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Change your Treo Experience with UltimatePhone for Palm OS

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By: pdaBlast! Staff
August 06, 2008
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Are you bored by your Palm OS smartphone's interface? After all these years you would think the folks at Palm would at least spruce up their OS a bit, but here we sit with the same boring (although fast & effective) Palm OS.

UtlitmatePhone by GX5 brings an all new experience to the Palm Treo and Centro smartphones. It is a phone application with call logs and photo speed dials, application launcher, SMS sender and more.

Features:

  • Instant access to Photo Contacts
  • Store Photo Contacts by category
  • Speed SMSing
  • Reject by SMS
  • Customizeable interface
  • Call Duration Information
  • Simultaneous Search and Dial
  • Rapid Web Searching


    Installation
    I installed UltimatePhone on both a Treo 700p and a Palm Centro. On both devices the program loaded easily and without incident. You can set UltimatePhone to automatically come up when you hit the phone button, thereby giving you a totally new experience on your phone. It's almost like having a new operating system installed.

    Photo Contacts
    After the install it was time to setup my photo contacts. Because I already have photos attached to my contact records, this process was simple. I just went into the UltimatePhone settings and setup about 15 contacts with photos. Now when I hit the phone button on my Centro, a screen comes up with 9 of my important contact's photos, and I can scroll through the other six. Very slick! I just tap a photo and my phone calls my contact.

    UltimatePhone also allows you to setup shortcuts to your applications. You can use it as an application launcher for your most used apps. Instead of having to click over to Palm's application launcher, just do it all from within UltimatePhone.





    Customization
    The best part about UltimatePhone is the level of customization. UltimatePhone gives you so many options for customizations you can make the screen look how you want it to look. I loaded on my own pictures to use as background and they look so crisp and vibrant in UltimatePhone. It really looks like I have a brand new operating system on my Treo now. The experience is totally different from the boring Palm OS Phone application. I have it setup to show me the current time, battery level, number of unread emails, and my photo contacts.

    UltimatePhone also has replacement Call Logs, Contact cards, and even a Dial Pad if you want to use them. UltimatePhone can also reject a call using a SMS message with its own SMS interface.




    Web 2.0
    If you hit the Web link in UltimatePhone you are taken to a page with about 12 of the latest Web 2.0 applications. Whethere it's Facebook, CNN, engadget or ESPN, you're just a click away from their Web 2.0 app. You can also use UltimatePhone's web search field to search Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, and more.



    Conclusion
    The current Palm OS experience is old and boring. UltimatePhone brings a refreshing new experience that makes using your Palm OS smartphone a pleasure. UltimatePhone's powerful interface produces rich and vibrant graphics, screen transitions and transparency effects. Don't even think about it. For $19.95 this software is a deal. Download UltimatePhone at the link below and give your Treo or Centro a facelift.


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    I know this mini review sounds like a sales pitch but it's not. We're just really sold on this application and highly recommend it. This one is a pdaBlast! Top Pick!






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