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Get Gestures For Quick Calls, Texts & Emails From iPhone Contacts App

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Thanks to its support for iCloud, Gmail, Hotmail and other similar services, the contact management in iOS is pretty good. You don’t have to worry too much about importing contacts to your iPhone manually, and the stock Phone app integrates the address book quite nicely as well. There are a few things, however, that might entice some users to shift to third-party contact managers for iOS. ReachFast Contacts is a pretty decent example of an app that offers something that is unavailable in iOS by default: gesture control. Admittedly, it only takes a few extra taps to make a call from the stock Contacts or Phone app, but if you have access to the Cydia store, it is now possible to have the best of both worlds. QuickGestures lets you make calls, send a text or start composing an email right from the stock Contacts app simply by performing different gestures on each contact’s name - no extra buttons added! Read More

Prime Adds Color-Coding To Incoming & Outgoing Entries In iPhone Call Log

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Apple’s penchant for perfection fully manifests itself in the company’s choice of UI elements for iOS, but there are still a few idiosyncrasies that make the overall experience of using an iPhone slightly annoying. While the OS gets big things like cloud syncing, app environment and gesture control spot-on, there are some little aspects of it that could have made your life a little easier if improved. Take the stock Phone app for example - while it doesn't lack much in terms of features, there is a slight inconsistency in the ‘Recents’ tab that might have annoyed you on several occasions. By default, the iPhone call log displays missed calls in red color, but there is no easy way of distinguishing between incoming and outgoing calls, since they are both shown in the same font. There is a tiny differentiating icon next to each entry, but you can’t analyze the list at a single glance just using that. Jailbreak users can finally address this issue, thanks to the newly released Prime Cydia tweak that brings full color-coding support to the iPhone call log. Read More

Easily Record Phone Calls On Android With MP3 InCall Recorder & Voice

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As smart as they are, many smartphones don’t normally ship with a built-in call recording support for the obvious reason that users might abuse the feature. In truth, the need to record a phone call is very real when you consider situations such as taking a phone interview, enjoying a long-distance phone conversation on a special occasion with loved ones, or just asking for directions over the phone. MP3 InCall Recorder & Voice is a free Android app that - as its name suggests - allows you to record phone calls in MP3 format. The app runs in the background and overlays a button on the phone app’s interface. When you make or attend a call, tapping this button instantly begins the recording. The app automatically stop recording when a call ends. The app also works as a simple voice recorder. All recordings are saved in MP3 format and can be played directly in the app. The free version of MP3 InCall Recorder & Voice features ads and does not allow you to email the recordings to yourself from within the app. Upgrading to the pro version removes ads and in addition, allows you to add notes to your recordings and enable the 'Record all calls' mode. Read More

Intelligent Ringer Dynamically Tweaks Android Ring Volume Based On Ambient Noise

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So you’re driving, listening to your favorite tracks and have just reached your destination. You pick up the phone and realize you have a bunch of unattended calls, consequently realizing the phone was on silent and the vibrator buzz was just not loud enough in all that music. This has happened to me a lot, and there are plenty of other moments it skips one's mind to turn of the silent mode, or even turn it on – which can be embarrassing at times. Enter Intelligent Ringer - the app that adjusts your phone’s ring volume based on the ambient noise level, and uses the proximity sensor to detect a pocketed phone to enable the maximum ring volume. The app is a breeze to set up as well, and you wont get lost in a heap of complicated settings. Read on after the jump to see how well the app fares and what more it has to offer. Read More

Thread For Android Shows Recent SMS, Mail & Social Updates With Caller ID

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Countless phone dialer and contacts replacement apps have come and gone since Android first came to light. Though there haven’t been many apps to break away from the fairly standard features in this regard to produce something innovative – something that is more than just eye candy. Enter Thread - the app that gives you more control and information about your contact during an incoming call. It consolidates all your communication with your contacts in Messages, Gmail, Facebook and Twitter, and neatly brings up the latest feed from each medium when receiving a call. Read on after the break for more on this one-of-a-kind app. Read More

Orange’s Libon: Free Messages, VoIP Calls & Visual Voicemail For iPhone

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An iPhone might cost a lot more than feature phones, but the presence of apps like Viber, Skype and Tango makes the investment worthwhile in the long run. If you are often connected to the net, or are on 3G/LTE, VoIP services can really help you in saving on calls and texting. There are already some pretty good messengers available in the App Store, but Libon from the popular European carrier Orange is a much more refined choice as compared to most. The app also offers visual voicemail that can be associated with your phone number, and will record messages for you when you are busy. You will not be charged anything for interacting with other Libon users, but making calls to other numbers requires in-app purchases (much like “credits” in Skype). Read More

Turn to hangup: Silence Or Reject Calls By Simply Flipping Your iPhone

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Android and Windows Phone devices manufactured by HTC have got the rather unique feature of being able to handle incoming calls via gestures. We covered Attentive Phone for WP7 a while back, which allowed HTC users to respond to a call without having to look at their phone’s screen. It is a bit surprising that no one thought of porting this nifty feature to iPhone until now, as Cydia developers are usually quick to bring such useful little functionalities to iOS. Fortunately, there is now finally a way to disconnect or silence incoming calls by simply changing your iPhone’s position. The new tweak named Turn to hangup serves two purposes. You can just flip your phone to reject a call, or there is the option to shake your device when there is an incoming call, and it will be silenced. Read More

Counters: Track & Limit SMS, Call & Data Usage On Nokia Windows Phone

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When the Lumia series was first unveiled, Nokia did not take full advantage of the OS customization rights that Microsoft had granted them. Nokia’s own version of Windows Phone wasn’t too different from the one rolled out for other OEMs, which proved to be a bit disappointing for most WP7 fans, but thankfully, the folks over at Nokia seem to be determined to make everything right and give their customers special treatment by rolling out a slew of Nokia-exclusive Mango apps. The latest addition to the Nokia Collection section of the Marketplace is Counters. The app is sure to prove useful for almost all Lumia owners, as the functionality it brings to the mix is pretty basic, yet important. Using the Counters app, you will be able to view all the usage stats related to your monthly calls, text messages and internet data. And that’s just half of it! The app can also be used to place restrictions on all the aforementioned items, so that you can stay within your phone budget each month. Read More

Super Missed Call: Respond To Unattended Calls Using Motion Gestures [Android]

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Direct Call, one of the many innovative and exciting features that Samsung Galaxy S III brings to the table, lets users directly make calls to contacts from within text conversations. While texting a specific contact, all you need to do is lift your smartphone to the ear and let your Android’s proximity sensor do the trick for you. How about an app that utilizes the same concept to help you with handling your missed calls? Fresh to the Google Play Store, Super Missed Call is an Android call management utility that lets you take control of your unattended calls through several motion-based gestures. Using the app, you can keep a close tab on your missed calls and call back to the required contacts by just raising your phone to your ear. In addition, by placing the phone face down on a surface, you can easily ignore all the missed calls that you’ve got. That’s not all; the app also supports scheduling calls for all the contacts whom you wish to call back at a later time. In short, not only does the app log your missed calls, but also lets you automatically call the most important numbers in the list with utmost ease. Read More

Make Skype, Google Voice & Talkatone Calls Directly From Stock iPhone Contacts App

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Services like Skype and Google Voice provide users with a convenient and economical way of making voice calls from their iPhone, and the best part is that when the conversation starts, you are not likely to feel like you are not talking to someone over an ordinary phone call. Having said that, you still have to access Skype, Talkatone and Google Voice via their respective clients, and thus, it can get a bit cumbersome calling someone who isn’t added to your Skype account, but whose credentials are saved in the stock Contacts app. MultiDialer is a Cydia tweak that extends the Call menu for phone numbers in your jailbroken iPhone to include calling options for Skype, Talkatone, GVoice, Z4 & textPlus. Users of MultiDialer will get the option to make their calls from these sources even when they tap a phone number from some external source, like a website or an email. Read More

CallApp: Dialer Replacement, Data Sharing & VoIP Calling Android App With Social Media Integration

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Quality dialer replacement apps for Android smartphones are hard to find, but in CallApp, you get far more options than you’d have ever imagined to have at your discretion while making and receiving phone calls. First things first; CallApp vows to be a ‘universal social contact book’ for your Android phone. Social, in a sense that it pulls critical and updated information from various renowned online businesses and social networks – Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Google +, and Google Mail – to show all the latest updates regarding your callers. Be it the last interaction that you made with your contact via email, text messages, or on a social network, your CallApp caller ID screen has you covered. In addition, this Holo-themed app helps users easily take notes whilst attending calls, and lets them share reminders, meetings, contacts, location, photos, apps, URLs  and more with other CallApp users over the web for free. That’s not all; CallApp also supports linking your phone contacts’ social accounts with their phone numbers, and allows customizing caller ID screen for each individual contact number stored on your Android device’s address book. Read More

BlingBoard For Android: Widget For Call, Messaging, Facebook & Twitter Alerts/Updates

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The option to check your latest email, messaging and social media notifications/feeds on your phone via homescreen widgets is one of the things the Android platform is revered for. Fresh to the Google Play Store, BlingBoard is a slick and beautifully designed Android homescreen widget that adds a bit of style to the aforementioned concept, and lets you view your latest missed calls, unread text messages, emails, Facebook and Twitter feeds under one roof. The widget is a collection of five main tabs that provide you easy and instant access to notifications pertaining to each of the aforementioned categories without requiring you to launch apps for each. You can view the 20 latest updates within each category, call your contacts back, send a quick reply to received text messages, and post directly to your Facebook Wall and Twitter timeline. Read More

Vonage Mobile Brings Free VoIP Calling & Texting App To Android & iPhone

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When talking of quality VoIP service providers, it is hard to look past Vonage. To cater to the needs of smartphone/tablet users, Vonage just recently released its Android and iOS apps, allowing users to make calls and send text messages to other Vonage subscribers over the web (Wi-Fi, 3G & 4G networks) on the go and for free. With Vonage Mobile, users can register for an account using their phone numbers (just like WhatsApp & Viber), and connect with friends anywhere in the world, provided they too have the app installed. The app automatically detects other Vonage users from your phone’s address book. Apart from using a high-definition audio codec to improve call quality, the app lets you send unlimited free text messages, keeps a detailed log of calls and texts, displays caller ID and network strength/quality for calls, lets you send invites to multiple contacts in one go, and cancel incoming calls by replying with a quick (predefined) text message. That’s not all; the app provides low rates (30% less than Skype) for calls to numbers that don't have the app installed, and allows you to purchase credit using your Android Market account. Read More

StartDial: Choose Default Menu On Launching Phone App In iPhone [Cydia]

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Cydia is all about making the overall iPhone experience more efficient and productive for users. The developers strive to do that by working on every little aspect of iOS, and bringing something new to the table, no matter how small the change might be. StartDial is one such tweak, which is all about giving you more control over your iDevice. It makes the stock Phone app smarter, so that it will know which section to display each time you launch it. In addition to its own decision-making power, you can also choose any section as your default Phone display using StartDial. Of course, there are many third-party apps that acts as standalone dialling options (and come with a lot of extra useful features), but having a tweak that customizes the stock Phone app is certainly something a lot of people can use. Read More

Smart Analytics Provides Detailed Statistics For Phone Calls [Android]

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If you own an Android smartphone and want to get detailed graphical analysis of all the various phone calls that you’ve either made or received on your device, then Smart Analytics might prove to be helpful. Using Smart Analytics, you can easily scroll through your contacts list to find out the total number of incoming, outgoing and missed calls to/from each contact and get a graphical representation of the total duration of each successful call. In addition, the app also offers a brief breakdown of your device’s internal storage (Total Internal Memory, Available Internal Memory and Used Internal Memory).  Read More

MobileVoIP: Make Free Calls With The First VoIP App For Windows Phone 7

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Cashing in on Skype’s absence from Windows Phone 7, the folks over at MobileVoIP have become the first to launch a VoIP app in the WP7 Marketplace. Using MobileVoIP, you can now easily place calls over the web, and that too for free. There are a few negatives, but very few. For instance, the app offers a bit shaky voice quality, but you can chat with your friends with relative ease. App to app calls in MobileVoIP are free, but if you want to make external calls, you will have to purchase the app's specific tokens. Details after the jump. Read More

Make Free Wi-Fi / VoIP Voice Calls With Android [Guide]

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In case you are in the US and have access to Google Voice, then there is some great news for you. TheTodFather, senior XDA member, came out with a comprehensive workaround that let’s you easily make WI-FI / VOIP Calls using your Android device through a free hosted SIPserver! The solution can also be utilized in situations where a user can wants to make a phone call using 3G and bypassing mobile carrier’s voice network.

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Record Skype Calls In High Quality With MP3 Skype Recorder

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If you’re looking for an automated Skype call recorder that can grab conversations in high quality and quickly save them with time stamps, MP3 Skype Recorder will certainly come handy. It’s a Skype call recording application that not only records P2P conversations but conference and SkypeOut calls as well in high quality MP3 format. What makes it different from previously covered Skype recording applications, such as, CallGraph Skype Recorder and iFree Skype Recorder, is the way it interacts with users. It lets you know when call recording starts and what’s the duration of call recording while showing other useful call related information. Read More

Auto Dial Phone Numbers Or Contacts In Skype With Robo Skype

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Robo Skype is a complementary application for Skype, which can be used to set a date and time to automatically dial Skype contacts by number or nickname. It works from your Skype account and all pricing and fees is only in accordance with your subscription. In other words, you do not incur any additional charges for using Robo Skype. Automating the Skype dialing process can be helpful, if you require making a lot of calls on a daily basis and might wish to schedule them according to a set time frame, such as to contact clients according to a schedule. Read More

ShakeCall For Android Lets You Receive And End Calls With A Shake

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Do you often find yourself fighting with the receive/end slider whenever you receive a call on your Android phone? or do you hate waiting for the screen to wake after you take it off your ear to end an ongoing call? ShakeCall for Android is a free, handy tool that allows you to receive incoming calls by giving your phone a quick shake or simply holding it to your ear and lets you end both incoming and outgoing calls with a shake. More after the break. Read More