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aTAKEphONE released

Tried this app on 30 day trial and although I wanted to like it I found it had one major problem for me. I have about 700 contacts with many of them being based in London. The telephone code for London is 0208, and when I wanted to dial a number NOT in my contacts that started with the 0208 London code I found the app stalled to the point of it being quite un usable. I would say about a 5 second delay. Perhaps I could stop this in Settings, but I couldn't find anything. It's a shame because for me I could have made good use of it.

EDIT: sorted it out. Search preferences/search numbers set to never works

Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk
 
TAKEphONE said:
Should be working (the trial)

http://www.shsh.com/products/tkphand123_004_shsh.apk
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Okay... different link from the first post of the thread... makes sense since I didn't realize when I first started reading this thread that the original post was months ago! lol I have installed the trial and will be fully checking it out... by the looks of it, I will probably be buying TWO copies... myself AND my wife... thanks for the updated link!

Randy... aka THE Village Idiot!
 
Lyrrad said:
Tried this app on 30 day trial and although I wanted to like it I found it had one major problem for me. I have about 700 contacts with many of them being based in London. The telephone code for London is 0208, and when I wanted to dial a number NOT in my contacts that started with the 0208 London code I found the app stalled to the point of it being quite un usable. I would say about a 5 second delay. Perhaps I could stop this in Settings, but I couldn't find anything. It's a shame because for me I could have made good use of it.

EDIT: sorted it out. Search preferences/search numbers set to never works

Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk
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Hi,

That's a very good point you are raising.

Will have to think of a solution for this scenario.

Maybe an option to raise the "start number lookup" to more than 4 ?

Or I may add an option "Search numbers" -> "Manually": when there are no matches, I display three options in the search results list - SMS, Make new contact, add to existing.

I can add a 4th option - "Search for number"

What do you think ?
 
VillageIdiot6710 said:
Okay... different link from the first post of the thread... makes sense since I didn't realize when I first started reading this thread that the original post was months ago! lol I have installed the trial and will be fully checking it out... by the looks of it, I will probably be buying TWO copies... myself AND my wife... thanks for the updated link!

Randy... aka THE Village Idiot!
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Hi,

Well - actually this is my bad - should have created a fixed link for download.

Thanks for the vote of confidence !
 
TAKEphONE said:
Hi,

That's a very good point you are raising.

Will have to think of a solution for this scenario.

Maybe an option to raise the "start number lookup" to more than 4 ?

Or I may add an option "Search numbers" -> "Manually": when there are no matches, I display three options in the search results list - SMS, Make new contact, add to existing.

I can add a 4th option - "Search for number"

What do you think ?
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I've got over my issue as stated in my original post.

Consrtuctive feedback from me.

It still is not a smooth to use as stock Desire phonepad, but it's about 80-90%

Ditch the 'Enter a name or number Tap here. It's a waste.

I'm using ADW with contact widget, and that combination is a step in the wrong direction from the now unusable sense HTC people widget.

Again a step in the wrong direction (from an eye candy point of view only) is the favourites above the dialer on your app. However it were possible to enlarge them to show 2 rows of 4 (making use of space reclaimed from 'Enter a name or number Tap here'). Then the 8 photos to view would be bigger. At present the photos are just too small.

Also to my mind, another thought would be when search empty show (both last call and i-Bar) would be better if it was (scrollable call log above and i-Bar)

I hope you take this post in the spirit it was posted. I think your app very useful, and I'm sure I'll pay the reasonable
 
Hi,

Let me try to sum up:

You're suggesting I add to the "When search empty" options:

- Option to hide the top line (to allocate more space).
- Option to display the call log (with or without the i-Bar).
- Option to show a bigger i-Bar (2x4).

Is that right ?
 
TAKEphONE said:
Hi,

Let me try to sum up:

You're suggesting I add to the "When search empty" options:

- Option to hide the top line (to allocate more space).
- Option to display the call log (with or without the i-Bar).
- Option to show a bigger i-Bar (2x4).

Is that right ?
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My suggestionis as follows:

I would just ditch the top line. I don't know what purpose it serves, sure the 3 pop up tips menus will be used by a new user for a short time, however when I press MENU/HELP the same 3 tips are availe to me anyway.

EDIT: To be fair your top line area does give balance to the overall look of the app, but it's functionabilty is limited to say the least.

Now to make use of the extra space.

How about option(s)

i-Bar with (1x4) together with scrollable call log

or

i-Bar with (2 x 4) with last number to view.

If you look at contacts widget (1 x 4) it may help you.
Contacts! Widget v2.42 Application for Android | Tools


I use contact widget (4x1) and have 2 of them. Obviously if you can incoporate 2 lots of (1 x 4) widgets into your app it will give users the option.

I understand that if you were to have 4 photos in the i-bar then there height needs to change too to keep the same aspect, and that 2 x 4 may just take up too much room. However the size of the photos now make them a little unusable, and certainly not nice eye candy.

Of course these are just my thoughts, and would be nice for me. As a developer you need to ensure your not just going off on a tangent for one user (me) that's gonna line your pockets with a hefty
 
Nice app. One thing I noticed is it is not showing contact pics for contacts that are synced with facebook.
 
othgar said:
Nice app. One thing I noticed is it is not showing contact pics for contacts that are synced with facebook.
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Hi,

Thanks.

Afraid this is a limitation of all 3rd party apps - according to Facebook privacy constrictions, Google does not allow 3rd party apps to get contact facebook photos.
 
Lyrrad said:
My suggestionis as follows:

I would just ditch the top line. I don't know what purpose it serves, sure the 3 pop up tips menus will be used by a new user for a short time, however when I press MENU/HELP the same 3 tips are availe to me anyway.

EDIT: To be fair your top line area does give balance to the overall look of the app, but it's functionabilty is limited to say the least.

Now to make use of the extra space.

How about option(s)

i-Bar with (1x4) together with scrollable call log

or

i-Bar with (2 x 4) with last number to view.

If you look at contacts widget (1 x 4) it may help you.
Contacts! Widget v2.42 Application for Android | Tools


I use contact widget (4x1) and have 2 of them. Obviously if you can incoporate 2 lots of (1 x 4) widgets into your app it will give users the option.

I understand that if you were to have 4 photos in the i-bar then there height needs to change too to keep the same aspect, and that 2 x 4 may just take up too much room. However the size of the photos now make them a little unusable, and certainly not nice eye candy.

Of course these are just my thoughts, and would be nice for me. As a developer you need to ensure your not just going off on a tangent for one user (me) that's gonna line your pockets with a hefty
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TAKEphONE said:
First let me thank you for your detailed posts - what I loved about developing apps for Palm OS was the constant feedback and ideas flow from users.

It's a real pleasure to have this sort of interaction on and Android forums, as well. On the iPhone forums most time all you get is users snotting you about how bad or ugly your app is...

I admit I am reluctant to remove the top bar - mainly because of looks - tried it, and the screen does look unbalanced without it (and I do want the first screen a users sees to be attractive...).

I also am not sure about the scrollable call-log - seems redundant to give the option to touch the screen and browse a list with 3-4 lines displayable, when you can easily tap once on the lower-left tab, and browse a full screen list.

How about this:

I will add these options:
- 1x4 i-Bar displayed same as now.
- display the "last call" line ON the top line (replacing the "Tap here for help..." texts), this will probably allow space for a 2x4 i-Bar.

I will probably add widgets support, too.

What do you think ?

(and what do others think ?)

THANKS !
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That sounds cool, although will 1 x 4 i-bar still be scrollable?

I must admit, rather than playing with it, I actually have been using it for my work for the last 5 hours. It's an absolute keeper for me (even if you changed nothing). How do I pay and register? Or should I just buy from marketplace? (I'm using 30 day trial)

 
Lyrrad said:
That sounds cool, although will 1 x 4 i-bar still be scrollable?

I must admit, rather than playing with it, I actually have been using it for my work for the last 5 hours. It's an absolute keeper for me (even if you changed nothing). How do I pay and register? Or should I just buy from marketplace? (I'm using 30 day trial)
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I've been using TakePhone since I bought my Treo several years ago and always loved it. I am not disappointed now. Really looking forward to a bigger i-bar as those pictures are really tiny.
It would be nice to be able to pull my entire contacts list into the phone on the "favorites" tab and then choose which ones appear on my i-bar though. Is that possible? Or maybe have another tab for all contacts.
 
kokiangel said:
I've been using TakePhone since I bought my Treo several years ago and always loved it. I am not disappointed now. Really looking forward to a bigger i-bar as those pictures are really tiny.
It would be nice to be able to pull my entire contacts list into the phone on the "favorites" tab and then choose which ones appear on my i-bar though. Is that possible? Or maybe have another tab for all contacts.
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Hi,

Thanks for your kind words.

I am not sure I want to dedicate a tab for browsing contacts - I always claim it's faster to FIND a contact using the T9 search than to BROWSE to it.

I am adding ability to hide the keypad on the coming version, so you'll be able to browse the search results.

As for the i-Bar - right now it collects automatically all favorites that have a picture. I do plan on enabling users to pick the i-Bar slots by themselves.

Thanks
 
TAKEphONE said:
I am not sure I want to dedicate a tab for browsing contacts - I always claim it's faster to FIND a contact using the T9 search than to BROWSE to it.
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This is true, but for the sake of filling up the favorites list (for example), sometimes you aren't really sure who you want on there. So it'd be cool to be able to just scroll along and think about who you call the most. Otherwise you're in a position where you're staring at a keypad and going "ooookay, who should I add now..."
 
MisterMixelpix said:
This is true, but for the sake of filling up the favorites list (for example), sometimes you aren't really sure who you want on there. So it'd be cool to be able to just scroll along and think about who you call the most. Otherwise you're in a position where you're staring at a keypad and going "ooookay, who should I add now..."
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Oh - of course when I will enable adding favorites by doing a contact lookup (browsing the contacts list).
 
I ended up going onto the web and searching for icons for the businesses and restaurants that I frequent and adding those to my contacts so I could add them to my favorites. It turned out really nice. Now I can quickly call the groomer for my dog from the i-bar or even my favorite pizza place on my drive home from work without slowing down. Really nice. No more generic pictures for me!
 
kokiangel said:
I ended up going onto the web and searching for icons for the businesses and restaurants that I frequent and adding those to my contacts so I could add them to my favorites. It turned out really nice. Now I can quickly call the groomer for my dog from the i-bar or even my favorite pizza place on my drive home from work without slowing down. Really nice. No more generic pictures for me!
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Hope this gives you an idea of what I mean. I like it anyway.
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Two problems:

It's not showing photos for any of my contacts, even those where I manually added a photo in the HTC "People" app. The stock dialer shows them, as does Dialer One

Searching seems really, really slow. I've turned off the search numbers option, but if I want to search for, say, "David", I press "3" and the 3 appears immediately. But I'm able to complete typing 2, 8, 4, 3 before the next value appears on the screen.
 
meyerweb said:
Two problems:

It's not showing photos for any of my contacts, even those where I manually added a photo in the HTC "People" app. The stock dialer shows them, as does Dialer One

Searching seems really, really slow. I've turned off the search numbers option, but if I want to search for, say, "David", I press "3" and the 3 appears immediately. But I'm able to complete typing 2, 8, 4, 3 before the next value appears on the screen.
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Do you see ANY photos in aTAKEphONE ?
Please make sure you have the photo options ON in aTAKEphONE "Display" prefs.

Re. searching - currently the number display is not updated until the first search (for the first character) is done. I will fix this later on.
 
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