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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TrineFix is a utility that will fix a lot of issues you might have with your PIM data (Contacts, Appointments and Tasks). If you have no “issues” with PIM data, it still can be a benefit to easily do a cleanup with TrineFix (getting rid of very old appointments and so forth). Duplicate contacts or appointments, FileAs on your contacts not as you like it, missing country codes, or not the format you want it to be? TrineFix will fix it for you.

Some of the features:

* Duplicates (app, con)
* FileAs (con)
* Country codes (con)
* Bulk deletes (app, con, tsk)
* Built-in version check and download feature
* Truly finger friendly (no small buttons or menus)
* Keyboard friendly (smartphone owner friendly)

Note: this is the last, possibly free, version until it is available on Marketplace, could be for a small fee.

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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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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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TrineFix is an app to help you manage your contacts, appointments and tasks. Do you have issues with duplicate contacts or appointments, the “FileAs” function on your contacts not being how you like it, missing country codes or incorrect formats? Well, TrineFix will fix it for you! There are other applications that do much of the same, but TrineFix lets you always preview the data that will be affected and even select/unselect individual items quickly to give you full control.

Note: it’s highly recommended to backup your data before using tools such as TrineFix.

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OutSync is a free Windows application that syncs photos of your Facebook friends with matching contacts in Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to select which contacts are updated, so you can update all contacts at once or just a few at a time. The main benefit of OutSync is for Windows Mobile users. Updated contacts are automatically synced with Windows Mobile devices by Exchange server or ActiveSync. Thus, new and fun photos appear during calls and other places where contacts are used. For a step by step demo, please watch this video.

Note: OutSync is compatible with Windows XP, Vista and Server 2003. It requires Outlook 2003 or 2007.

Setup:

1. Download and install OutSync.msi.
2. Launch OutSync from the Start Menu. Initial startup may take 1-2 minutes, please be patient.
3. Login to Facebook from within OutSync and wait until contacts are matched.
4. [Optional] Uncheck contacts you don’t want to sync.
5. Press the Sync button to update selected Outlook contacts from Facebook.

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Easy Contact is a finger friendly contacts manager alternative for your Windows Mobile device. Keep in mind it’s still in the beta stage, so there could be some bugs. Report any issues in the developer’s forum.

Main Features:

- Contact Manager
- SIM manager
- Calls manager
- Favorites manager
- Language customizable
- Skinnable
- Finger-friendly
- Intuitive

Known Problems:

- Contacts view by Company still very limited and very slow.
- Does not update the contacts when they are modified outside the application.

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Face Contact combines an intuitive finger-friendly visual interface, with the kind of indexing, sorting and editing features you would expect from a traditional Contacts application, so you can browse, communicate, and manage your contacts with easy from the Today screen of your Windows Mobile device. Because of its indexing and sorting capabilities, Face Contact works great with any number of contacts. Even contacts that don’t have a picture are as easy to find as in a text-only list.  If desired, Face Contact can completely replace the traditional text-only Contacts application.

• Start phone calls, send text messages and email, or browse a contact’s web page, directly from the Today screen.
• Perform all kinds of contact management operations, such as adding, editing or removing contacts without having to launch a separate application.
• Browse by contact’s picture or icon, so contacts are easy to spot even when rapidly scrolling through the list.
• Sort contacts by name or company, so you can reach any contact easily at its alphabetical position in the list.
• Jump instantly to any position in the contact list based on the contact’s initial.
• Integrated icon gallery with dozens of ready-to-use icons you can associate to your contacts.

          

You get a free 10 days evaluation period after will you will need to purchase a license for $14.95

[ thanks to PJ for the tip ]

Yota Phone makes the management and use of the contacts effortless, it allows making the calls and receiving them using the same interface, optimized for easy use with the touch screen. It look very finger friendly and seems to integrate well with TouchFlo from the looks of it.

Change Language – credit to yozgatg

• to change the language, just extract the YotaContactsSkin.zip and go into languages, u’ll find an xml file there
  eg: to get Italian copy the eng.xml file and rename it to ita.xml, then translate the words and save

If you have any trouble opening Yota Contacts install sdkcerts.cab and then soft reset.

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