Nektra Contact Manager is a finger friendly contact manager specifically designed for busy people who need to manage a huge number of contacts. It’s still a beta and only supports QVGA devices (soon to be more resolutions)

Features:

* Finger friendly controls
* List controls provide a smooth scroll
* Contacts can be grouped by Company or by Groups (touching the bottom tab Contacts button you can switch the views)
* Sms list
* Phone calls (touching the bottom tab Calls button you can switch calls views: Incoming, Outgoing, Lost, All)
* Keyboard for contacts fast search (press ‘Undock’ button)
* Favorites can be accessed in iPhone way
* Scroll with the finger or using the right side scrollbar to go to a certain place
* Contact photo display
* Send SMS / MMS to multiple-recipients (select contacts touching them until they are selected and then choose menu option ‘Send SMS / MMS’)

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Alfa Kenny One has zipped up some Rings and alerts from Windows Mobile 6.5 for users who don’t have 6.5.x ROMs yet. There are 18 in total.

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Mobile Vikings is a relatively new mobile operator in Belgium. They offer free mobile internet and a lot of innovative features. More information on their website.

You can use this pocket pc software to easily check the status of your account on a Windows Mobile. Applications for other platforms are available as well (see this blog post for an overview).

• Balance: See your credit, how many free text messages and how much free data (internet) you’ve got left and the validity date of your data/SMS pack.
• Call history: Shows a history of all your calls, messages and data use. This works together with to Pocket Outlook address book to show the name of the sender or caller instead of just a phone number.
• Top-up history: Want to know how much you spend on your phone? No problem, just take a look at your top-up history.

This application is availlable in Dutch, French and English.

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Minimal Dialer, created by pauldgroot, is a dialer that lives up to its name. It is a clean looking dialer that keeps all the essentials of the basic dialer. Finger friendly buttons make this dialer a great utility for anybody with large hands. Version 1.3 brings enhanced graphics and redialing/smartdialing functions.

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iContact is an all-inclusive finger-friendly contact manager for Windows Mobile PocketPC phones. It’s easily skinnable, intuitive, and replaces the standard Windows Mobile contact chooser. Translations are available for over 25 languages. iContact supports true VGA skins but also will support any screen size! The default skin has a diamond-like look and feel; other skins are available on the skins page of the developer’s site. iContact settings can be found in the Windows Mobile system settings menu. The latest version fixes a few bugs and also adds a couple features. Now WM6.5 users can choose to “create shortcut” for a contact and their buddy’s picture will now show up in the start menu.

Version 0.95 – September 29, 2009:

* [+] Added “Remove Shortcut” button to details screen if appropriate
* [+] Added “createshortcut” and “removeshortcut” to language file
* [+] Added contact shortcut icons to start menu shortcuts for Windows Mobile 6.5
* [+] Added ability for hardware “*” key to favorite/defavorite a contact
* [#] Fixed outgoing calls to numbers with no name displaying [null]
* [#] Hid SIP button being displayed by iContactAE

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Nektra Contact Manager is a finger friendly contact manager specifically designed for busy people who need to manage a huge number of contacts. It is free to use, except for redistribution purposes.

Features:

* Finger friendly controls
* List controls provide a smooth scroll
* Contacts can be grouped by Company or by Groups (touching the bottom tab Contacts button you can switch the views)
* Sms list
* Phone calls (touching the bottom tab Calls button you can switch calls views: Incoming, Outgoing, Lost, All)
* Keyboard for contacts fast search (press ‘Undock’ button)
* Favorites can be accessed in iPhone way
* Scroll with the finger or using the right side scrollbar to go to a certain place
* Contact photo display

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iDialer is a finger-friendly dialpad for Windows Mobile PocketPC phones. It’s essentially a clone of the very excellent iPhone dialer, with one major enhancement: iDialer allows you to seamlessly place calls using your virtual number from Google Voice, Phone.com, or JaJah!

iDialer is also skinnable (for those who don’t like the iPhone look) and works with both VGA and QVGA skins, and in both portrait and landscape mode. It can also be used to simply replace your built-in dialpad, or as a nice interface for your calling cards! The latest versions, v0.51 and v0.52, fix some bugs with Google Voice and make switching service more intuitive.

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Here is another one from Total Access, Fusion Voicemail Plus 2.0, a free, downloadable visual voicemail application by PhoneFusion, gives Windows Mobile phone users with wireless data and text messaging plans the ability to centralize all of their voicemail boxes and see—right on the device screen—a list of their voicemail messages. It also allows users to listen to voicemails directly from their phone.

Features exclusive to Windows Mobile users

1. Receive faxes right on their smartphone. Users can use their existing mobile number or register a new number to receive faxes.
2. Ability to easily forward voicemails to any e-mail address or another Fusion Voicemail Plus mailbox. Fusion Voicemail Plus 2.0 also integrates with the user’s address book and expands the ability to use touch screen gestures to navigate through messages.

NOTE : Some carriers may charge for forwarding messages. Fusion might be free now, but if the carrier charges per forward… it could get quite expensive.
edit by Chris.

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This is an application for full text searching in contacts. It supports multi pattern search and ‘Case sensitive search’ options. This version also gives the option for large fonts (finger friendly) and scrolling of results.

You can search:

* Full name
* Full home address
* Full work address
* All contact phone numbers
* All contact emails
* All contact IM address and Nickname
* Contact Body
* Company and Job title
* Categoties
* Department
* Children
* Manager
* Assistant Name and Phone
* Web page (Only valid URL are supported – valid URL contains http://)

Note: Tested on QVGA, VGA and square devices

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Manually creating shortcut files for SMS and call sending for specific contacts requires using a text editor (in PPC and PC). Then you have to manually type text codes and memorizethe phone number for that particular contact. Not to mention repeating the same procedure again and again for each contact.

There is a solution. LnkMe is a simple application to automate all of this. The shortcut files created will allow you to automatically create a new SMS for a particular person or make a call to a person, depending on what lnk file you chose to create.

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