App Update – Smart Dial

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On December 9, 2008

When all is said and done, after searching for a decent voice dialing app I find myself using good, old fashioned dialing when it comes to placing calls on my iPhone. It isn’t that there aren’t good apps ot there for voice dial, there are, but sinceit still takes nmerous steps to use voice dial on the device, dialing works almost as well if not as well. One of the keys to finding and dialing people who are alreayd in my large contact list are apps like Smart Dial.

As we have written previously, Smart Dial lets you use the large, finger-friendly, phone pad to type in names. Dial 9 for "W" (of X,Y,Z), dial 6 for "O" (or M or N), dial 4 for "I" (or G or H) and dial 7 for "P" (or Q, R or S) and in four taps Smart Dial brings up my contact for whatsoniphone.  

Smart Dial allows you to quickly dial your contacts by spelling their name directly on the number keypad. It uses the contacts in your Address Book, starts quicly and includes "smart logic" such as default phone number and recently dialed calls to keep your number of taps to a minimum.

You can-
• Find contacts by first and last name
• View contacts by default phone number or other alternative numbers
• Create new contacts immediately when a new phone number is entered
• Access previously dialed phone numbers
• Editing of contact info from within the app
and more….

Best of all, Smart Dial just received a nice update. In addition to the usual bug fixes, you can now

Send text messages and assign 10 contacts to a speed dial key (0-9).
 

Those are two key functions that come in extreely handy when you make a lot of calls or do a lot of texting.

Smart Dial is available HERE in the App Store for $2.99.