Review: Handy Assistant for Windows Mobile

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Paragon Software has adult an interesting application designed to assistance Windows Mobile users manage their phone more than conveniently. Handy Assistant is described equally your personal mobile secretary that manages your incoming calls and profiles. The awarding gives yous the ability to constitute groups of contacts and define how your phone will react to each, record calls, block calls, and manage profiles. Follow the pause for more on this telephone management application.

Installation is no different than most Windows Applications, launch the .cab file and you're off and running. Once installed, Handy Assistant launches a fix-up wizard. The ten step process establishes your contact groups and how your phone volition handle each grouping. During the gear up-up procedure yous will also define your working hours which are used in the profile management.

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The prepare-up procedure tin can be long winded particularly if you lot have a large number of contacts. I didn't have the center to go through all 250 of my contacts so I skipped the contact group stage. Opting instead to label the contacts as they came up during the grade of a 24-hour interval/week/month/year.

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At that place are three default contact groups; private, work and personal but you can create boosted contact groups as needed. You also accept a "black list" feature to block incoming calls from specific numbers or contacts. I like this feature and can come across it come in handy should telemarketers or other unwanted callers stumble upon your jail cell number.

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Handy Banana has the option to use information technology's ain dialing screen that allows you to access the key features of the management awarding (east.g. notes, create appointment, send SMS, change contour, etc). The keypad shows the last number dialed and in hiding the keypad, you reveal the concluding 10 calls dialed and received. For those who are using the "Today" screen on your Windows Mobile phone there is a plug-in to show yous what profile yous are currently using and borer it takes yous to the application.

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Handy Assistant has a practiced option of options for how your phone responds to contacts including automatically recording a phone call. Your contour is managed with six default profiles plus yous tin can create additional profiles or edit the default profiles to better suit your needs.

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The recording option is an all or nothing type setting. Either you're recording every call or none. It would take been nice to have seen a "Record" option on the dialing screen options. While you can delete these records, it makes information technology a little cumbersome to have to sift through all the recordings, especially if you brand a lot of calls.

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One really overnice characteristic on Handy Assistant is the Over-the-air updates. Updates can't be pushed to your telephone but if y'all hear rumors that an update is bachelor, all you lot have to do is pull up the carte and cull "bank check for updates".

Overall Impression

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I've been using Handy Banana for a few days now and I'm finding it to be a feature rich application to manage your contacts and telephone settings. It is a little cumbersome to navigate effectually but with virtually feature rich applications, the more than you use it the more familiar you lot become with it. The more I use it, the more than I brainstorm to similar it.

The initial set-upward wizard is a big aid but tin be time consuming if you lot accept a lot of contacts. I similar the record characteristic but wish you could self-initiate recording calls instead of recording all your phone calls. The recording function does come in handy when you least expect it. If your wife or pregnant other calls y'all with marching orders and you forget them, you tin can ever replay the conversation.

A trial version of Handy Assistant is available just in case you have your doubts but if you're looking for something to help manage your phone's profiles and contacts, Handy Banana might be but what your looking for.