"We're happy to announce that we have acquired Quickoffice, a leader in office productivity solutions. Today, consumers, businesses and schools use Google Apps to get stuff done from anywhere, with anyone and on any device. Quickoffice has an established track record of enabling seamless interoperability with popular file formats, and we'll be working on bringing their powerful technology to our Apps product suite." Excellent acquisition - Quickoffice has always been a fine product, and this gives Google instant access to a wide array of native mobile office applications. Crazy nobody else ever picked these guys and girls up. Also, if Google makes Quickoffice available for free, we can enjoy yet another "Google is competing unfairly by not charging customers money for products"-whine-a-thon. That alone is worth it.
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Well, it depends. Small messages are no problem and then I prefer fingers over a stylus. On an iPad longer texts are more doable, although I wouldn't write a novel on one.
QuickOffice is a little bit okay for viewing documents, if they are text files, spreadsheets are less fun, but I wouldn't create or edit them.
For some strange reason despite QuickOffice (and others) being hyper compatible with MS Office files it doesn't take much to edit a document which then suddenly looks very odd in real MS Office.
And now I'm going to try and find my Palm Pro.
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It's not all that bad, some physical keyboards are very nice for what they are. The Motorola Cliq was a turd of a phone, but it had the best keyboard I've ever used on a mobile device. I could type faster on it than anything but a real computer keyboard, and could do so for half an hour without getting fatigued or frustrated.
Some people swear by BlackBerry keyboards too. My hands are a bit big to be really comfortable on them, but compared to portrait QWERTY phones from other manufacturers they are very good.
And Thom, I believe I've seen you praise the WP7 on-screen keyboard more than once. 
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I like typing on my iPhone keyboard just fine. It's not as good as a real keyboard, but it gets the job done, and I'll compose rather long missives on it. Then again, I didn't mind using graffiti on the Palm for long documents either. I don't much care for Blackberry-style physical mini-keyboards, though.
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I love the keyboard on my phone (Xperia Pro), especially when in an SSH session. There's no way I'd ever "upgrade" to a phone without a hardware keyboard.
I'm currently looking at the Motorola Droid 4 as a possible upgrade, as it has the most "normal" keyboard layout (including a number row and proper symbols above the numbers).
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I had QuickOffice on my Palm Vx and Palm T|X. Never actually used it, but then again I don't like typing with a stylus. But who does?