While Air Sharing delivers an elegant and user friendly solution to transfer & view document on all iPhones (both jailbreak & non-jailbreak ones), it’s no longer a free application after two weeks’ promotional offer. Now, it costs USD$6.99 on AppStore. I can say, it worths the money to purchase the application. It’s by far the best application for document transfer & viewing. For many of you, USD$6.99 is just a small amount of money. But, I know, everyone loves free software.
So, for jailbreak iPhone user, you have the privilege to download Docs from Cydia. Docs is an iPhone application that allows you to read various kinds of documents, including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Excel, PDF, text etc. Transferring document from computer to iPhone requires the use of SSH (You can refer to this post about how you can transfer file via SSH). This is less elegant when compared with Air Sharing’s solution, especially for those non-tech users.
It’s pretty much straightforward to use Docs. First, transfer your document to iPhone (put your document under /User) using SSH. After launching Docs, you’ll see the document transferred. Just tap to the file and view it.
Loading of document is pretty fast. However, you can’t view the document in landscape mode, while Air Sharing provides such feature. And, it also lacks syntax highlight when you view source code (such as php). Ignoring all these advanced features come with Air Sharing, Docs is good enough for any Jailbreak iPhone user to view document on iPhone.
Update: For iPhone 2.x, Air Sharing available from App Store is a better application for viewing Doc/Excel/PDF/PPT on iPhone. You may check out the complete review of Air Sharing here.
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$6.99 is really a low price I think, It cost me $49.95 to broght a software called Wondershare PPT to Video (http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/ppt-to-video.html or viewing PowerPoint on iPhone). convert my PowerPoint to MP4 format and then put this video on iPhone.
although this tool can convert PowerPoint to almost all video format, but if I kown this app ealier I can save $43 …
Kala, agree with you. $6.99 is quite a low price, considered the great feature offered by Air Sharing. Docs is also a great free application and an alternative for those who loves free software and want to view document (PDF/Word/Excel/PPT) on iPhone.
i prefer Moyea PowerPoint to Video http://www.dvd-ppt-slideshow.com/ppt-to-video/ ,it can not only convert powerpoint to video formats that iPod supports,but also output flash video formats which Youtube supports,although it costs more,but it deserves!
hi my name is marly ,i have docs working properly on my i phone but the problem is when i see the files on docs their icons are always the black square with the whit question mark in the middle of it ,so my question is why is that happening ,oh by the way i restarted my i phone couple of times to see if this is a solution for this problem but no response.can u help me plzz??