My phone already tells me these things

• Posted by balzzzy September 09, 2010

At first glance you may wonder what this app is all about. After reading the description you kind of still wonder what the purpose of this app is all about. After downloading this app, you cancel and refund when you realize you don't need it all.

The app has a couple of features so let's review:

1) Notifies of missed calls and text messages by reporting the name of the caller and the number of missed calls by email or by text.

My phone gives me quite a handy thing called a notification bar which tells me how many missed calls I have, new voicemails, programs running and a whole slew of other things. Why do I need a text message or e-mail to tell me this?

2) There is a configurable "I'm away reply".

If I am away from my phone, then I am away from my phone. I do not need my phone to tell people that I am away. Leave a voicemail.

3) Has a "get phone location" feature.

While this may be the handiest part of this app, hence the two bars that I rated this previously, the app "Where's my Droid" does this for free.

4) Remote contact picking.

The handy team at Google has allowed me to save and back up all of my contacts through them. Even if I lost my phone, worst case scenario, when I turn on my new phone there they are. When I login online, there they are.

The app is 0.99 cents. I just don't see the purpose of spending money on an application of this sort when my phone does most of the work already and there are free apps to compensate for the other find your phone location feature. Not recommended.

Developer comments pushed this rating down to 1 bar, as there is no proper customer service. Just some young punk who is mouthy and does not like a negative review of their app.

PS @ fedepaol. My review is honest and not superficial. You as the developer rating this app 5 stars is extremely superficial. "My app is the best so 5 stars". Your review made me try the app out and I'm glad I did. Because you as a Dev just proved my point, more junk on the Market should be exposed so as to avoid it. As you so seflishly wrote yourself: "I developed this to fulfill my own need."

Well, I am the developer of this stuff...

• Posted by fedepaol September 09, 2010
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But I think it's quite useful for a lot of stuff. You can set an auto reply, you can find where you left the phone, activate it with just an sms and get notified of all your missed calls...

Every single feature can be set remotely by sms, so if you forget your phone somewhere and you need to know who is calling you, just send it an sms.
I use it regularly, I developed this to fullfill my own need :-)

PS: in reply to balzzzy review: the main goal of this app is to help you if you leave your phone somewhere. Your review is quite superficial. You never tried this app. You wrote your review 5 minutes after mine, based on my review. How can you write a review? You missed main features like remote contact picking and remote activation. This is very helpful if you forget your phone at home