New Windows Mobile software: HNS Confidential Notes & Vito QuickContact

- Gary Thayer, Editor

Updated - May 4, 2005 -- (MobileVillage) -- Two new applications for Windows Mobile (Pocket PC) devices have been made available this week: a data protection application called Confidential Notes, and a phone book manager called QuickContact.

London, UK based HNS Consulting, publisher of the net-security.org security information portal, has released its Confidential Notes software for protecting data on a Windows Mobile handheld. The program features two password authorization levels - standard and advanced - which can be changed as the user wishes. Once logged in, users can create four types of notes (text, sketch, audio, and combo) and create customized folders for faster access to data. Notes are encrypted with 256 bit AES, and users can also back up the folder containing the encrypted notes.

Confidential Notes 1.0 runs on Pocket PC 2002, Windows Mobile 2003 and Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition devices. The installation is available in both Microsoft Windows Setup format and CAB format. The required space for installing the software to the device is 300 kb. To download Confidential Notes, see pocketpcsecurity.com.

Novosibirsk, Russia based Vito Technology has announced a "rebirth" of its QuickContact phone book software for Pocket PC handhelds. QuickContact for Pocket PC and Symbian allow one-handed control of the phone book and include various search methods and other tools.

QuickContact 1.0, formerly known as QuickContact Pro PE, lets users call contacts, input phone numbers, send SMS or e-mails, open web pages and search people. The software currently only works on Pocket PC phones, but Vito says it is working on a version that will allow non-smartphone users to connect to a mobile phone. Vito also offers QuickContact for SonyEricsson P910/P900/P800 devices.

The unique feature of QuickContact is its one-hand control: using only the PDA's joystick, users can search for and dial contacts, and input phone numbers without touching the screen.

QuickContact features two search modes. One of them is already familiar to the users of QuickContact: scrolling through the first letters of the names of contacts, users can find the desired contact in just several presses of the joystick. Another search method is combined with the keypad: when the user enters a number, QuickContact checks if this number or a contact that contains such letters already exist and displays variants for quick dial. If there is no such contact, it just dials the number that was entered.

A free trial version of QuickContact is available on the at Vito Technology web site. Existing owners of QuickContact Pro PE can purchase the new QuickContact at a special price on their online account page.

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