[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] sorci:
I wrote this in 30 minutes after working with all of these 4 applications for the past week. It's not complete nor full. But it certainly give a good perspective. Since I wrote it in 30 minutes and I'm in a hurry now, execuse me for typos or spelling mistakes from fast mind-straight-to-the-keyboard typing. lol.

PhonePlus 2

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PROS:

* Excellent quick one hand 9 dialing mode.

* Integrated with the green button of the phone (BIG BIG plus)

CONS:

* No SMS support (Finger Clix and Extended phone are great)

* No picture of the caller (even though a picture is associated with my PDA2K internal AI app).

* The call hostiry viewer is premitive.

Finger Clix 2

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PROS:

* SMS Support - When you find a contact, you can click on the big SMS button and it automatically opens the WM2003SE built-in SMS apps with the number there. So it's convenient for SMS sending.

* The SMS that is sent is kept in the Sent items of the built in WM messaging app. So everything is logged (because it uses the built in SMS app)

* Good Caller Photo support - Very nice feature is that the program automatically displays (even during the search) the picture of my contact straight from the internal AI app that comes with the PDA2K. Certainly cool feature. You can easily dial someone even when XXXVING as you see his big picture contact right on the screen, you don't even have to read his name.

* Has a dedicated program for creating skins. This is great.

* Nice Call history with easy switching between outgoing, incoming or missed calls.

* When you get a contact with many pgone numbers, you can choose to make a phone number a 'default' for future uses through the default button,

* The vibrate on tap is a nice feature.

* Nice built-in skin chooser (although I didn't find more than 3 skins out there, but i didn't look hard either)

* Has a button called PLUG-IN which supports internal plugins from software already installed on your PPC (for example: Faxing or easily assigning a photo to the contact you've just selected)

CONS:

* BIG BIG drawback is that it doesn't support my PDA2K green phone cutton! Even when in the app, to dial, you still have to use the on screen phone button. This is a pitty.

* I didn't like the fact that switching between ABC and numbers requires 2 presses, one to go to a selection screen and another to select the righ input type method.

* The human engineering is good, but can be better. For example, when I see a contact on the screen already, I would rather prefer to access the plugins button right from the screen and not have to press the contact info button on the left first.

* Clicking to go to the contacts app, only support the built in premitive pocket outlook contact app and does not support programs such as Pocket Informant or Agena Fusion.

Extended Phone 2.50

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PROS:

* Screen displays by default the last call, it's time start/end and duration. Also has 'Hide Call' button to hide it. It also displays the GSM provider you're connected to.

* Easy SMS sending with customizable keyboard for quick entry. BIG SMS buttons make it very easy. Overall very good human engineering here.

* Nice button locks the dialer though not very useful as hardware keys are not locked.

CONS:

* No support for photos (finger clix is great in this regard - that it supports photos from the itnernal pda2k app).

* Does NOT support the green answer button on my PDA2K (BIG DRAWBACK)

IntelliDial

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Not much to say, except that PhonePlus2, FingerClix2 and Extended Phone all beats this program easily. it's worth mentioning the badly designed small window that automatically searches as you tap (the 9method) And of course the plus that it integrates with the green button (actually it is the green button..)

MY OWN CONCLUSION:

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Keep in mind this review isn't thorough or accurate, but it's the way I see it after installing all the apps on my machine and playing around with them for the past several days it's just the say I see it.

All of these apps are far from perfect. It's not like they all have the same features just implemented differently. Each of them has it's own features and unfortunately lacks good features from the others. If one was to take and implement all of these features it would make for the perfect dialer.

As for what is the best app among these 4 ? Well, it depands on which

feature is important to each one of us, so it's very individual. Again, the perfect would be a combination of all of them, but unfortunately it's a dream. My choice so far is the FINGER CLIX 2.0 for the more overall benefits than all other programs I've seen so far.

I would like to hear comments from guys here on what their choice is.

And mostly from people who tried ALL of these applications and not just one of them. They would be able to make a better choice and judgmenet.