3. Email: Attachments And Documents

Want to read Office documents and PDFs that you copy from your PC or receive in email? Windows Mobile smartphones don't have the Office Mobile tools you get on Windows Mobile Pocket PC phones - where you can create and edit Word and Excel documents and view PowerPoint presentations - but Westtek's ClearVue range lets you view Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF documents. If you buy OneNote you get OneNote Mobile for taking notes on the move; the 2007 version lets you photograph business cards to OCR automatically on your PC. If you want to make changes, DataViz Documents To Go can create and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, and view PDFs on Windows Mobile smartphones.

OneNote Mobile isn't anywhere near as powerful as the Windows app - but you'll always have it with you.

Documents To Go for Symbian UIQ doesn't include the PDF viewer (and the Series 80 viewer drops PowerPoint). The free Adobe PDF viewer only runs on a handful of Nokia Series 80 phones, but the PDF+ PDF viewer is available for Symbian Series 60, 80 and UIQ phones. QuickOffice offers editing of Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on Series 60 and UIQ Symbian phones. MobiSystems Office Suite is a free Series 60 document viewer for Word, RTF and Excel documents, with a pay-for version if you want to edit files.

Documents To Go only previews PDFs on Windows Mobile, but you can edit Office documents on Symbian and Windows Mobile smartphones.

RIM includes a viewer for PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint on most BlackBerry devices, although it strips out nearly all the formatting for faster downloads. If you want to edit documents, eOffice edits Word and Excel files and previews PowerPoint and PDF on BlackBerry. And Repligo has a subscription service where you can store documents, as well as viewing Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF and ZIP files on your BlackBerry.

Most document viewers let you edit Word and Excel files but only preview PowerPoints - which are hard to edit on a small screen anyway.

You're more likely to be viewing a document on a smartphone than editing it - but how about presenting it? PSILOC Wireless Presenter turns your Series 60 smartphone into a remote control for PowerPoint on your laptop (via Bluetooth), so you can see your notes and click through your slides. PSILOC has utilities to use your phone as a wireless mouse and a remote control for your TV as well. Sailing Clicker turns a Windows Mobile or Symbian smartphone into a remote control for PowerPoint, iTunes, Windows Media Player and similar applications, on Windows and Mac; it can even pause the music automatically if you get a phone call. With Novii Remote (for Symbian and Windows Mobile) your smartphone can control your TV, hi-fi, Tivo and around 700 other home entertainment devices.

Turn your phone into a remote control for iTunes and PowerPoint with Sailing Clicker; other software lets you control TV and hi-fi systems too.