Contacts App For Android - With Themes, Backup & Recovery, Sync And Contact Management Features

This is one of the best and free Contacts Apps for your Android mobile phone. It comes with very cool user interface and plenty of useful features that you may be looking for in Android Contacts App. You can change the default theme of this app and alter the the look & feel so as to match with your persona. It comes with fancy 3D transition effects for swiping screens from one to another.

This is second Android Contacts App that is presented here. If you have not read about the first one then you can read it at : Android Contacts App - With Manage, Search, Sort, Sync, Groups, Speed Dial, Ringtone, Events and More Features

Android Contacts App - Go Contacts Ex : This cool android app comes with many contact management features including contacts backup and recovery.  It comes with very cool Dialpad for dialing numbers form your contact list and your call history. Once you try this app then you may not go back to older contacts app you were using on your Android mobile phone.

Android Contacts App - Contacts List : When you install this app on your Android phone and launch it first time them you would see the contacts list screen. On this screen, pressing the menu button of your Android phone would display the menus of this app as shown in screenshot below.

Android Contacts App - Menu

As shown in above screenshot there are menu useful features which can be accessed through these menus. Apart from these menus you can also long press the item from contacts list to display context menu with quick and handy features like "Call", "Edit before call", "Send SMS", "Send contact by SMS", "Add to favorites", "View Contact", "Edit Contact" and "Delete Contact".

Notice the search box at the top of the screen just below the title bar. You can type here the contact name that you want to search. It starts showing you the matching contacts as soon as you start typing in this search box.

Android Contacts App - Creating New Contact : You can either tap the "+" button at top right hand corner of the screen shown above or tap the "New Contact" menu shown in screenshot above. This would first prompt you to select from the list of accounts including "Phone". Select "Phone" to create phone contact and it would display the new contact screen.

Android Contacts App - New Contact

You can enter all contact information for your new contact using this screen. Tap the photo icon to take a snap or select the photo from android Gallery.

Tap the down arrow button at the right of "Given name" text box to see and make other contact entries related to name.

Tap "+" and "-" icons at the right hand side to add or remove additional phone entries.

Tap the drop down button at the left of phone or email text box  to select the type of phone number or email id.

Other information that you can enter here for the contact being created is "Postal address", "Organisation", "Groups" and "Ringtones". Once all the required information of the contact is entered then tap "Done" to create that contact.

Android Contacts App - Themes : Tap "Themes" menu and it displays the themes screen as shown below.

Android Contacts App - Themes

There are two tabs on this screen. "My Themes" tab displays the themes which are already downloaded and available. "More Themes" tab displays additional themes which can be downloaded.

Tap the theme you want to apply from the list of themes from  "My Themes" tab. This would apply the new theme to change the look & feel accordingly.

Android Contacts App - Contacts Backup & Recovery, Export & Import :   This app comes with a very handy and useful feature where you can take the backup of your contacts. You can restore contacts from backup when required. Especially when contacts get deleted for some reason or when phone is lost. Tap the "Im - Export" menu to launch the "Import - Export" dialog box as shown in screenshot below.

Android Contacts App - Import/Export contacts

Select "Export to SD card" for taking the backup of the contacts and it would prompt you for confirmation with the name of the backup file. On confirmation, contacts are backed up to the SD card.

For restoring the contacts from backup file tap "Import from SD card" option and select the backup file from your SD card. This would restore the contacts from that backup file.

Android Contacts App - Contact Accounts and Sync : Tap "Contact Acc..." menu to display the "Contact Account" screen as shown below.

Android Contacts App - Contacts Account

Using this screen you can choose accounts from which contacts should be displayed in this app. You can choose to display and sync the contacts from "Phone", "Google", "SIM", "Facebook" and "Twitter". Mark the check box "Show contacts with phone numbers only" to hide the contacts which do not have phone number.

Android Contacts App - Dialpad : This app has a toolbar at the bottom of the screen. The left button on this toolbar is "Dialpad". Tap this button to display the Dialpad screen of this app.

Android Contacts App - Dialpad

You can see the call history on this screen. Typing the number directly starts filtering the contacts and matching numbers are displayed. Once the number is entered then tap "Call" button to dial that number.

This app comes with cool 3D transition effects. Swipe the app screen horizontally and you would be able to switch from once screen to another with 3D cube transition effect.

Download this app and it's themes from Android market or app store of your choice and start enjoying this cool app from today.

As mentioned earlier in this post, this is second Android Contacts App that is presented. Read about the first app at : Android Contacts App - With Manage, Search, Sort, Sync, Groups, Speed Dial, Ringtone, Events and More Features

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Android Hotmail App - Setup And Sync Emails With Official Microsoft App For Google Android

This is official Microsoft Hotmail app for Google Android phones. Once you setup this app on your Android phone then you can sync up your Hotmail emails at predefined frequency or on push. Receive instant notifications of new emails, reply to urgent emails, compose and send emails anytime and from anywhere. Read how to setup your Hotmail account on your Android phone and stay in touch on the move.

Android Hotmail App : This app comes with wide range of settings and you can do almost everything which you are doing with Hotmail using desktop. You receive a notification for new emails, you can compose new emails, reply to received emails with CC and BCC options, you can delete emails, mark emails to "read" or "unread" and so on.

Android Hotmail Setup : When you launch this app first time you would be prompted to accept the terms of service. Once you accept the terms you would be taken to next screen as shown below.

Android Hotmail Setup

You can do the setup of your Android Hotmail app using this screen. Enter the email address and password of your Hotmail email account and tap the next button. This would register your Hotmail account with this app. This way you can register as many Hotmail accounts as you want by entering email address, password and pressing next button. Once you finish registering your Hotmail account then probably you would see a email notification icon in notification area of the phone as shown in screen shot above. Once you finish the setup of your Hotmail ids then press the back button of your Android phone and launch the Hotmail app again.

Android Hotmail Inbox : After you do the one time setup as explained in earlier section above then whenever you start the Hotmail app then it does not ask you again your Hotmail credentials. When you start the app next time it would launch with "Home" tab as active tab and you can see the all Hotmail accounts you have setup with the app. You can add more Hotmail ids here by tapping to "Add Hotmail Account" button.

Tap the "All Emails" tab to see all the emails from various registered Hotmail accounts together. This tab is handy to check quickly all received emails.

Android Hotmail - Inbox 

When you press menu button of your phone then you would see two menus as shown in screenshot above. As name indicates "Sort by" menu can be used to sort the emails by Date, Sender or Subject. Compose menu is used to start composing new email.

You can select one or more emails by tapping the check box against each email. Then you can mark those selected emails as "read' or "unread" by tapping appropriate button. You can delete selected emails by tapping "delete" button.

Android Hotmail - Composing New Email :  When you tap the "Compose" menu then you would see a screen for composing a new email.

Android Hotmail - Compose Email

When you start typing email id in "To" text box, it starts giving you suggestions based on your contacts. Press the menu button of your Android phone to see additional features available while composing an email. "Toggle Bcc" menu is used to show or hide "Bcc" text box for composing an email. Tap "Add recipient" menu to select the options from "Contacts", "Group" or "Search Contacts". As name suggest you can add attachments to your email by tapping "Add attachment" menu.

Android Hotmail Settings : When you tap the specific Hotmail account tab of this app then you can see the emails only for that specified account. When this tab is in focus and you press the menu button of your Android mobile phone then you would see more menu options than shown in earlier screenshot above.

Android Hotmail Settings

The menu "Account Settings" is one of the important menus because it allows you to fine tune the behavior of this app. Settings screen provides settings menus "Email", "Folders", "Contacts", "Quite Time", "Synchronise at" and "General settings". It also provide two action menus "Refresh data" and "Remove Account".

How To See Custom Hotmail Folders Other Than Inbox : If you tap "Change Folder" menu shown in screenshot above then you would be able to switch the folder from Inbox to "Drafts", "Outbox", "Sent Items" or "Trash". These are the folders which you can switch to by default settings. If you want to access your other custom Hotmail folder other than these defaults then you have to work some more.

To display other custom folders first tap the "Account Settings" menu and "Folders" option. This would display the screen with folder list showing all the available folders of your Hotmail account. Select the folders that you would like to access from Android Hotmail app. Once this is done then you can see these selected additional folders also when you tap the "Change Folder" menu. Now you can see and select additional other folders to access from Android Hotmail app.

Android Hotmail - Read And Reply Emails : When you tap any of the emails displayed in "All Emails" or specific account tab then it would be opened in separate screen to read.

Android Hotmail - Read Email

You can swipe the email by your finger to pan it horizontally or vertically. Panning email would also display the magnifying glasses as shown in screenshot above. Tap these magnifying glasses to zoom in or zoom out the email content.  You can tap "Hide Images" or "Show Images" toggle button to display or hide the images in email. Press the menu button of your Android phone to see menus which you can use while reading email.

Android Hotmail - Email Menus

You can use these menu options to perform various operations on the email. Operations which you can perform are - "Delete", "Forward", "Reply", "Reply All, and "Mark Unread".

You can download this app from Android market or app store of your choice. Once installed and setup you will be just finger touch away from your Hotmail emails.

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