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Old 01-17-2004, 07:15 AM
Janak Parekh
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Default JGUI Releases Phone Profiles 5.0

http://www.jgui.net/phoneprofiles/download.html

Invariably, power cell phone users always ask if Pocket PC Phones have "profiles", i.e., combinations of settings so that they can quickly adjust the behavior of their phone for different environments (for example, having all sounds muted for meetings). This functionality isn't built into PPCPE, but JGUI has continued to evolve their tool to give Pocket PC Phones this functionality.



It comes with four predefined profiles, which can be fully edited. The pro version also lets you customize the incoming call notification bubble, so that you can change its size, include photo ID, and more. The lite version costs $15, and the pro version costs $35. I'd give it a try, but I personally always keep my i700 on vibrate.
 
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Old 01-17-2004, 08:25 AM
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I believe this is the same SW as MY|PHONE|PROFILES, which I purchased a few months ago and which totally screwed up my PPCPE so that I had to hard reset it :evil:

I believe that was version 3 back then, so this version 5 may actually work this time. But I think I'll wait for some reviews from others before I give it another try...
 
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Old 01-17-2004, 10:37 AM
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Ye, I know. Although I do not have all PPC Phone Edition devices available now or announced, with a little help of my friend from the World I checked as many equipment as we found. I noticed that operating systems, always signed as WM2003 or PPC2002 are different a little, specially in phone features. This is the problem. Others software which change ballooon message or give caller's photo have the same problems.

I tried to build-in fixes for all know versions. But I cannot guarante of course. If I will get in touch next devices I will improve this program.

PLEASE TEST. USE TRIAL VERSION.

Even when not all feaures will work correctly, I think this program is worth to use with Phone Edition. And if you will give me feedback about your device and problems I will put more fixes.

I just updated the page about: how to customize the fullscreen dialog of the upcoming phone.
www.jgui.net/phoneprofiles/

You can use the default fullscreen message or customize it to your need:






Make your own skin, background, icons, use your mind! I will give away 3 full versions for the best skin or icons. Before the end of February.
 
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Old 01-17-2004, 12:20 PM
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$35 is a bit much for this limited function application. Thats more than pocket-informant for e.g.

It should be compared to v2r's caller2picture, which is only $15, and does much the same thing (without the profiles)

Now if it was a fully functional dialler replacement that emulated a normal mobile phone, I would consider paying $35 for it (as long as I can do everything with one hand, and make handsfree voicedailed calls from my bluetooth headset, and select a number from my contacts and dial it, with only one hand, like you can do with a normal mobile phone).

Take the above as a coding challenge (I understand UI's can not be trademarked, patented or copyrighted (e.g apple vs microsoft) so it should be legal to copy symbian or nokia).

I suggest the price for just selecting profiles should be revised to $5, and maybe $10 for the picture pop-ups, at which point I would consider buying it.

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Old 01-17-2004, 01:10 PM
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if you do not want to use fullscreen customized message
you can buy my software for only $15 lite version

(btw: c2p does not allow you to skinning)
 
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Old 01-17-2004, 06:36 PM
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What the heck... I'll try the full version. I'll let y'all know how it goes on my i700.

*Phil
 
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Old 01-17-2004, 08:23 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JGUI
if you do not want to use fullscreen customized message
you can buy my software for only $15 lite version
BTW, it does indeed show up as $14.95 on PocketGear, but not Handango -- it shows up as $19.99 on the latter. You might want to fix that...

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Old 01-17-2004, 11:27 PM
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So far, the app works well. One thing you may want to look at: on the control panel (settings) screen, the Phone Profiles option has no icon on my screen.

I'll do a mini-review of it for the users at pdaphonehome.com in the i700 forum. So far, I've had the most success with this app over Caller2Picture or others.

Plus, $35 is a lot, but it does include custom pics for incoming calls, along with skinnable pop-ups, among the other ring controls and profile options. Borders on that 'overpriced' edge, where maybe $29 would have been easier to pay.

App looks good so far!!

*Phil
 
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Old 01-18-2004, 04:48 PM
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Dangerwit I look forward to the review. The last time this came out other I700 users had issues and I am not inclined to have problems again. So lets see what it can do.

I would like a phone dialer replacement built in to mimic a typical phone screen.
 
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Old 01-18-2004, 10:26 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PPCMD
I would like a phone dialer replacement built in to mimic a typical phone screen.
As Ive said previously, why do people keep re-inventing the wheel. Why not just copy a well-known phone interface as closely as possible, and be done with it?

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