Contact Blast (Full Featured Contact Manager / Dialer)

[JohnnyLicious]

Contacts Blast

Contacts Blast is the revolutionary and fun new way of organizing your contacts. Contacts Blast seamlessly integrates with the Android contacts book and extends it allowing you to create groups and assign contacts to them. Quickly selecting your group from the main screen will display only the contacts for that group.

Contacts Blast features a visually stunning display to showcase your contacts with pictures and contact information. Touch the picture and it will dial the default phone number, touch a specific phone number to dial, SMS, or email. All of your groups and contacts can automatically synch with your GMail account and will exist even if you uninstall the program. Contacts Blast supports both landscape and portrait view along with lots of beautiful icons for you to use with your custom groups.
Have a blast organizing your contacts!

Screenshots:






Group Selections





Screenshots courtesy of Zeruel (Thanks)

Features:
* NEW: Contacts Blast easily becomes your default contacts app. Activate Contacts Blast automatically from the Android desktop with use of the green "Call" button and you will be able to choose between Contacts Blast or the default dialer. No extra work necessary. Easily reverts back to default behavior whenever you want.

* NEW: Super high performance. Every aspect of the app has been highly optimized since the initial release and provides a smooth, consistent user experience whether scrolling through huge lists of contacts or browsing through your groups.

* NEW: Configure exactly what buttons you want to be displayed on your main screen in the preferences menu. SMS, Email and Edit Contact can now be turned on or off to your liking.

* NEW: Speed Dial your contacts with the new speed dial screen. Every group supports the speed dial screen which can be activated with a single touch.

* NEW: Intelligent contact searching. Tap the search button or simply start typing and Contacts Blast will rapidly narrow down the list of contacts that match what you are typing. A single click will automatically select the contact you want. Search is very intelligent and will narrow down your results in real time as you type.

* Sleek high quality and high performance graphics and icons.

* Stylish and colorful user interface that shows off the power of your Android smart phone better than the default black and white contacts manager / dialer.

* All standard phone features including touchpad dialer and call log.

* Assign pictures to your contacts and slide through contacts by face and name.

* Screen automatically rotates when the phone is turned or keyboard opened.

* Voice Mail button for one touch voice mail dialing.

* Create new groups and assign them contacts on your phone!

* Full group management right from your phone: Add new groups, Edit groups, Delete groups.

* Personalize your groups by assigning each one a custom icon.

* Add, edit, or remove any contact or group any time. ALL changes on your phone automatically sync with GMail.

* Switch between groups or view all of your contacts at once.

* Perform most tasks in a single click on the main contact screen.

* Click and hold a contact picture in the list to automatically speed dial their default number.

* Full support for standard Android groups such as Recent calls, Favorites, and All Contacts

* Scrolling interface neatly displays all phone numbers per user.

* Have a contact with multiple email addresses or SMS numbers? No problem! Contacts Blast makes messaging easy.

* Send SMS text messages or email in a single click.

* See your current Android background transparently behind Contacts Blast.

* Fully supports GMail "their picture" feature for your contacts.

Review:

Pros:
- Photo icons for all contacts / grid and dock to slide to see contacts at the bottom
- Ease to find contact with search button
- Easy to sms / email / call / contact with this app because of the shortcut right on the home screen
- View changes for favorites / all contacts / groups
- Landscape mode is nice with photo contact icons.

Cons:
- Background is distorted
- Contact information seems to be floating on desktop
- When clicked on contact the contact information to the right of photo icon is hard to see and sort of offset
- Icon where it show mobile number is offset on the icon / gets lost into background if its black

Features I'd like to see:
- Make this contact app like more like a "app" maybe resemble the default contact phonebook with the same layout maybe but incorportate photo icon views for all icons and search bar.
- Less of a desktop feel for the icons that float in the top
- Organize tabs at the bottom to the top and space them equally to fill the entire screen.


and big thanks to Matt for providing me this application for my review, screenshots weren't needed because he already provided them and I didn't want to disclose my personal contact information / photos.

This app has HUGE potential in my opinion, just take a look at my features / changes and other users feedback

Thanks again :]

[gbk1]

+1 for JohnnyLicious

Always giving the thorough review.

[BadBoy]

Great review.

[JohnnyLicious]

thanks alot everyone, I can't wait for new updates for this app and hope they take my feedback / suggestions along with others to make this app amazing!!

yeaaaaah cause im tired of the default dialer / phonebook its super plain and ugly ahaha

[*susan*]

Awesome review, Johnny!!

[JohnnyLicious]

thanks susan i lagged on puttin up these review since ive been busy with school but got it done =D

i got another one coming tonight or tomorrow.

[animguy]

Is anyone else who is using CB experiencing a very long lag when the program is first opened? I bought this as soon as I could after updating to rc33 and being able to access Paid Applications in the market. When I open CB, I will wait up to 20 seconds with just a blank screen before the contacts pop up.
A couple of times, the ForceClose option has popped up but I just click Wait and the program pops up.

I have a brand new (less than 1 week) G1 and do not have many applications on it yet. I am not in a 3G area so that may have something to do with it. I just wanted to see if anyone else experienced the lag before I uninstalled it which I don't want to do. I used FaceContact on my windows mobile phone before the G1 and I love not having to scroll through the default contact list.

[*susan*]

I had a horrible lag with the program and ended up uninstalling as a result. I hope they can fix that problem, because other than that, I really like it a lot. But, I have no patience for laggy apps.

[Zeruel]

Thanks for all of the feedback and reviews. We have been addressing all suggestions we have received and will be releasing Contacts Blast 1.4 in the near future with several new features and enhancements.

[Zeruel]

I just wanted to mention that we released Contacts Blast 1.4 today and most of Johnny's features (as well as several other requests that we received) have made it in.

If anyone is having any issues with Contacts Blast, especially with performance, please let me know (you can contact me through a private message or email droidmatic.support@gmail.com).

Full details are on www.droidmatic.com



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