aTAKEphONE - Caller App

[TAKEphONE]

aTAKEphONE will change the way you use your phone to
make calls - no more having to open the G1 keyboard to search
for contacts, or fiddling with the tiny on-screen keyboard
buttons, fast & easy access to all your favorites, call-log
and even a dial-by-photo feature !



Product highlights

TAKEphONE will change the way you use your phone to
make calls - no more having to open the G1 keyboard to
search for contacts, or fiddling with the tiny on-screen
keyboard buttons, fast & easy access to all your favorites,
call-log and even a dial-by-photo feature !

"Find/Dial" tab:

- Large (and I mean LARGE) on-screen buttons, always on
screen at the start ("Search") screen.

- Tap a phone number using those large buttons to manually
dial it or to add it to an existing/new contact.

- Search for contact in a super fast & sophisticated way -
using a T9-like mechanism (e.g. to search for "John" simply
tap the "JKL", "MNO", "GHI", "MNO" buttons).

- You can search fields, words within fields, or even free text
within words.

- Even more - you can use the "...and..." button (tap & HOLD
the '*' button) to combine fields (e.g. enter "jo...and...do"
to search for "John Doe").

- You can even speed-dial the first 9 favorite entries of
TAKEphONE right from the main screen by tapping &
holding the 1-9 on-screen button.

- Hot: you can have all favorites with pictures show up
in the main screen for 'Dial by photo' operation.


"Speed Dial" tab:

- Unlimited favorite entries arranged in pages of 5x2
(or 3x3 in landscape mode) large buttons for easy dialing.

- Tap and HOLD a button to open functions menu -
allowing dialing of other phone fields for that contact,
or starting an SMS message, etc.

- Add entries from the main "Find/Dial" tab.

- You can import all your built-in favorites from the menu.

"Recents" tab:

- A list of the last outgoing calls for easy redialing.

- Ordered so that the last made call is always on top.

- More features (such as filtering, going to a specific
day etc.) to come.

TAKEphONE makes using your device as a phone as
fast & easy as it can be.

Pros:
- Great UI
- Favorite tab one-click speed dial for your favorite (wonderful feature)
- Home screen with T9 keyboard for quick search of contacts with Virtual Keyboard
- I-bar with your latest calls with photo icon of contacts

Cons:
- Search feature is a bit laggy at times when click keys (update should fix lag)
- Should have photo icon for favorites in the favorite tabs
- Maybe photo icon in recent call log (everyone likes to have visual photos)

Overall, its a very nice start to this app, i would like to see new updates to this app and should be a decent paid app to purchase and help set this as the new default caller app.

Great job aTAKEphONE :]

kudos.

You can get a 30 days full featured trial at www.shsh.com/android

[lwilson]

OMG, this is fantastic! I happened to be up late tonight and this is slick; exactly what I've been looking for while driving on the road. I'll keep playing with it, but so far so good!

One thing I'd like to see is a search by business name that's in the contact details, since Gmail just enabled this on the desktop.

Edit: My freakin' fault...IT DOES!

[TAKEphONE]

OMG, this is fantastic! I happened to be up late tonight and this is slick; exactly what I've been looking for while driving on the road. I'll keep playing with it, but so far so good!

One thing I'd like to see is a search by business name that's in the contact details, since Gmail just enabled this on the desktop.

Hi,

Thanks for your kind words.

You can enable searching in company (aka organization) field in the "Settings".

But - this slows down searching quite a bit.

Shimon

[lwilson]

Hi,

Thanks for your kind words.

You can enable searching in company (aka organization) field in the "Settings".

But - this slows down searching quite a bit.

Shimon

Yeah I JUST found it, lol. it is slow. Any reason for that? Any way it can be sped up in near future? Other than this, this app is fantastic!

[TAKEphONE]

Yeah I JUST found it, lol. it is slow. Any reason for that? Any way it can be sped up in near future? Other than this, this app is fantastic!

Hi,

Well - as far as I can tell, there is no faster access to getting the names of company fields - I have to do an SQL query on that field for every contact, and that takes lots of time.

I can only hope I am missing something, and there is a better way. Trying to get help on this.

[lwilson]

Hi,

Well - as far as I can tell, there is no faster access to getting the names of company fields - I have to do an SQL query on that field for every contact, and that takes lots of time.

I can only hope I am missing something, and there is a better way. Trying to get help on this.

I did notice that it force closes when that feature is turned on.

What I was going to do ANYWAY for my GMail contacts is tag the names with the company name like Tom Jones (Miller Company, Inc). That way it will always come up in the searches, even for email. I have several people in the same company and it's hard to remember different names/numbers, so I will do that. Thanks!

[lwilson]

Hi,

Well - as far as I can tell, there is no faster access to getting the names of company fields - I have to do an SQL query on that field for every contact, and that takes lots of time.

I can only hope I am missing something, and there is a better way. Trying to get help on this.

How do I make a space so I can type in a last name as well? I have some first names that are real short (Rob) so the list is long and I want to type the last name as well.

[TAKEphONE]

How do I make a space so I can type in a last name as well? I have some first names that are real short (Rob) so the list is long and I want to type the last name as well.

Hi,

Use the '*' button - functions as "...and..." - you can combine names:

For example - if you want to find John Dow - press 56*36 to find "JO...and...DO"

[lwilson]

Hi,

Use the '*' button - functions as "...and..." - you can combine names:

For example - if you want to find John Dow - press 56*36 to find "JO...and...DO"

Ok, that works well; thanks!

[lwilson]

When a call ends, one irritant is that it goes to the call log by default and stays there. Even if I hit home or another application, if I hit phone again, it's back on the log. I want it so if I hit phone it will take me right to the dial screen. Did I miss a setting for this?