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June 23, 2005
Mobile Apps
Here are two mobile applications you are most likely to have built in with your handset already. The mobile is a great communication device, and these two applications sort of extend the value-added. They both use your address book.
ReMatr (read: re-mater) hooks you up with old contacts.
You've kept filling your Outlook Contacts for years now. About half of those contacts are one-offs that lie way back, but hey, you never know. And sometimes, you don't even know who the person is any more.
You import all of your contacts into your mobile. You don't activate the keyboard lock. In your pocket, as you walk along, your mobile will most likely select some random old contact and dial the number. As people keep their mobile numbers, they remain reachable. Their phone rings. They pick up and all they hear is the Chrr Chrrr of the phone inside your pocket. As they will most definitely have deleted your number (or never imported it), they ring back, intrigued.
And you've hooked up with someone from your past.
The other application is:
(Voice Connector)
This one's easy and powerful: You've got voice dial. You mention that person's name whilst bitching about them. The phone auto-dials (after all, that's what you want it to do). The other person listens with great interest to all the niceties you have to say.
PS Feel free to use the above brand names if you like of if they are not taken yet.
Posted by Irakli at June 23, 2005 08:37 PM
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