Application description

phoneAlarm - Your complete communication center, never overlook a missed call, voicemail, email or SMS again. Plus 10 powerful Windows Mobile Phone profiles to control all your important settings

Supports Windows Mobile Phone 5.0, WM 6.0 and WM 6.1 Windows Mobile Phone Edition

phoneAlarm is a Today screen plugin - giving you total control over your Windows Mobile Phone Windows Mobile Phone. Never miss an important call, SMS or email again. Automatically switch profiles and quickly access Inbox, call history and control the state of bluetooth directly from the Today screen. Optimised for one-handed and in-car use.

15 day free trial version available.

phoneAlarm is Winner for second year in a row in the Windows Mobile Phone & PocketPC Magazine Best Software awards 2007 & 2008

phoneAlarm Key Features

• Provides repeating alarms on new SMS, Email, missed calls & voice messages
• 10 Custom Windows Mobile Phone profiles with manual / time-based automatic switching.
• Alarm notification on weak battery and Windows Mobile Phone signal
• Customise sound, volume and options for each alarm type in each profile
• Custom alerts based on email / SMS sender or subject
• Mute Windows Mobile Phone and Windows Mobile Phone volume
• Skinnable user interface
• Bluetooth and Flight mode control via profiles (also for Widcomm/Broadcomm stack)
• Auto-profile change on 'ActiveSync' and 'Power - no ActiveSync'
• 1-hand skin navigation and quick-dialer for last 10 numbers
• Icons provide direct access to Inbox, missed call history etc.
• Task-switcher pop-up to close running applications
• Option to cycle radio (off/on) to change user on dual SIM
• Billing calculation - keep track of your Windows Mobile Phone costs
• Detailed GPRS volume tracking
• Location-based information (change profile dependent on current location!)
• Call and SMS forwarding support in each profile
• WLAN control via profiles
• Skin rotator element to display actual information
• English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Greek, Russian, Chinese and Japanese user interface
• Supports VGA display
• Optimised for fast performance and maximum platform support
• Simple installation

New/Fixed in v2.30 [Build 384] (18th September 2009)

• WM 6.5 support
• Host application to run phoneAlarm without Today screen plugin
• screenLock, red/green buttons working in call
• Omnia II ringtone support
• Bluetooth support fixed for Touch Pro 2
• Add support for 30 application links (incr. from 20)
• Support added for 2-row launcher bar
• Auto-answer fixed for devices that don't receive ring notification correctly
• Issue with 3rd party ringtone and Photo-Contacts Pro fixed
• Support larger fonts on menus
• Move Application links to Extras tab

Fixed / New in v2.21 [Build 363] (15th June 2009)

• screenLock component added to provide intelligent Windows Mobile Phone locking, but still let you see Today Screen
• New profile rule switch - on " " (regardless of whether ActiveSync is running or not)
• New option to specify the profile to activate after automatic switch ends
• Option "escalate" for vibrate pattern in "Power User" settings
• Support new TouchFlo3D 2 interface (Titanium)
• 2G / 3G bandswitch via profile supported on most newer HTC devices
• Support for 320 x 320 screen improved
• Samsung Epix supported for backlight and battery state
• Treo Pro improvement for beacon (LED) flashing to save power
• Flexmail email alarm optionally activated only for specific accounts
• Allow hidden profiles to optionally still be used for automatic switching
• Support email alarms for Lotus Notes Traveler
• Weather service synchronising now more reliable when in cradle
• PNG support for 24/32 bit alpha-blended skin icons
• Faster loading of Settings
• Numerous minor display/usability improvements
• Command-line option to toggle speaker Windows Mobile Phone on/off

Fixed / New in v2.14 [Build 340] (12th February 2009)

• Caching of skins supported for fast tab/rotate switching
• Weather plugin now also supports Accuweather service (as used by HTC Touch-Flo)
• Custom alarm repeat sounds (diff. to first alert sound) for each alarm type (in "Power User" settings)
• Scroll-bar issue on Today-screen fixed
• Voicemail on some Treo devices (with Sprint and Verizon) fixed
• Verizon Visual Voicemail support added
• Hotmail push-email now supported
• Weather layout improved for temperatures
• Faster loading of Manila (Touch-Flo3D) and support for Touch-Flo2D on some devices
• SIM unlock improved
• Option to include skins in backup/restore
• Copy profile settings supports more options
• Optional alarm when battery fully charged
• Profile / Weather popup menus can now be compressed so that scrolling is not necessary
• Free minutes in billing fixed
• Billing / Dial Favorites logic improved for devices which don't sort call log automatically
• More PhotoLink Images (upto 16)
• Free SMS in scroller now shown as -ve number if all SMS used (shows how many SMS must be paid for)
• Free data volume remaining in scroller
• Show time since last soft-reset in scroller
• Set custom SIP in landscape mode

v2.00 [Build 280] (14th June 2008)

• 3 new profiles (10 in total)
• WM 6.1 support
• New, simpler location group editor
• Rules Engine to allow complex profile switching control (and priority for rules)
• Profile switching on specific network
• GPS support for location
• Data completely disabled per profile (for roaming etc.)
• Instant Messaging repeating alarms (for MSN Messenger, Skype, Palringo, IM+, Agile Messenger, Anastasia, Jive Talk)
• Photo-dialer plugin
• Application Link plugin (launcher)
• Email Auto-Sync time per profile
• Billing charges to 4 decimal places
• Scroller redesign, faster and order items on scroller (and uses less CPU)
• Custom Links for 3rd party applications
• More tabs supported for skins (5 tabs now supported)
• Many new skin options including Analog Clock
• Skins now version independent - all v1.62+ skins will always work correctly with v2.0 and future versions
• Treo InCall volume control working
• Text AND graphic option on profile menu
• WLAN / Bluetooth / VoiceCommand state icons
• QVGA skins now work on VGA devices (and VGA skins on QVGA)
• Expanded and Improved Voice Command support
• Alarm component, for repeating alarms and auto-softreset
• Improved cost and data volume tracking
• Custom LED color / vibrate pattern per alarm
• Special LED support for i780
• ClearType Font support in skin
• AppToDate support for over-the-air automatic updates
• and much much more...

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