Softalk announced its release of the first spreadsheet application for the iPhone (News - Alert).

 

The product named "Spreadsheet", features over 50 functions with the ability to email spreadsheets created on the iPhone to a mailbox for subsequent opening in Microsoft (News - Alert) Excel 2003.

 

Spreadsheet is available for immediate purchase at $7.99 from the Apple (News - Alert) App Store.

Spreadsheet is a professional tool for creating spreadsheets on the iPhone and iPod Touch. It provides a scrollable zoomable view, along with cell formatting features and a host of standard spreadsheet functions.

 

Additional features include multiple cell types which include numeric, date, time, currency, percentage and text. Cell formatting options, Copy/cut/paste operations and other range of functions including date/time, math, statistical, string and trigonometric functions are the other highlights.

 

Softalk CEO Simon Bates said in a statement, "The iPhone's popularity is growing rapidly as a business tool, particularly since iPhone 2.0 introduced Exchange compatibility but up until now it has desperately lacked a spreadsheet application. We are glad to have been the first to have filled that gap."

 

Softalk is planning to introduce its next version of Share Server (v1.3.2), which enables to access public folders and shared folders while working offline in Outlook. It provides a range of messaging and collaboration software solutions specifically designed to benefit small to medium size businesses and organizations. It was set up in 1993 and is a privately held company headquartered in Maidenhead in the UK.