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PocketCM v0.21 is here ladies and gentlemen!

Size: 574 KB

Type: Freeware

Requirements:

• Windows Mobile 5.0 / WM6

Author: Quentin Pouplard

Home: http://www.pocketcm.com/index.php

PLEASE VISIT THE AUTHOR'S SITE ABOVE FOR DOWNLOAD OF THIS GREAT UPDATED FILE! I HAVE INCLUDED SCREENSHOTS OF THIS PROGRAM BELOW FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE!

Description:

PocketCM is a finger friendly contact application for PDA phone, it will allow you to scroll to you list of contacts, call them and edit them.

Actually it's the rewrite in native of ContactManager, a .NET version of a finger friendly contact.

Are you using a VGA device? You'll need to download and install a VGA theme here.

If you are using a device with a 240px square screen, you'll need the a theme that support this screen size.

What's different from other contact application:

It can be used with fingers, no need to get your stylus. Finding contact with your finger is really easy, it's different than other software: if you press you finger on the left or right border of the screen it will allow you to select the letter you're searching for, release the finger, it will show you the contact starting with this letter. Why does it work? Human being cannot point directly to the right letter on a small screen, however human are very precise while moving their finger. So you press the screen, see the feedback, adjust the position to the right letter... and you're done!

It's animated: the list scroll with your finger in a natural movement, the transition between contact detail and contact list are animated.

You can set contact as favorites, they will appear in the favorite list, perfect to get a quicklist of contacts under the finger.

You can edit your contact picture from the software, simply tap on the contact picture.

You can customize about everything by changing the setting.ini: color, font, background image, etc...

From ContactManager here's what's new/modified:

- Native version: this version doesn't use .NET compact framework, it's written in C++.

- Faster version: I've put some time improving performance, on my device, it goes quite well, tell me about you.

- Faster display: drawing is also optimized, however, it may have some issue for advanced theming, tell me about it.

- New fade effect while calling/edit conact/set picture, this offer a better transition between application, tell me what you think.

- Contact update if added/changed/deleted from other application (including activesync).

- Memory footprint: No more .NET crap, picture of contact should also take less memory.

- Ability to remove contact picture.

- Edit contact now goes to edit page directly.

- New contact now goes to edit page directly.

- New theme packaging (a theme in one file instead of many).

- Letter bar between contact.

- New setting for non latin alphabet (coming with localization but now it's technically possible).

- SMS conversation panel: hitting SMS button now goes to an SMS page. It will allow to send an SMS display previous conversation with this contact...

Installation instruction:

- Create a new folder on your device.

- Unzip the content of the zip.

- Launch PocketCM.exe.

Note:

To close PocketCM Contacts, press for 250 ms to phone button at the bottom right of the screen. To minimize PocketCM Contacts, tap in the upper right corner.

To send SMS using PocketCM Contact, you have to hold the send button for at least 250 ms. It's a feature (that will be enhanced in future version) to avoid accidentaly send of messages.

Update Description:

v0.21 (26-04-2008):

- New icon for contact with unread SMS or unseen missed call.

- Last unread SMS is shown instead of contact number in contact list.

- PocketCM Contact now handle phone call history: contact with new call are sorted first in SMS contact list.

- Rewritten code to handle SMS, should use less memory, and be a lot faster.

- Faster reading of SMS/phone history, startup time should be better.

- Text box now capitalize the first letter.

- Adding contact from SMS/phone history now update the contact correctly in the list.

- Some tweak in the default theme to make some part more visible, and avoid menu to popup when minimizing.

- Performance enhancement.

- Bug fixes & Memory leak fixes.

v0.20b (17-02-2008):

- Fixed switch to landscape bug.

- Greatly enhanced performance in some scenarios.

v0.20 (17-02-2008):

- Category edit in contact.

- Backspace button on phonepads.

- New theme option in order to allow clean bubble.

- Preloading of some image to allow smoother use.

- Added menu to all panel, you can now choose the SIP while editing note or contact.

- Performance enhancement.

- Bug fixes.

v0.19b (20-01-2008):

- Added a button near company/city edit field to select value from existing contacts.

- Tweaking and fix in the theme.

- Bug fixes (DWORD alignment on blt, and alpha blt, clipping bugs, update contact detail after edit, ...).

- Fixed a bug that cause cached to not be recreated correctly.

- Fixed a bug that cause some image to be stretched instead of blitted, you should see a huge performance improvment in some theme.

v0.19 (20-01-2008):

- New theme: Dream using the new feature of 0.19.

- Rewritten alpha blending algorithm: faster, allow theme with alpha.

- New add contact feature: type the number on the phonepad, and call/add directly.

- Finger friendly contact edit/new contact screen.

- Bug fixes.

- 0.19 theme are different than previous theme, so you need a 0.19 in order to run it.

- ...more.

v0.18 (01-01-2008):

- New default theme for the new branch: Touch (looks familiar?).

- Rewritten animation: transition should be a lot smoother (from 10 fps to 30 fps or more).

- Rewritten fade out effect, fade to black is smooth now.

- Rewritten new alpha fade effect for option.

- New animation for setting favorite/removing picture.

- Added option for "show contact without phone" in options panel.

- Lot of performance tweak.

- Bug fixes (fullscreen mode, label.contactlist.header.text, set contact picture, delete conversation).