MetaView Software(the folks behind PalmPDF) have recently begun to work on an application that is said to bring an iPhone-style contact and call list to Palm OS smartphones. A friend of TamsPalm has provided us with a beta version – here’s what we saw.
When 2Cool4U starts up, it presents you with a list of contacts. They can be scrolled with your finger, tapping on an entry for a longer time brings up the following window allowing you to SMS and call the contact(using the standard Treo applications). The bar at the bottom of the screen shows you battery/bluetooth/network status indicators, the name of your current carrier and your current phone number:
Tapping the photo of a contact brings up an extra dialog that lets you choose additional phone numbers/email addresses/… :
Pressing a key on the Treo’s keyboard makes 2Cool4U scroll to all entries starting with that letter(the others aren’t masked). Dragging the stylus across the screen from the left to the right pops up a basic call list. Tapping an entry lets you call or SMS the victim once again:
Last but not least, you can choose the sort order in the 2Cool4U preference panel:
This preview was made on a Treo 680. Our beta was 50k big and identified itself as v0.94. The program was stable, the scrolling animation was extremely smooth.
What we saw was a fancy(aka loads of eye-candy) list of contacts that can be scrolled through(badly) without a stylus. I have always liked searching for contacts using my phone’s keyboard – should you ever feel like getting some eye candy, 2Cool4U definitely should be kept in mind.
P.s. The preview version can now be downloaded from the MetaViewSoft blog here.
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