clear indication of our intent to re-energise the business productivity market place.”