Friday, August 30, 2013

Microsoft Launched MS Office App for Android Smartphones


Finally, Microsoft has launched the Office suite Application for Android devices as Office Mobile for Office 365. Now, You can access, view and edit your Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint documents from virtually anywhere. After the launch of Office app for iPhone, Microsoft takes time to release the Office suite for Android users. Already, the One Note is available in the Play store, now the Word, excel suites will give you the full-fledged MS Office experience in your Android Phone.

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You can download this Office app for free, but you should be an Office 365 customer to access the service. You can get the Office 365 subscription for monthly or yearly based on your interest.

Currently, the app only supports Android v 4.0 ICS and newer phones and also you can’t install in tablets for now. Like any other apps, you can install this app in your Android phone. However, you need to sign-in with your office 365 subscriptions details to install this in your phone.

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After the installation the app will give you the access to Word, Excel documents from your phone. You can also get the recent documents from your desktop computers that is stored in the SkyDrive. Office 365 users documents are stored in the cloud, so you can access any office documents from anywhere virtually.

Key Features of Mobile Office 365

Recent Documents : You can access the recent documents that you have viewed in your computer.

Email Attachments: You can edit the office documents that are attached in the Email messages

Great-Looking Documents: Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents look great on your phone, thanks to support for charts, animations, SmartArt Graphics, and shapes.

Optimized for phone :Word, Excel and PowerPoint have been optimized for the small screen of your phone.

Resume Reading: When opening a Word document from SkyDrive or SkyDrive Pro on your phone, it automatically resumes at the place where you left off reading, even if you last viewed the document on your PC or tablet.

Edit Offline: You can edit the documents offline once you get them from cloud. After you have connected to the internet, the changes will be synced in your cloud storage.

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5 Tips to Speed Up Android Phone and Tablet


1. Clean up the App Cache

All Android Apps that will write their data in the App cache memory and use your system resources quite often and will slow down your Android phone. You can avoid this by clearing app cache in the settings of each app. However, if you have many apps, that will take time to clear your App cache manually.

You can use App cache cleaner to remove those files from Android system easily with one click. Here, we have previously written about the Best 5 Apps to Clean & Optimize to Increase the speed of Android Phones. Use those apps to clean app cache , unused files, residual files, search history and uninstalling apps. It can do more than you think.

2. Uninstall the Unused Apps

Apps makes the smartphone even smarter. While having too many apps will kill your system resources, because many apps will run in the background and access the processes always. Many background processes, certainly will slow down your Android Phone. To Fix this problem to get the Speed of Android phone again, you have to uninstall the Unused Apps.

Manage applications option, found under Settings > Applications > Manage applications

Also, you can use the Android Cleaner Apps to uninstall the Apps and their data.

3. Remove the Adwares, Bloatwares and Malwares

Like Windows Operating system, Android is so popular in smartphone Industry. Because of this popular and millions of apps in the Play store, Android is vulnerable to many security threats. The Attractive free apps may have install Adwares and even malwares in your phone.

The annoying adwares will use your valuable system resources to show the irritating ads in the home screen. To remove that you have to secure your Android phone with Mobile Antivirus Apps. Many Free yet best Security and Antivirus Apps are available in Play store. Just install the Android Antivirus apps and remove those craps from your phone.

4. Remove the Unnecessary Widgets

Just install the App launcher for shortcuts and remove those shortcuts. Also, the Widgets too have eaten your memory resources, so try to remove the unnecessary widgets from your Android home screen.

It will give you some amount of space and resources to speed up the Android phone further.

5. Turn off the Wireless data connectivity

Many Internet apps like Gmail, Facebook will always connect with Internet and using your data resources regularly. All that syncing will slow down your system and drain your battery power. Simply turn off the data usage and preserve some resources to gain the performance. Go to Settings >Data usage > Off.


Do you know any other simple tips to increase the speed of Android phones and Tablets? Share here!