Google released a Google Docs app for Android a few months ago letting you view, create, and edit documents in your Docs account from an Android phone or tablet. But it only works when you have an internet connection, since the mobile app is pretty much just the mobile Google Docs website in app form.

But if you’re looking for a mobile app that lets you create notes while you’re offline and then synchronize them with your Google Docs account when you’re back online, NoteSync might fit the bill.

This 99 cent app lets you jot notes on your phone and sync them with Google Docs — or view your Google Docs files on your phone. All you have to do is add the NoteSync label to any documents you want to view on your phone or tablet.

Unfortunately NoteSync is really meant for quick notes only. It doesn’t support spreadsheets or presentations, and won’t preserve rich text formatting in documents imported from your Google account. There’s also no way to italicize, bold, or underline text, use bullet points, or compose notes with any other rich text formatting tools.

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With a slide-out QWERTY keyboard like the one the Palm Pre and Plus hide beneath their shells (or a permanently exposed one in the case of the Pixi) always at the ready, it’s a shame when you want to get productive on a mobile website but can’t.

That’s been the case with Google Docs for some time now, because although iOS and Android users had been granted editing superpowers webOS wasn’t invited to the party. Not until now, anyways. Forum users over at PreCentral have confirmed that they can now edit Google Docs files on their devices — from webOS 2.1 right back to version 1.4.5.

As you can tell from PreCentral’s screen capture, the formatting isn’t quite perfect — with a bit of the entered text spilling beyond the boundaries of the input area. Still it’s better than not being able to make changes at all. Is there anything more frustrating than pulling up a document only to discover you have read-only access?

Ok, there are plenty of things. But for webOS users, this is one more irritation which can finally be sent packing.

Google probably should have launched a Google Docs app for Android about two years ago. The ability to view, edit, create, and collaborate on documents would have been a major selling point, and it seems like a no-brainer for a company with one of the top mobile operating systems and one of the top cloud-based office suites. Better late than never, I guess, because today Google finally got around to launching a native Google Docs app for Android, and the company is making up for tardiness with a few awesome features including the ability to scan text into Google Docs using your phone’s camera.

Google Docs for Android lets existing Google Docs users access all their existing text, spreadsheet, and presentation documents. You can search your Google Documents or filter by items you “own” or starred items, and open files for viewing and editing on your mobile device. You can also upload documents from your phone and share items with anyone in your phone’s contact list.

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Sure, Windows Phone 7 comes with its own suite of mobile office apps, but that isn’t very helpful if you’re a Google Docs user with your spreadsheets, presentations and other documents stored online. But a third party developer by the name of Tasbir Inc has released a free app that lets you view your Google Documents on a WP7 device.

GDocs for Windows Phone 7 won’t let you edit documents yet. But if you need to access your files on the go, the app could come in handy. You can also download files from Google Docs for offline viewing, and there’s even a “Download all” feature that lets you grab every file you have stored in the cloud.

The app encrypts your password and communicates with Google over a secure connections.

GDocs is available as a free download from the Windows Phone Marketplace. If you don’t have a WP7 phone or Zune Desktop software handy, you can find more details at the WP7 applist.

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Google is starting to roll out its Cloud Print service to mobile phones. What that means is that you’ll be able to open an email on your iOS or Android device, choose print from a drop-down menu, and send the message to a printer linked to your account — no USB cables or other wires required. Cloud Print will also support mobile document printing.

Google is bringing the feature first to English speaking users in the United States. Any phone with a browser that supports HTML5 should work, including phones running Android 2.1 and up or Apple devices running iOS 3.x and up.

In order to actually print a message or document, your printer will need to be connected to the Google Cloud Print service. Right now you’ll need a Windows PC with the Google Chrome web browser installed to set things up. If you try to send a print job to a printer that’s not online, the print job will just be queued up to start when your printer is online.

Google Docs is an online office suite that lets you create, edit, and view documents using a web browser. You’ve also been able to view apps in a mobile browser for a while, including text and spreadsheet documents. But while Google Android has supported some basic spreadsheet editing, for the most part you couldn’t change a document from a mobile device… until now.

Over the next few days Google will start rolling out editing support to Android, iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users.

In order to start editing, just visit docs.google.com, open a document, and click the Edit button. Android users will also be able to enter text using Android’s built-in voice recognition feature.

Unfortunately the option doesn’t appear to be available for my account yet, but Google has put out a demo video which you can check out after the break.

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Google Docs is an online office suite that lets you create, edit, view, and collaborate on office documents. You can work on text, spreadsheet, or presentation documents using any computer, and because the whole thing is hosted online, Google makes it easy to share documents with other users or even have multiple people edit a document simultaneously.

You’d think that since Google also has a mobile operating system up its sleeve, the company might have baked some Google Docs functionality into Android. But for the most part you’d be wrong. There’s a mobile version of Google docs which is formatted for phones with small screens and relatively simple browsers, but for the most part you can view documents using this UI, but not edit them.

Currently you can enter data in spreadsheet cells using the mobile version of Google Docs on an Android phone, but the interface is pretty clunky and hard to use. There’s no way to edit Word or other text documents or presentations. And you can’t create files.

Not only does Google say that mobile editing features are on the way, but that users will “soon be able to co-edit files simultaneously,” which sounds pretty awesome — although I’m going to withhold final judgment until we see what kind of editing capabilities Google brings to its mobile interface.

Google says the new mobile editing features won’t just be available on Android, but also on the iPad. It’s not clear if the company is explicitly ruling out the iPhone and iPod touch or just didn’t see fit to mention it in today’s blog post.

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Google has rolled out an updated version of the Google Docs viewer for mobile devices that lets you view DOC, DOCX, PPT, and PDF on most mobile devices running Android, iOS, WebOS, BlackBerry OS, or other mobile operating systems.

The main difference seems to be that files uploaded in those formats now seem to feature better formatting on mobile devices. But you still can’t edit documents in those formats — although you can edit individual cells on spreadsheets using a rather clunky interface.

Honestly, Google’s blog post announcing the new viewer seems to have caused a bit of confusion, with some web sites claiming that Excel spreadsheets aren’t supported (not true), or that these features have been included all along (partially true). But Google is assuring us that something’s new… and I’m not 100% certain that you could view DOCX files last week, so that’s a possibility.

Have you noticed any new functionality in the Google Docs mobile viewer this week?