In addition to the freeware editors/viewers afore-mentioned by Dennis, I also found IcWord. Again, it is basic and not quite elegant. In addition, it won’t open large Word files.

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Dennis,

Thanks. Yes; indeed, those alternatives exist. GDocs has been problematic, and TextEdit just too basic. In addition, I have to go online to put GoogleDocs to use. Sigh.

As you pointed out, none of these really cut the mustard, and they are so underwhelming, considering that I am coming from a background of series of Communicators. Feel like tearing my hair out, really!

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Agreed, the lack of Office support is a deal breaker for many. There are a couple of free apps in the market that help somewhat.

TextEdit – Create, edit, open, save plain text documents stored on the file system.

GDocs – OTA import/export and local save of Google Docs files. Supports editing of word processor files as plain text and read only access to other document types

Also you can edit Google Docs spreadsheets and view other document types in the browser at http://docs.google.com/m

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Abubakar, thanks. I’ll have to say bye-bye to Android till the v2.0 OS shows up in devices then. I have too much to do that cannot wait. In the meantime, I’ll go find me a smartphone running Symbian or WinMo, dated or not.

I’ll probably just go back to the trusty Nokia E90, if I don’t find anything else that tickles my fancy enough.

Cheers.

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Yomi,
Dont worry the more elaborate version of android OS, version 2.0 is on its way coming soon and surely it shall contain all those incentives or even more. Sonyericsson itself said it shall wait until the 2.0 android version is ready b4 it start producing its android os phones.So have a little patience android fans.

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