aTAKEphONE 1.53
"Smart telephony on your Android"

Product highlights

TAKEphONE will change the way you use your phone to
make calls - no more having to open the G1 keyboard to
search for contacts, or fiddling with the tiny on-screen
keyboard buttons, fast & easy access to all your favorites,
call-log and even a dial-by-photo feature !

- Search company (!) and notes (!) fields.

- Show call history for a contact/number.

- Search (filter) call log list by text.

- Jump to a specific date in the call log.

- Schedule calls as entries in your Calendar.

- Coming soon: send contact details via SMS (as vCards) using avCards.



To purchase aTAKEphONE from the Android Market on your device, you can use "Barcode Scanner" application to scan this barcode:




*** Note to users upgrading from earlier versions: ***

We had to change the registration mechanism to protect us from piracy.
As a result - your current reg. code is no longer valid.
Please ontact us via email, and we'll send you a new one asap.



*** New in 1.53 ***

- Clearing missed call/s icon - added a fix so it now works..

- Scroll list down - hides keypad.

- Fix for "smart sort" (sort results by freq of calls) for Samsung S2 (need to turn this on in "General" settings).

- Added more accented characters search options.

- *** Changed icon ***

- Better search algorithm

- Added option to show call log when search empty.


*** New in 1.47 ***

- Fixed menu graphics for Gingerbread (Android 2.3.3).

- Clearing missed call/s icon no longer works on Gingerbread (Android 2.3.3), so restored "go to system call log" menu option.

- Fixed numbers search.


*** New in 1.46 ***

- Fixed a bug with landscape mode in "Find/Dial" screen.

- When scheduling calls - add number to 'description' field, too.


*** New in 1.45 ***

- Support for Latin accents (for French, German, etc.).


*** New in 1.44 ***

- More search speed - moved to total SQL.

- Added menu option to toggle qwerty & 12 button keypads.


*** New in 1.43 ***

- Fix for an issue with calls history.


*** New in 1.42 ***

- Added option to show contacts & i-Bar when search is empty.

- Better calls history for a contact.

- Smaller application size (to improve loading speed).


*** New in 1.40 ***

- Adopt display to tablet devices.

- Option for QWERTY keyboard (check out "Find/Dial" tab section in preferences, need to hide T9 keypad to use the qwerty keyboard).

- Send contact from call log details, too.

- Purge filtered calls from call log (to allow deleting all calls to a contact).

- Greek language search.

- Droid Pro keyboard fix.


*** New in 1.28 ***

- Fix for FC searching numbers, fix for searching "F-I-L".


*** New in 1.27 ***

- Speed improvements, Telephony settings, some fixes.


*** New in 1.25 ***

- Fixes various issues.


*** New in 1.24 ***

- Fixes for Xperia X10 & OS 2.2.

- Hide keypad (drag down).

- Long tap a contact field to copy.

- Many more tweaks.


*** New in 1.23 ***

- Numbers lookup.

- Transparent skin.

- Handle 'x' in numbers.

- Many more tweaks.


*** New in 1.22 ***

- Automatically clears 'Missed call/s' notification.

- Added option (see application settings) to show a landscape keypad even when hardware keyboard is closed (for use in car cradles).

- Added option to show a 'Call' button at the bottom (on the current selected tab) to make calling easier (off by default, turn on in settings).

- Added option to move the 'BkSp' button down to the keypad to make using it easier (off by default, turn on in settings).

- Many more tweaks.

*** Read reviews here... ***


"Find/Dial" tab:

- Large (and I mean LARGE) on-screen buttons, always on
  screen at the start ("Search") screen.

- Tap a phone number using those large buttons to manually
  dial it or to add it to an existing/new contact.

- Search for contact in a super fast & sophisticated way -
  using a T9-like mechanism (e.g. to search for "John" simply
  tap the "JKL", "MNO", "GHI", "MNO" buttons).

- Search words within fields, or even free text
  within words.

- Even more - you can use the "...and..." button (tap & HOLD
  the '*' button) to combine fields (e.g. enter "jo...and...do"
  to search for "John Doe").

- You can even speed-dial the first 9 favorite entries of
  TAKEphONE right from the main screen by tapping &
  holding the 1-9 on-screen button.

- Hot: you can have all favorites with pictures show up
  in the main screen for 'Dial by photo' operation.


"Speed Dial" tab:

- Unlimited favorite entries arranged in pages of 5x2
  (or 3x3 in landscape mode) large buttons for easy dialing.

- Tap and HOLD a button to open functions menu -
  allowing dialing of other phone fields for that contact,
  or starting an SMS message, etc.

- Add entries from the main "Find/Dial" tab.

- You can import all your built-in favorites from the menu.

"Recents" tab:

- A list of the last outgoing calls for easy redialing.

- Ordered so that the last made call is always on top.

- More features (such as filtering, going to a specific
  day etc.) to come.

TAKEphONE makes using your device as a phone as
fast & easy as it can be.


You can get the user-manual here: ZIP file    PDF file    online (HTML)