Following up on my post from last week, I had hoped that DataViz would be announcing the availability of Documents to Go for the iPhone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. After all, DataViz did start working on this app a year ago. Unfortunately, according to the Italian website Macitynet.it, DataViz is only showing off a very early prototype.
The app is supposed to eventually allow you to edit Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on an iPhone, but the beta version shown this week could only handle Word files. It apparently does have copy-and-paste, plus you can e-mail an edited Word file to someone. The post on Macitynet has a number of photos of the current beta version of the app, and for those of you who (like me) don't read Italian, you can click here for a Google translated version of that website.
I haven't seen any update on when this product might be available, nor have I seen any other coverage of what DataViz is showing off right now other than the post on that Italian website.
UPDATE on 2/19/09: More information is starting to appear on the Internet. The iPhone Blog has more information on and pictures of the beta version of this app, including information on how the app accomplishes copy-and-paste -- a feature that many of us are waiting for Apple to implement on the iPhone. And iPhone Alley has a few more details, including news that when the app is first released, it will be able to edit Word documents but probably not Excel spreadsheets. That site also says that the app is due to be released sometime between April and June of this year.