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Version Number: 6.0
^{(Changes from Version 5.50)}

Release Date: Mar-4-2010

* An updated Visual Users' Guide (PDF) is packaged with the installation.

New Features

• Advanced smooth scrolling functionality with increased speed
  Use your finger to slide contacts up/down to scroll, slide right to quickly see Favorite contacts, slide left to see a new page showing your categories with contact pictures

• New Category View with pictures
  Sliding the screen from right-to-left will open a new page showing all of your contact categories with small pictures of contacts in those categories, allowing you to quickly see which contacts are in each category and easily switch to a desired category

• UI enhancements for quicker operation with your finger
  Larger buttons at the bottom of the screen for switching to Favorites, switching Categories and the Letter Bar.

• Added Windows Phone/Windows Mobile 6.5.3 compatibility

• Enhanced support for latest devices

Enhancements

• Enhanced Photo Caller ID compatibility with latest devices - Touch PRO2, Imagio, Fuze, Omnia 2, HD2, etc.

• HTC Sense compatibility - ability to enable/disable handling of All People tab, ability to enable/disable HTC sense from Options screen

• Call Filtering enhancements for latest devices for Reject and HangUp - Touch PRO2, Imagio, Omnia 2, HD2, etc.

• Enhancements for Bluetooth on/off switching via a profile on some devices

• Fix for default Email tone not working on some devices

• Fix for SMS tones sometimes not working on some devices

• Many other minor enhancements

Screenshots of new version 6.0

Black Tricolor Theme, Tile View showing a category Friends 2

Black Tricolor Theme, Tile View showing the new Category View with pictures

* Two short sounds and one High Quality ringtone are bundled free with Photo Contacts PRO - they are stored in the "\Windows\!px_ringtones" folder on the phone for easy assignment as a contact ringtone or a distinctive SMS tone.

* As of version 5.11, one extra loud ringtone and one extra loud SMS tone are also bundled and stored in the \Windows folder (px_*.mp3). They are used for the Extra Loud profile.

Version Number: 5.50
^{(Changes from Version 5.11)}

Release Date: 12-21-2009

* An updated Visual Users' Guide (PDF) is packaged with the installation.

New Features

• Smooth Scrolling and finger friendly enhancements
  Use your finger to scroll through contacts with contact pictures, make calls easily and send quick-SMS messages!

• Unknown Number Location ID
  During an incoming call, Photo Contacts PRO will show you where the Unknown Caller is calling you from (eg. Boston, MA). The program will decode the location based on the incoming area code.

• Business Photo Caller ID with Slide-to-Answer
  Three new Caller ID modes prevent inadvertent screen presses during an incoming call. Photo Contacts PRO shows you a large picture of the caller as well as their Company Name, Title and telephone number.
  Now featuring easy to use Slide-to-Answer, Slide-to-Ignore as well as call Silence, Speakerphone Answer and Reject with SMS features, all during an incoming call.

• Distinctive Email Tones with VIP Email notifications
  Assign distinctive sounds to contacts for new email notifications. A custom sound will notify you when you get an email from a specific person. A custom vibration will alert you when you get an email from an important person (eg. your Boss, your Wife, the President).

• Windows Phone/Windows Mobile 6.5 compatibility and customizations for latest phones
  The new version includes customizations for latest devices such as HTC Touch PRO2, HTC Imagio, AT&T Pure, HTC Diamond 2, Sony Ericsson Xperia X2, HTC HD2, LG eXpo, HTC Tilt 2, Samsung Intrepid, Samsung Omnia 2, Samsung Omnia Lite, and others.

• Full Integration with HTC TouchFlo
  Photo Contacts PRO will place a Profile Picker button on the bottom of the phone’s screen for easy access to Call Blocking and Automatic Profiles and quick Dialing and SMS. It will also integrate with the All Contacts button in TouchFlo.

• Added International language support for Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese and French Canadian. Ability to easily add new languages by editing a text-file. Contact us if you'd like to translate Photo Contacts PRO into your native language!

Enhancements

• Support for non-standard main menu font sizes

• Decreased delay for tap-and-hold to open Photo Contacts PRO in Profile Picker button making it easier to open the program from the Today Screen

• Removed Today Screen Enhancements option at first start - you can enable the Today Plugin on Tools>Options

• SMS Picture support on latest devices

• Support for All Contacts button on latest devices

• Fix for automatic and manual Bluetooth toggling on Touch PRO2 and other new devices

• Fix for Options screen on devices with 320x320 screen resolutions (eg. Treo PRO)

• Fix for crash in Detail View>All Fields

• Fix for address view on 320x320 devices

• Support for large soft-keyboards in Call Dialog (for Quick-SMS)

• Customization for Call Filtering/Hang Up functionality on Touch PRO2 and other new devices

• Tapping anywhere on the Category/Text Filter bar (middle bottom of main view,  (showing active Text/Category) will clear the filter. This will make it easier to clear a contact search with your finger

• Support for disabling/enabling Samsung Omnia Widget plugin in Options

• Graphical enhancements for themes

• New Splash screen

• Many other minor enhancements

Screenshots of new version 5.50

Business Blue Theme in WVGA Hi-Resolution (480x800)  »  Hi-res image	Simple Slider Photo Caller ID mode
Business Dual Slider Photo Caller ID mode	Simple Slider with Silencer Photo Caller ID mode

* Two short sounds and one High Quality ringtone are bundled free with Photo Contacts PRO - they are stored in the "\Windows\!px_ringtones" folder on the phone for easy assignment as a contact ringtone or a distinctive SMS tone.

* As of version 5.11, one extra loud ringtone and one extra loud SMS tone are also bundled and stored in the \Windows folder (px_*.mp3). They are used for the Extra Loud profile.

Version Number: 5.11
^{(Changes from Version 5.10)}

Release Date: 3-9-2009

* An updated Visual Users' Guide (PDF) is packaged with the installation.

New Features

• Photo Contacts PRO has added International language support and has been translated to French, Italian, German and Spanish with ability to easily add new languages by editing a text-file.

• Easily open Photo Contacts PRO by tapping and holding on the Profile Picker button on the Today screen

• Added new Extra Loud profile bundled with a custom super-loud ringtone and SMS tone to be used in noisy environments

Enhancements

• Enhancements specific to Samsung Omnia for installation, Caller ID

• Enhancements specific to Palm Treo 700/800w for installation if Un-Clutter today screen option is checked

• Added support for using accented characters when searching contacts using the Intelligent Search keypad

• Fix for Large Text/Large Picture Caller ID not showing properly on 320x320 resolutions

• Fix for program not opening after being closed while in Icon View

• Fix for category selection combo-box on Touch HD

• Increased image size limit when assigning/adjusting photos - large digital camera photos can now be used when assigning pictures (limited by phone's memory)

• Switched to higher photo save resolution for assigning photos for clearer pictures, added 400x400 option

• Program will not default to Business caller id mode if Large Text is selected and there is no picture, it will stay at Large Text

• Fix for removing 0 prefix when sending SMS

• Other minor enhancements

* Two short sounds and one High Quality ringtone are bundled free with Photo Contacts PRO - they are stored in the "\Windows\!px_ringtones" folder on the phone for easy assignment as a contact ringtone or a distinctive SMS tone.

* As of version 5.11, one extra loud ringtone and one extra loud SMS tone are also bundled and stored in the \Windows folder (px_*.mp3). They are used for the Extra Loud profile.

Version Number: 5.10
^{(Changes from Version 5.09)}

Release Date: 11-26-2008

* An updated Visual Users' Guide (PDF) is packaged with the installation.

New Features

• NEW Support for Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, Verizon HTC Touch PRO, AT&T Fuze, Alltel HTC Diamond/Touch PRO, Treo 800w, Treo PRO, HTC Diamond, HTC Touch HD, HTC Touch PRO, Sprint Diamond, Sprint Touch PRO, Samsung Omnia, Toshiba g900, HTC Touch 3G, Samsung Epix, Samsung Saga, LG Incite

• NEW Profile Picker button and on-screen touchable menus enable you to quickly switch phone profiles with your finger whether you use TouchFlo or the regular Windows Mobile Today screen. The profile picker button will also show you which phone profile is currently active.

• NEW Added full support for VGA (480x640), WVGA (480x800), Square QVGA (320x320) and WQVGA (240x400) resolutions

• Full support for Full Screen Photo Caller ID, SMS Tones and SMS Photo notifications on HTC Diamond, HTC Touch PRO, HTC Touch HD, Xperia X1

• Full support for Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 and its 480x800 screen resolution

• Today Screen Plugin support for VGA, WVGA and square QVGA resolutions

• New setup procedure allowing you to pick a Theme, enable Home Screen Enhancements and Un-clutter the Today screen at startup

• Easy way to pick a pre-defined temporary timed profile with the Profile Picker (i.e. Silent for 2 hours, Loud for 30 minutes)

• Integration of Profile Picker button and All Contacts button with TouchFlo 3D

• Support for Profile Picker button on Xperia X1 and its Panel interface

• Updated Business Photo Caller ID - improved text visibility with shadows, increased button tappable area, increased picture size

• Photo Contacts PRO can now un-clutter the Windows Mobile Today Screen by removing un-necessary sections/plugins

• Ability to switch profiles with command line parameters

• New hi-resolution themes

Enhancements

• Fixed issue where Ignore/forwarding would not immediately send call to voicemail on some devices when a data connection is active

• Redesigned buttons for Today Screen plugin, hi-res support

• Samsung Omnia i900 vibration support for SMS tones

• Recipient name is added to sent SMS messages

• Enhancements for Automatic Profiles

• New program icons

• Enhanced category ringtone support

• Filter #777 in recent calls

• Many other minor enhancements

Screenshots of new version 5.10

Two short sounds and one High Quality ringtone are now bundled free with Photo Contacts PRO - they are stored in the "\Windows\!px_ringtones" folder on the phone for easy assignment as a contact ringtone or a distinctive SMS tone.

Version Number: 5.09
^{(Changes from Version 5.08)}

Release Date: 8-6-2008

* An updated Visual Users' Guide (PDF) is packaged with the installation.

New Features

• Many new Themes/Skins that personalize the look and feel of Photo Contacts PRO. The user can select from more than 15 skins (click here to view).

  • New Business skins (Black, Blue, Pink, Purple, Grey, Silver)

  • Halloween/USA/Redmoon themes

  • New All Black/high contrast skins

  • Colors can now be fully customized in the program in all views, for dialing, SMS sending and Caller ID

  • Theme Picker letting you visually pick the skin/theme Photo Contacts PRO uses (Tools>Options)

• Two new Photo Caller ID modes:

  • Large Text Photo Caller ID uses very large text for the name, company and number of the caller for extra easy readability

  • Large Photo Caller ID shows a picture fully covering the screen during an incoming call.

• Advanced SMS Answering Machine

  • SMS Answer mode will send an SMS to the caller in case of a missed call

  • Predefined SMS Answer messages - easily select a profile with SMS Answering on the Today screen and select a predefined response message

• Easily assign Family, Friends and other categories to contacts - eg. select a contact and tap Contact>Favorites>Family

• Filtering of SMS per contact - SMS tone will be silent if the message is received from a contact that is blocked by Reject, Hangup or silent Call Filter.

• Ability to turn phone radio on/off (flight mode) using an automatic or a temporary profile

• .m4a Ringtone support

• Easily enable/disable Bluetooth on your Today screen - tap and hold on the battery icon in Photo Contacts PRO's plugin

• Verizon Samsung i760 customizations

• 480x800 display resolution support

Enhancements

• Ringtone and SMS preview/play enhancements - changed to using sound API for playing sounds on WM6 devices

• Added middle name support; Middle name shown in Detail View; middle initial shown in other views

• Category filter is automatically cleared when a letter is pressed

• Contact search is automatically cleared after dialing a contact

• Today plugin font size adjustments for higher resolution devices

• Normal (SMS Answer) profile added to predefined profiles

• Flight Mode profile added to predefined profiles

• Fixed SMS vibrating not stopping on some devices

• Allows * character to be used for redialing from Today Screen

• Default theme is now Business Blue

• When on phone, short beep is used to notify user of an incoming SMS

• If the user assigns a default contact picture in the Photo Manager, that picture is used for a default caller ID image

• Photo Contacts PRO will automatically restart itself if it is closed by the system due to a low memory condition

• Fixed picture zoom issue in detail view

• Automatically adds Photo Contacts PRO to the Task Manager exclusion list on HTC devices

• Usage Tips will pop up when the program is first run

• Many other minor enhancements

Screenshots of new version 5.09

Two short sounds and one High Quality ringtone are now bundled free with Photo Contacts PRO - they are stored in the "\Windows\!px_ringtones" folder on the phone for easy assignment as a contact ringtone or a distinctive SMS tone.

Version Number: 5.08
^{(Changes from Version 5.07)}

Release Date: 12-10-2007

New Features

• Major User Interface Redesign - Intelligent Search Keypad, Vertical Letter Bar and Favorite Contacts button make it easier than ever to find contacts

  • Intelligent Search Keypad allows you to quickly find contacts with only a few finger presses

  • Favorite Contacts Button makes speed dialing a breeze

  • Vertical Letter Bar allows you to jump to contacts starting with a desired letter quickly by sliding your finger

• Updates to automatic profile switching with recurring appointments

• Added support for SMS "message sent" confirmation and saving of SMS messages to Sent folder

• Automatic Profile switching based on the subject of a meeting

• The program now automatically imports your Outlook contact pictures at first start (but does not replace existing Photo Contacts pictures)

• Call Filtering/Blocking of a contact can be applied to all profiles automatically

• Filtering of distinctive SMS tone per contact - sound normally played for incoming SMS will be silent if the message is received from a contact that is blocked by Reject or HangUp filters

Enhancements

• Added "SMS Auto Answer" and "HangUp Unknown" to list of preloaded profiles

• Contact sorting enhancement - contacts with only a company name, or only first/last name defined are sorted inline with regular contacts

• Added support for automatically switching Bluetooth ON/OFF using a profile on HP 6515 (Widcomm bluetooth stack)

• When a call filter is applied to a contact the BlockList_PC category is assigned to the contact, automatically grouping all blocked contacts

• Blocks 777 and 86 from showing up in the Recent Calls list on some devices

• Added support for umlauts

• Included a second short sound that can be used as a distinctive SMS tone

• Other enhancements

Screenshots of new version 5.08
 

Two short sounds and one High Quality ringtone are now bundled free with Photo Contacts PRO - they are stored in the \Windows\!px_ringtones folder on the phone for easy assignment as a contact ringtone or a distinctive sms sound.

Version Number: 5.07
^{(Changes from Version 5.06)}

Release Date: 9-04-2007

New Features

• Added additional Meeting Triggers in Automatic Profiles - Up to 8 Meeting triggers are now supported allowing you to configure the phone to automatically switch profiles based on categories defined in meetings in your calendar

• Bluetooth can be enabled/disabled via a profile, temporary profile or an automatic profile saving you precious battery power

• Added .mp3d and .mp3-drm as valid ringtone extensions allowing DRM protected ringtones to be assigned to contacts

Enhancements

• Fixed issue affecting internet connections (GPRS) on some devices

• Fixed issue related to Simple theme (cannot initialize message)

• Fixed issue related to call dialog

• Today Screen Plugin loading enhancements

• Other enhancements

Screenshots of new version

Automatic Profile Manager

Version Number: 5.06
^{(Changes from Version 5.02)}

Release Date: 6-25-2007

New Features

• Full Screen Photo Caller ID now features 3 new buttons:

  - Silence (silence an incoming call without sending it to voicemail)

  - Speakerphone Answer (answer the call and automatically enable the speakerphone)

  - Reject with SMS (send the call to voicemail and send a quick SMS text message to the caller)

• Ability to view and edit contact notes in Photo Contacts PRO

• Customize incoming caller id number formatting for international users

Enhancements

• Today Screen Plugin enhancements and memory optimization

• Outlook pictures are updated when pictures are assigned/adjusted in Photo Contacts PRO

• Contact editing enhancements for some WM5 devices

• Photos assigned to categories are now shown when browsing contacts

• Option to enable/disable Today plugin sections inside the program

• Support for international SMS numbers

• Enhancements for distinctive SMS

• Various minor enhancements and optimizations

Screenshots of new version

Full Screen Photo Caller ID with Silence, Speakerphone and Reject+SMS buttons

 
Business Photo Caller ID with Silence, Speakerphone and Reject+SMS buttons

Version Number: 5.02
^{(Changes from Version 5.01)}

Release Date: 4-23-2007

Enhancements

• Today Plugin enhancements

• New icons added to Today Screen Plugin to show icons for calls that are automatically rejected or hanged up by the call filter

• Updates related to contact change notifications and Hangup call filter on some WM5 devices

• Various other minor enhancements

• Updated Visual Users Guide

Version Number: 5.0,5.01 - Major New Release
^{(Changes from Version 4.03)}

Release Date: 4-18-2007

* An updated Visual Users' Guide (PDF) is packaged with the installation.

New Features

• Windows Mobile 5, Windows Mobile 6 and Pocket PC 2003/SE support

• Today Screen Plugin - displays Favorite Contacts with pictures, Recent Caller pictures, shows Active Profile information and Battery and device Memory status

• Fully integrated Scheduled, Automatic and Temporary Timed Profiles

• Profile Scheduler - take full control of the phone and incoming calls by creating a schedule that automatically switches phone profiles based on hours, days, calendar.

• Automatic Profiles detect meetings and appointments and automatically switch profiles when appropriate

• Timed Temporary Profiles enable you to quickly switch to a certain profile temporarily (for 2 hours when in a cinema for example), automatically switching back after the time passes. They also feature a Ringtone/SMS tone override enabling you to utilize an extra loud ring when active.

• Complete Privacy - New call filter HangUp feature allows you to automatically Hang Up undesirable callers or unknown or private numbers (without sending them to voicemail)

• SMS Answering Machine integrated with profiles - automatically Reject and send an SMS message to callers notifying them you're busy

• Distinctive SMS Tones with Manager - know exactly who the sender is when you get an SMS message - distinctive SMS sounds can be applied to individual contacts, groups or unknown senders

• SMS Picture ID - shows a picture of the SMS sender when an SMS message is received

• Profiles can change ringtones and SMS tones with sound overrides

• Profiles control incoming call volume as well as SMS message and system volume

• Enhanced Speed Dial window allows you to quickly send or respond with custom or pre-defined SMS messages - simply double tap on a contact picture

• Photo Manager enables you to assign pictures to contacts, contact groups (categories) and unknown/private callers for Photo Caller ID and SMS Picture ID purposes

Enhancements

• Support for password protection and device lock with Full Screen and Business Photo Caller ID

• Ability to import Outlook pictures for use in Photo Contacts PRO

• Ability to assign the Contacts soft-button to open Photo Contacts PRO

• Optimized device memory usage with the option to enable/disable image caching

• Icons can be assigned to profiles

• Many Other enhancements and UI improvements including a glowing border effect

• New sample pictures and an alphabet map allowing large letters to be easily assigned as contact pictures included in the package

Screenshots of new version

Version Number: 4.03
^{(Changes from Version 4.01)}

Release Date: 10-09-2006

New Features

• Added Company Sort mode - contacts can now be sorted by company name

Enhancements

• HTC TyTn / Cingular 8525 support

• Fixed issue with private/unknown calls on HP6500 series devices

• Various minor enhancements and UI improvements

• Updated Visual Users Guide, FAQ included with installation package

Version Number: 4.01
^{(Changes from Version 4.00)}

Release Date: 02-13-2006

New Features

• Added support for Treo 700w

• Enhancements to joystick navigation

Enhancements

• Left-Right joystick buttons cycle through contact categories in page mode

• Various minor enhancements

Version Number: 4.0 - Major New Release
^{(Changes from Version 3.2)}

Release Date: 12-23-2005

* A new Users' Guide (PDF) is now packaged with the installation. Also, full Quick Help is now available in the program.

New Features

• Windows Mobile 5 compatible

• Fully integrated per contact and per category Call Filtering allows users to specify
  the following settings to incoming calls:
  1. Silent - the call is permitted to come through but the ring is silent (blue x icon)
  2. Vibrate - the phone vibrates (V icon)
  3. Reject - the call is automatically rejected (red x icon) and sent to voicemail (if available)
  4. Bypass - the call is allowed to bypass the call filter in case of a default setting

• Fully customizable Phone Profiles let the user group and customize call filtering, ring volume and ring type settings.

• Ability to set call filter to reject/silent/vibrate for Unknown callers

• Ability to set call filter to reject/silent/vibrate for Private callers

• Ability to specify Ring Volume and Ring Type settings per Profile

• Today screen Tray Icon lets the user change the call filter profile fast via single tap
  or call up Photo Contacts PRO via tap-and-hold

• Ability to specify a distinctive ring tone for Unknown callers

• Ability to specify a distinctive ring tone for Private callers

• Support for contact search and filtering via hardware keyboard. Start typing and Photo Contacts PRO
  filters contacts.

• Enhanced operation when ringtones are stored on memory cards

• New engine for caller id number matching for international users (now supports short and long matching)

• Ringtone, Call Filter and program Options are preserved if the program is re-installed or upgraded

• New Call Dialog with added ability to apply skins

• New Answer/Ignore buttons that can be skinned

• Buttons for easy clearing of Category or Text search filters

• Added in-program Quick Help

Enhancements

• Added new Windows Mobile 5 theme!

• Enhanced contact search/filter capabilities via soft keyboard (SIP)

• Company name is shown if First/Last names are not defined for a contact

• Decreased overall on-device application size to <1MB

• Optimized general program memory usage

• Enhanced support for landscape operation

• Added option to bypass Call Dialog if only one number present

• Added option to assign the hardware Action button on the device to Dial

• Various other enhancements

Version Number: 3.2
^{(Changes from Version 3.01)}

Release Date: 09-02-2005

New Features

• Added support for Square Screen devices with 240x240 resolution (such as HP h6500 series, HP h6515)

• Added support for landscape mode operation on 240x320 devices

• Business Photo Caller ID - a new Photo Caller ID mode shows the Picture, Name, Company and Title of the incoming caller

• Photo Caller ID preview

• New Today Screen tray icon makes calling up Photo Contacts PRO easy

• Silent ring tone bundled with the program lets you filter out un-wanted callers (ringtone stored in "\My Documents\Ringtones" folder)

Enhancements

• Extra Large text size shows easily readable caller id information if picture is not assigned to a contact

• If only one phone number is defined for a contact, double tap on the picture will immediately place the call

• Other smaller enhancements

Version Number: 3.01
^{(Changes from Version 3.0)}

Release Date: 07-25-2005

New Features

• Added 2 new themes! Photo Contacts PRO now includes the awesome Dark Side theme (black) and the new Green Shadow theme

• Added support for variable caller id bubbles for some devices (for "Standard Picture" Photo Caller ID)

• Added support for assigning .qcp files as ring tones (for devices that support this format)

• Ability to enable/disable Photo Caller ID separately from the Distinctive Ring Tone engine

Enhancements

• Improved support for auto-start on new Pocket PC Phone devices (Samsung i730)

• Enhanced preview (play) of MP3, WMA files in Ring Tone Manager for newer devices and with spaces in filenames

• & character in contact names is now displayed properly

• Support for setting vibrate mode via speaker bubble

• Photo Location folder is now automatically created when a memory card or built-in-storage is selected

• Speed enhancements

• Other minor cosmetic enhancements

Version Number: 3.00 - First Release

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