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I find it's a lot faster to find a contact with T9 than a soft QWERTY keyboard or just scrolling through a list. (CyanogenMod has this built in to its dialer and it is beautiful.)
From a UX perspective, after the initial learning curve, T9 gives you larger tap targets and fewer taps needed (compared to QWERTY). This naturally results in faster finger movement but also less need for movement overall. It's a win-win for search.
This looks very nice visually, but I had trouble adding contacts to groups, most contacts resulting in "this contact belongs to another account, cannot be added to this group". Maybe this has something to do with the fact that I have synchronized the contacts with my Google account? The lack of native UI components also makes this app feel like an "outsider" in iOS, which is easy to notice when opening the native con…
This is pretty great. My only gripe so far is the auto-rotating between name / photo. Some people don't actually use photos of themselves so I'd much rather see the name.
I have no idea if it was a valid claim, but easier to just avoid the hassle.
No support for cyrillic layout yet? Except for that, I love it!
I've looked into it and at the moment I'm still in doubt about localizing in cyrillic/arabic/chinese/japanese. If I do it, it will have to be a complete implementation, along with T9 filtering, wich frankly scares me because of the vast amount of information I'll have to digest to make it work properly.
I have no idea about arabic and of course chinese/japanese is somewhat strange, but for cyrillic it's the same as for latin, just different symbols and a bit more of them (so like АБВГ on 2, ДЕЖЗ on 3, and so on). I can provide layout and info about additional letters which we don't usually show, but use (like Ë and Ъ from Russian and Ї from Ukrainian).
Anyway, thanks for good work! :)
I would not use "Metro UI" Microsoft stopped using the term due to trademark dispute with a Metro AG. I recall seeing a notice to msdn developers requesting them to stop using the name some time ago. I have no idea if it was a valid claim, but easier to just avoid the hassle.
Ugh, Metro interface is so bad. No sense of visual hierarchy or prioritization. The colored tiles all run together. Why would anyone want to bring this mess to iOS??!!
I have been meaning to make a Google Voice client with the only feature being T9. If you add google voice support to this (just for making calls and sending a new message) I will send you a gift.
