Review: Contact Diaries

Review: Contact Diaries

Contact Diaries is the App that I will be reviewing today. This is my first attempt at App review and all thanks to my friend Rahul. If you guys like it I will do reviews of Apps every week with my recommendations and Rating.

Summary

This App is a must have for all Mumbaikars. It gives details, reviews and maps of all the places in Mumbai, whether you want to know which restaurant to go to or which movie to catch. All you need to do is go to the app. The app is a wish come true for a lot of shopaholics as it shows offers and deals currently running around the city.

Rating

The App gets a 4 star rating, as a few features are missing such as check in and taxi and rickshaw meters. One more thing only Mumbai and Goa cities are active as of now, others are expected to be updated soon.

Price

Free

This is the best part, as I was not expecting a good app to be free.

Features

The first impression about the application I got was that it looks very confusing, but spend some time with app and you realise the developers have taken pain to make it as simple and user friendly as possible. The question here is have they succeeded in doing so, and the answer to this is YES.

The feature list is exhaustive, as the app has classified the details in 7 categories, which makes it easy for users to search for what they are looking for. The 7 categories are 

Restaurants which has details of practically all restaurants, bars, cafes and much more. 

Lifestyle which has details of book shops, clothes shops,dance and cooking classes and shopping in general. 

Travel gives you details of hotels, airlines, cabs and everything you need while travelling. 

Entertainment gives you details of movies running their timings and which cinema hall can you catch it in. It also gives you details about plays, shows, art galleries and art shows running in town, and much more.

Business gives you details about various business establishments, professional services you may need and much more.

Education gives you details about colleges, schools and coaching classes as well.

Healthcare gives information about hospitals, clinics, doctors and much more.

The app uses your location to provide information about places around you. The location can be changed as per your liking. You get user reviews about places and also images clicked by users so you can make your call whether to visit the place or not. If you like the place you can share the details with friends on Facebook, twitter, BBM if you have a BB or email it so a lot of options to share. Dont know where the place is, no problem check it on the map rite from the app.

Download links:

Click here for Blackberry

Click here for Android

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iPhone 5

With Apple's "Lets Talk iPhone" event just four days away (that is on the 4th october 2011), I felt this is the best time to express my views and expectations on the most awaited device of the year...

This is for all iPhone LOVERS.

Design: According to me the size of the iPhone 5 will change for sure. Firstly the screen size will be increased to 4 inches, the phone will be considerably thinner it could even be the thinnest smartphone ever. The design on the phone will be new with smart use of the aluminium. The Retina Display will find its way even on this device.

OS: It is for sure that iPhone 5 will have the latest OS the iOS 5. iOS 5 has more than 200 new features which all iPhone users current and new will appreciate and enjoy. Full list of features can be accessed on the official page. The best feature that a lot of users will like is iMessages, this is Apples answer to the BBM of Blackberry.

Camera: The camera will surely be upgraded. I expect it to come with 8 megapixel camera and the video recording at 1080p. We all know that the camera on the iPhone 4 was great and most competitors did not even come close to the clarity the 8 megapixel camera will set new benchmark for the competition for sure.

Performance: The iPhone 5 will borrow the A5 chip from the iPad for better performance, to be specific A5 is twice as powerful than the A4 in the iPhone 4 . More RAM will be given to the phone. The performance of the iPhone 4 was great but the competition was able to quickly catch up. Now the competition will again have to rack their brain as nobody does it better than Apple.

Storage: The storage options that should be available are 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB.

And The Most Awaited Feature THE iCLOUD Sync all your data wirelessly to all ios devices. No more hassel of wires.
iPhone 5 will surely be another hit from Apple and as usual people will be lining outside the stores to lay their hands on it....