Filed under: Software, Freeware, iPhone
iPhone-style scrolling on Windows Mobile
You had to know this was coming. iContact is a freeware application for Windows Mobile devices that generates a simple contact list which you can "scroll" through with the flick of a finger (or stylus). At version 0.2 it's pretty basic, and only displays you contacts' names in a list. Tap and release a contact name to view that record's standard display.
If you've got iPhone envy, maybe this will ease your pain.
[Via Lifehacker]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
david said 2:11AM on 6-15-2007
you have to use a stylus?
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Bill Mac said 5:51PM on 6-14-2007
Who wants to use a stylus? Yuck!
Besides- once you click the name, does it even dial for you?
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baksanir said 6:35PM on 6-14-2007
It works without stylus too... but if you want direct dialing function you should check SSContact
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Catt said 7:38PM on 6-14-2007
I don't know it doesn't scroll like butter quite like the iPhone. The display is also not as big and bright. No I'm not fooled forget it don't be envious save on beer and get a real one.
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Tutor said 7:56PM on 6-14-2007
Scrolling isn't that new, is it?
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Darren said 8:01PM on 6-14-2007
That is *exactly* how the iPhone works. In quicksand, that is.
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coyotej said 8:10PM on 6-14-2007
@Darren:
LOL
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Suspense said 8:21PM on 6-14-2007
Yeah yeah, bag Windows Mobile all you like (I don't like it either). The fact is that developers there can do stuff like this without being constrained to freaking WebApps!
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sam said 3:59AM on 6-15-2007
@Suspense:
Burn! (Disk)
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slaguru said 4:33AM on 6-15-2007
Have to agree with comment 7
The iPhone looks great and will sell loads, but not here in the European corporate market, not unless it can run OWA and push E-mail down.
Thats what I want to see.
The other is the growing trend for companies to put GPS into phones. I have a Mio701 running Mobile 5 and TomTom which works great. Maybe with some super wifi and google you can get something similar on the iPhone, but not here in Europe (Google is still US Centric).
By the time the iPhone is here I have a nasty feeling the phone world will have moved on. The new SE walkman phones sport 9Gb Flash, and nice (not iPhone granted) but good interfaces, and they will be cheap or free compaired to the apple device.
To me this is the first time in a long time that Apple shows signs of dropping the ball. If you don't open up the development of the phone, you will get all the business and smart development going elsewhere.
If big companies like Sony, Nokia and the like can open the phones to third party, why not Apple. And IF web2 development apps being offered do the same as a full blooded SDK why not offer the SDK as well ???
It has to exist ??
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Jcl said 12:20PM on 6-15-2007
I made an application like this one in roughly 30 minutes with C# for my PDA, right when I saw the very first iPhone video.
Nothing out of this world
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Silky Slim said 3:25AM on 6-18-2007
i can't believe there isn't something like this for macbooks... is there?
i can already use the two-fingered trackpad scrolling technique... i wish it had this cool "flicking" like the iphone does.
does anyone have a mod in the works?
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