CallRec Version 5.0 Released

the real question is - why are you recording your phone calls???

I don't know what you do for a living, Gekko, but when I have phone meetings with clients where we're hammering out important stuff and making sure we understand where everyone is coming from we're frequently all recording the call. Also a great thing for phone interviews. The ground rules are: make sure you're up-front about what you're doing, why you're doing it, know that everyone is cool with it, and for God's sake don't tell the legal department.

David Beers
Pikesoft Mobile Computing
www.pikesoft.com/blog

I hardly EVER record calls. In fact, I hardly ever use the app. IN FACT, I hardly ever even use the Treo for making phone calls since it's such a lousy phone. But I like having the app around if a "just in case" situation arises.

Also, I've recorded some hysterical drunken voicemails and other entertaining events (a sobbing spouse, raging colleagues, a foul-mouthed friend who lives out of state that everyone else would otherwise not get to hear in action, confrontational wrong number callers at 3am) etc.

I use it as more of a novelty than anything else.

And as Beersie said, it's great for conducting phone interviews or whatnot provided you clarify everything up front & in full.

Regardless of one's usage patterns, it's nice to see an app like this available and frequently updated. It's sorta like radar detectors...anyday I expect The Man to put the smack down on this sort of ambiguous stuff.

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Reverend - be careful. I think that's how they took down Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart.

I downloaded this and installed v5 after having had some problems with v4. I had also tried a version of MotionApps' call recorder previously as well.

Very consistently with many of the comments over on another Treo-centric site, I had problems from the get-go with v5, and ended up uninstalling it within 15 minutes. Upon attempting to make calls, my Treo 650 was reseting spontaneously (ostensibly upon triggering the background automatic call recording action I had set to be invoked). I expect they will take care of this quickly, since I very much doubt there were only a small number of folks affected by the unseemly anomaly. In my case, I'm also running Butler, but the problem continued after deactivating that app as well...

CallRec seems to be well done-- controls are large enough to use on a treo-- a nice feature. The automatic recording is nice.

One Comment- The Preferences are too spread out among multiple menu list items and should be consolidated so you can move through them easily to set from a single menu item. Multiple screens are fine (tab them if needed) but having to back out and then reenter another menu item over and over is wasted, when there are only two settings in a screen.

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Mike Compeau

When I was running 4.0 I sent an email to QMobilSoft asking for an easier way to switch the sound output between the internal and external speakers. Well, wouldn't you know but they added it. Not only that, but they took my suggestion of using the spacebar as a toggle, in addition to a nifty on-screen tap mechanism.

Just about the perfect recording app!

(Now, if I can just get them to use two-digit numbers instead of names for the months in recording filenames so the recordings sort correctly.... :O )

Yeap, the same with my Treo 680. I'm back using v4.0. It freezes outgoing calls, even without any "Automatic record..." set.

Yes - same here. I reported it to Qmobilsoft a few days ago and they say they're working on it. The initial problems with version 3 and 4 were fixed pretty quickly, I suppose they'll squash this one soon too.

Until then, I'm sticking with version 4.