Category: Fast Dialer

Corporate Dialer: Fast Dialer and Corporate Contacts in One App

Fast Dialer has a successor: Corporate Dialer, a fast phone app and a company directory in one. It brings together the two apps that have existed for many years, Fast Dialer and Corporate Contacts, rewritten for today’s Android. As always: no ads and no internet access. Your contacts and calls stay on your phone.

Key features

The new app includes all features from Fast Dialer (Eir Fast Dialer) and Corporate Contacts, and expands on them.

  • Its own call screen. Set Corporate Dialer as the phone app, and incoming calls show the caller’s company, department, position and groups. Can’t talk? Decline with a text message.
  • The whole call history. Android deletes old calls; Corporate Dialer keeps its own copy, so you can still find who called you months ago.
  • Corporate Contacts built in. Browse your contacts by company, department, position and location, combine the filters, and rename a company or a department once for every contact.
  • Reach the whole team. Text or e-mail a department or a group in one tap, each message with the recipient’s name if you like, now or scheduled for later.
  • Search everything. The T9 search you know, with two alphabets on one keypad (Latin plus one of 20 more), and a search through all the fields: company, position, e-mail, notes.
  • In 31 languages, with new themes and your own colours.

Where to get it

  • Google Play: free, with an optional one-time Pro upgrade. You can try Pro free for 14 days. Google doesn’t allow this version to show your SMS messages in the call log or to send group messages itself, so these go through your SMS app. This is a limitation of the app on Google Play, due to the store policies.
  • The full version on eir3.com: coming soon.
  • Huawei AppGallery and Samsung Galaxy Store: coming soon.

To the users of Fast Dialer

Thank you for staying with Fast Dialer all these years; many of the new features started as your requests. Corporate Dialer is a new app, so it installs next to Fast Dialer: try it, and remove the old one when you’re ready. Your contacts are not affected; they are Android’s own contacts, which both apps read.

Questions, ideas, a word missing in your language? Write a comment or an email.

Download it on Google Play for free:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eir.dialer.corporate

Eir Fast Dialer for iPhone

I got myself an iPhone recently, in order to do some smart-watch related development. But, I stumbled upon the same issue as I did when I got my first Android phone – the useless dialer. My approach was the same, as with the Android phone – after not finding in the App Store something that suits my needs, I created my own 🙂 Since the Fast Dialer app already exists for Android, the main logic was already there, I just needed to translated it into Objective C, which turned out to be not such a difficult task.

The end product has the same main functionality as the Android app: search using two languages keyboards at the same time, with one significant addition: one can choose a first language different than English / Latin based. That means that you can set your two language combination to be Russian – Hebrew, for example. Quite nice.

The search by numbers and search with wildcard modes are also available.

Other than that, the app theming is much alike the Android app, with initial choice of only 3 themes, but with more to come if there is interest.

There are some iOS limitations that significantly affect the app:
1. The access to the call log is prohibited, for security reasons. This beats me, its ridiculous. Some app can have access to the list of contacts, and the internet at the same time, enabling the leaking of personal information, but an app that has no internet access, is not allowed to access the call log? Makes no sense.
Anyway, the lack of the recent call list is not trivial, so my Eir Fast Dialer app cannot fully replace the default Dialer app. Pity.

2. There is no sorting of contacts based on the frequency of calls. I guess this is relation to the first point. It also shows how much more advanced system Android is in comparison to iOS.

Anyway, the app is already my default dialer app, try it out yourselves:

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Fast Dialer app update

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After a longer period, the Fast Dialer app has been updated with some new features and minor fixes.

The main new feature is the possibility to directly dial a number, send an SMS or add to contacts the clipboard contents. So you can copy a number from anywhere in your phone, from the Internet etc. and then use it directly in Fast Dialer, just long press on the number entry field, and you’ll be presented the options.

The other small but crucial update is the support for Android 4.4.

Get the app from Google Play!

Fast Dialer for BlackBerry 10

Announcing the Fast Dialer app for BlackBerry 10 devices!

Fast Dialer is a neat little app that makes the usage of your phone super-easy. Instantly find and dial contacts by name, number or company name, with only a few taps (statistics say average of 3 taps to find your desired contact).

The only BlackBerry 10 app that lets you search through your contacts using 2 different languages alphabets at the same time, the first one is Latin-based (and includes all European Latin-based languages by default), and the second can be one of the following:

  • Cyrillic (Russian, Belorussian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian…)
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Arabic

Other key features:
* Twenty nice skins.
* Convenient large letters for an easier search. (Four different display modes are available)
* Speed dialing.
* Company name is displayed (and searched by).
* Wildcard search.
* Highlighting of starred contacts.
* Sort contacts by last name
* Pauses in the dialed number.
* Landscape mode.
* Quick redial.
* Localized in Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Polish, Czech, German, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Dutch and Spanish!

Download the app from BlackBerry App World: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/36955887

Fast Dialer update

The Fast Dialer app has been updated. The new version includes some bug-fixes (huge thanks to everyone that reported a problem with the app, either directly, or through the Google Play store reports). Details about the fixes:

  • Log data on some phones (Sony mostly) was not updated properly, now it is working as it should.
  • There were reports of crashes related to contacts without phone numbers, that is fixed now.
  • The “call” button was not so easy to press on certain phone models with high resolution displays, that is corrected.

Get the app from Google Play!

The first Dialer for Sony’s SmartWatch

Introducing the first Dialer app for Sony’s SmartWatch. It enables direct phone dialing, as well as smart T9 search through the contacts!

The app inherits a lot from the Fast Dialer unique functionalities which have been proven to work flawlessly in the last two years, since the time the Fast Dialer app was first published.

This includes the fast T9 smart search through the contacts by name or company name, as well as the search using two alphabets at the same time. The Available alphabets are:

* Latin (all Latin-based European languages are supported)
* Cyrillic (Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Bulgarian…)
* Greek
* Hebrew
* Arabic

Following are the short instructions and a brief video demonstration.

INSTRUCTIONS:

SWIPE LEFT: to delete the last typed number or character
SWIPE RIGHT: to delete all
SWIPE UP / DOWN: to switch to T9 search
SWIPE UP / DOWN: to list through the search results in T9 mode

LONG TAP ON THE TOP GREEN BAR: to make a call

To use pauses when dialing a number:
LONG TAP ON ZERO: to enter + in numeric mode
LONG TAP ON ONE: to enter ; in numeric mode
LONG TAP ON TWO: to enter , in numeric mode

Get the app from Google Play!

Speed Dial extension for Sony’s Smart Wireless Headset Pro

The Fast Dialer extension for Sony’s SmartWatch now extends its functionality to Sony’s Smart Wireless Headset Pro.

Use the “Next” / “Volume up” and “Previous” / “Volume down” keys to make the selection, and initiate the call by pressing the “Play” or the “Action” key.

The Fast Dialer app is, of course, required to be installed on your phone!

Download the extension from Google Play for free!

Speed Dial extension for the Fast Dialer

According to Wikipedia:

Speed dial is a function available on many telephone systems allowing the user to place a call by pressing a reduced number of keys. This function is particularly useful for phone users who dial certain numbers on a regular basis.

The Speed Dial extension of the Fast Dialer app, for Sony’s SmartWatch does exactly that. The Fast Dialer app is – of course – required to be installed on the host device (i.e. phone), and through it the speed dial numbers are set.

Calls are made by long tapping one of the displayed numbers.

Here’s a short video to see the app in action.

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The app is free, get it today from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eir.dialer3.extension.speeddial