Recently, Microsoft hogged the limelight by stating that Microsoft Office Suite will be coming for iPhone soon. However, Quickoffice makers stole the show and have release Quickoffice Mobile suite for the iPhone platform. The Quickoffice Mobile Suite for iPhone is now available for $19.99 (Rs. 1,000 approx.) from the Apple App Store. Direct link to the Quickoffice Mobile Suite is here.

Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's Business Division, gave a slight indication about the probability of Microsoft's popular Office Suite making its way onto the iPhone. However, the Quickoffice Mobile Suite including Word, Excel, Email and File integration has already arrived in the mean time. Quickoffice has been around since a decade providing office suite solutions for Symbian, BlackBerry and lately Android platform for mobile phones. The Symbian 60 version of Quickoffice suite which includes Powerpoint editing as well is available at price of $39 (Rs. 1,950 approx.).

Quickoffice suite for iPhone platform supports editing and viewing Word and Excel files from MS Office 97 to Office 2003 including view support for MS Office 2007. While on the Mac side, editing and viewing files from Office v.X from 2004 is supported while MS Office 2008 for Mac files can be viewed. This suite also supports landscape keyboard, text formatting, and over 125 spreadsheet functions advanced formulas.

Apart from that Quickoffice also allows remote access to separate MobileMe iDisk account, transfer of files from Mac/PC via WiFi, file management, and password protection on the files. Also, the most deserved cut-copy-paste feature is also included in the Quickoffice Mobile Suite. Apparently, the Quickoffice guys tweaked their cut-copy-paste functions after Apple showed off Cut-Copy-Paste function in the upcoming iPhone OS 3.0 update.

David Halpin, vice president of Engineer and Product Development, told Macworld that the Quickoffice suite will be updated to use Apple's tools once the 3.0 OS update ships. And after iPhone OS 3.0 update arrives we can expect a future update to bring support for editing MS Office 2007 and MS Office 2008 for Mac files format by default through.

In a way, Quickoffice has earned a lead up the Office suite competition by jumping in ahead of Microsoft and for that matter, even Apple. Microsoft surely would have to bring something different in its Office suite for iPhone apart from price. Not to forget, Office suite applications are also used by individuals apart from enterprises or corporate sector. And hopefully, it doesn't suffer from issues like Apple's iWork '09 files have been crashing on iPhone.

The iPhone platform already had iZoho - the Zoho app for iphone and Google has been offering Google Docs support since first iPhone arrived. Hence, the competition for office productivity applications will now spice up on iPhone platform soon.