Today, Zoho went live with iZoho, which provides iPhone-optimized access to Zoho’s online office applications. iPhone users who visit www.izoho.com can easily view Zoho Writer documents, Zoho Sheet spreadsheets, and Zoho Show presentations - and edit Zoho Writer documents - from the Safari browser. More features are on the way.

iPhone users can also access their Zoho documents at www.zoho.com. However, Zoho optimized the iZoho interface to support mobile access and iPhone’s touch screen, e.g., simpliefied menus and sliding pages. 

“iZoho is not an online desktop like iGoogle. iZoho is a virtual office accessible from your iPhone. It’s Zoho, but optimized for iPhone users,” said Raju Vegesna, Zoho evangelist. “We think iPhone users will prefer iZoho’s streamlined interface. The standard Zoho interface has a lot of features they don’t need. But, if they prefer the complete Zoho feature set, iPhone users can forgo iZoho and work online at zoho.com.”

Zoho anticipates that the iPhone - with its big screen, built in Wi-Fi, good usability, and full-fledged browser - will only improve the use of web applications on mobile devices.

Vegesna concluded, “Our customers should be able to access Zoho documents as quickly and as easily as possible, no matter where they are. iZoho began as a fun project driven by user requests. We plan to increase the fun and further develop iZoho to provide better online office collaboration applications for mobile users in general.”