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"While television commercials for the iPad highlight all the fun you can have with it--watching HD movies, reading books, and playing games--Apple reminds us you can also use it to get work done."

And to prove it, the folks over at Laptop Magazine have put several productivity suites through their paces. They reviewed iWork for iPad, Dataviz and Quickoffice to see just how well they work on the iPad. Surprisingly, to me at least, iWork was the only one that didn't sync with Google Docs. As prolific as that is, I would think they would have added that functionality to their product. But if that isn't important to you, it has other benefits and you can read all about it in the reviews for each one, just click on the links for each one above.

"There may be rumors flying around an official Microsoft Office for the iPhone, but here's a fact: Quickoffice, the venerable, Office-compatible suite for handhelds, has submitted its iPhone version to Apple for approval. (I first wrote about it back in September.) The company expects for the suite to show up in the App Store by mid-April or so, which should make it the first full-blown suite for iPhones."

I don't know if I'd ever really use it, but I'm still looking forward to it. It would be nice to be able to make an occasional Word doc or Excel sheet on the go. QuickOffice was always an immediate install on every Palm device I ever owned, so I have full faith that this version will be every bit as good; those folks know what they're doing.

Anyone else longing for menial doc work on their phone?