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Penpower Inc have launched this week their a contact management tool for the iPhone and iPod touch called “WorldCard Contacts.” Worldcard Contacts is designed to replace the existing contacts app, and adds new features specially designed for business users.
“The existing contact management application on the iPhone is very limited and is primarily text based”, said Dr. Tsay, CEO of Penpower Inc. “there is no way to group contacts together, or to deal with visual information like business cards.”
Worldcard Contacts has a bunch of features to recommend it:
- Contacts groups to quickly sort and find contacts.
- Visual “favorites” menu where you can access people through their photo as well as their name.
- View contacts in either “List Mode” (Similar to the native contact list, except with added photo and company information) or Card Mode (Scroll through your business card book with full card images). All with a quick search function to pinpoint the contact you need rapidly.
- Make a call, send a text message or email, browse to the company’s website, or pinpoint them on a map with simple one button access, directly from their business cards!
- Works just like the native contacts application from the iPhone including favorites, recent calls, and keypad access.
- Integrates with the WorldCard Mobile App (sold separately) to let you easily entering contacts via capturing and recognizing business card photos. No more manually entering contacts needed.
Worldcard Contacts is designed to work both independently or hand in hand with the WorldCard Mobile business card reader for the iPhone also produced by Penpower. Worldcard Mobile is an OCR based business card scanning program that recognizes text from photographed business cards and inputs them into your contacts. With Worldcard Contacts you have quick access to both the visual and text versions of the contacts information.
So what do we think? It certainly looks the part, and if it’s usable, you could consider maybe porting your contacts over to it. I personally really like the picture-based favourites and contact list – combine that with the ability to do OCR from the Penpower scanner, that’s a nice proposition you got there!
Worldcard contacts (£3.49) [iTunes link]
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Ben Robinson
Ben is a 10+ year veteran of the Mobile industry – starting his career when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has now consulted on everything from bleeding-edge Mobile content, to the next-gen accessories you might view it on. As a result he has a broad and deep knowledge in numerous areas of Mobile – from network operators to device vendors, to infrastructure and middleware vendors (not to mention content delivery) – and has worked for companies in all of these areas! He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to 'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device) isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question of why you continue to use it... His focus at IntoMobile is mainly on Mobile content, services, and infrastructure, particularly as regards the UK market – and with the occasional look at devices. Additionally, using his extensive experience in the industry, he will provide commentary on the industry at large, with regular (and hopefully thought-provoking) articles.
