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I've always felt that profiles were a very important function that has been left out of Windows Mobile. I used to us PocketZenPhone, but it was always a bit on the flaky side. As its feature list has grown so has its unreliability.
A profile application does not have to do all the slicing and dicing. It needs to do a few things in a very reliable way. It needs to control sounds and notifications, and what applications run in any given profile. For instance, when I choose "car mode" I should be able to set it up so that Bluetooth turns on, iGudance or Audible opens, and volumes are on high, and shift the backlighting to high, if on powe. "Night mode" should allow me to have it turn off or mute notifications but leave my alarm app running at a high volume.
Basic, reliable, profile management is all that is needed. We don't really need the app to run off our Outlook schedule, and turn things off and on when meetings are scheduled to start or end. The world is not that rigid. This is where profile apps start to fall apart. They try to do far to much and become unreliable.
I'm actually quite surprised there haven't been more 3rd party choices for profile apps. If MS doesn't do it I would like to see one of the larger Windows Mobile developers with a proven record, such as SPB step up and do it.
Dave
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