Written by Phil Miller, on April 12, 2008 at 12:06
Not long after the unanounced release of PhoneSwitch Deluxe 1.3 is the release of PhoneSwitch Deluxe 1.3.1. Because not much was said about 1.3 I will go in to detail about what is new with both new versions. First off, version 1.3 stores it's information completely differently from the 1.2.X series. This change should speed up operation as well as make my life much easier when it comes to adding new options as well as changing old ones. With this change, however, you will be required to either delete your old version of PhoneSwitch when upgrading or install 1.3.1 (or higher) to automatically set all of your preferences back to default. Another change that PhoneSwitch Deluxe 1.3.X has seen is the way it handles looking up if a caller exists to determine whether or not to prompt you to add a new contact. The 1.2.X series used a rather slow and rather clunky system of determining this information. On devices with a lot of contacts this would cause the device to hang while it searched your contacts. The new system calls the contacts app directly and lets it handle the dirty work. Version 1.3.1 now offers the option to purchase a registration code directly from your device. By clicking the "Purchase Code" button on the registration screen you will now be taken to MobiHand's mobile shopping cart (which is integrated directly in to BoraWare.com) where your PhoneSwitch deluxe will already be in the cart and your HotSync ID will already be entered. You then simply check out on their secure HTTPS mobile site and you are set to go. Finally, the last new addition to the PhoneSwitch 1.3.X series is the new developer API. Many users have addressed the need to have other programs interact with PhoneSwitch so that those programs (or PhoneSwitch) operate correctly. This new API will allow developers to manually enable/disable PhoneSwitch, manually launch the last or second to last program, and a control a few other things. There will be a complete guide on how to access this API posted on in the PhoneSwitch Deluxe section of BoraWare.com soon.
Posted by ericb, on April 17, 2008 at 09:11, , Registered
1. Phoe Switch suggestion
Hey Phil, neat little utility! I think a quick and easy improvement to Phone Swtich would be a pop-up screen asking the user if he would like to return to the preceeding application or not. Even better, also give the user the choice of configuring a favorite application so he could choose it, as well as yes or no... Cheers.
