The new OneNote Mobile for Android application is in most ways similar to OneNote Mobile for iPhone (see ' OneNote Mobile for iPhone: OneNote Mobile Goes Multi-platform') and OneNote Mobile for Windows Phone (see ' The True Gem of Windows Phone 7'). The rest of this article provides an overview of the new OneNote Mobile for Android client, highlights some limitations, and concludes with some general projections about what might happen next in the rapidly expanding competition between OneNote and Evernote. In the past, given the intense competitive landscape between Microsoft and Google, searching for 'Microsoft' and 'Android' together was likely to mostly return results about legal actions and patent licensing agreements, so it's great to see Microsoft responding to customer requests from people who want to use OneNote on their Android devices. It's also a timely competitive move because Microsoft was previously at risk of losing OneNote customers who use OneNote on PCs, but also use Android smartphones, to Evernote.

It is free when used for creating up to 500 notes (and also free for reading an unlimited number of notes), and costs $4.99 for an unlimited note authoring license.Ĭonsidering the significant Android smartphone market momentum, adding Android support to the list of OneNote client platforms is a laudable response to OneNote customer demand. The application is available in a wide variety of global regions (see the OneNote Blog introductory post for a list of supported international regions). It can also run on Android tablets, but has not been tested on or optimized for Android tablet devices. Microsoft pleasantly surprised a lot of OneNote fans in early February 2012, when it announced and released OneNote Mobile for Android, a version of OneNote Mobile available for Android smartphones (running Android 2.3 or later).

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