Friday, September 24, 2010


Access Your Business Documents from Your Android Device

Original post by Christina Warren (mashable.com)
About the author: Christina Warren is a writer, speaker, podcaster and video host. Before joining Mashable, Christina was the assistant lead blogger at Download Squad and The Unofficial Apple Weblog. She has also written for USA Today and for AOL's StyleList Blog. You can hear her dulcet tones on an assortment of podcasts at 5by5.tv. Read More

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Cloud storage and collaboration platform Box.net has just released its Box for Android app to the Android Market.

Like the Box for iPhone and Box for iPad, Box for Android lets users access, share and manage business content on-the-go all from their Android device.

The app works on any Android phone running Android OS 2.0 or later. This includes most of the biggest sellers like the DROID, DROID X, Galaxy S, Nexus One and HTC EVO 4G.

The app is pretty similar to its iPhone and iPad cousina, allowing users to browse files and folders, preview documents, media and web documents and share links to a file or folder via e-mail.


However Box for Android includes the ability to search for files and sort your results directly from the app — a feature the iOS version doesn't currently support. Additionally, because Android has a more visible file system, it's a bit easier to upload files and folders that are already on your Android device directly to Box.net. You can do this in iOS, but it sometimes requires the use of external programs like GoodReader [...]

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