Windows Phone Thoughts: The 'PI' eater? -- A look at Agendus for Windows Mobile v1.01

Contacts
Clearly, the Contacts area is where Agendus has focused most of its attention – attempting to provide a more complete Contact/Relationship Management experience than is available with other products.

Contacts can be grouped, or not, based on a preferences setting or by a selection from the Contacts screen. If not grouped, the display is similar to that seen in Pocket Outlook with tabs along the top to select the first letter of the 'filed' name.


Figure 3: Display of ungrouped Contacts.

Multiple tapping of the tab doesn't move the list to the next letter as we are used to in Outlook (e.g. Double-tapping the 'def' tab doesn't take you from starting at 'd' to starting at 'e'). You need to scroll through the list to get to the desired entry. Entries can be grouped by name, company, city, state, country and zip code – depending upon the selection from the drop-down list in the top left. Grouping by company for instance, shows the number of entries within each company, plus the typical side arrow/down arrow icon to display the next level of hierarchy (i.e. Everyone in a given company)


Figure 4: Contacts grouped by company.

You can also display contacts by Categories, if you have assigned them to each other, by selecting the desired category from the drop-down list at the top right. This brings up another oddity in the interface. When a drop-down list is displayed in Agendus, there doesn't appear to be any way to dismiss the list without making a selection (fortunately, most come with a 'no-selection' option) and all of the lists use a checkmark to identify the current selected option, implying that there is a capability to multi-select options in the list to combine categories, companies, etc. However, this is not the case. Only one option is allowed from the drop-down list at a time.

Tapping on an entry's name displays the Contact edit screen.


Figure 5: Editing a Contact's info. The Unfiled button at the bottom lets you know that this contact has not been associated with a Category. :roll:

Again, things are a bit different from what we are used to seeing, since portions of the data associated with a contact are separated by menu items across the top, rather than tabs along the bottom.