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Groups 2: SMS, Email & Contact Management with StyleCurrent Version: 2.1.2 (iOS 4.0 Tested)

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"Best App for Working Your Rolodex"
-- O'Reilly

"..Groups is a steal for anybody who is serious about contact organization."
-- Macworld

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Groups takes contacts group management to a totally different level. You get to manage your contacts the iPhone way; A simple drag & drop gesture. As they say, "a Drag & Drop is worth a thousand operations"... or something like that!

With Groups you can:

★ View and manage contact groups from a single, easy to navigate view.

★ Send Mass / Group SMS and Email to any contact group. Mail Groups with individually set To, Cc and Bcc selections. With a few taps, easily send mass SMS or Email to your friends, family or colleagues.

★ Create, rename, delete, sort, color, hide and navigate contact groups - all in a single view. Create contact groups are then accessible from the built-in Contacts / Phone app.

★ Drag & Drop single or multiple contacts into or out of groups.

★ Send Mass / Group Mail to only a subset of a selected Group. Simply perform a search and filter on contacts you wish to email. Group emailing was never this easy.

★ vCard attachments (as inline text and an attached file supported by all mobiles): share contact information with others easily and effectively. Supports sending all fields including photos.

★ Merge multiple contacts into a single contact in Mass Select Mode (tap-hold two fingers on contact list). Extremely easy to merge duplicate contacts.

★ Delete multiple contacts from the address book in a single go (from Mass Select Mode).

★ Dial, SMS, Email and visit URL/Map Locations of individual contacts by tapping on their name for quick dialing (i.e. use it as a mini-dialer)

★ Search through your entire contact list from a single view. You can save searches too!

★ Use the built-in smart T9 Dial Pad to make quick calls and quickly filter on matched names and numbers while you dial.

★ Smart Groups: Use built-in ready to use 'Smart Groups' or create your own to easily categorize and manage your contacts. Groups offers the most powerful and easy to use filter-creation view ever. Note: Smart Groups are filtered views of your contacts and you cannot obviously drag and drop a contact to these groups.

★ Save performed searches as Smart Groups with a single tap

★ Keep your contacts and groups in sync with the built in Address Book, your Laptop or Mobile Me (Please see note below for Windows).

★ Map Out group contacts. For a selected group this will map out each contact on a map for visualizing your contacts

★ Supports portrait and landscape mode

Groups is the ultimate Group Emailing / Texting / SMS application and is the only contact grouper tool you'll ever need. It's rich with features and offers unmatched usability.


Important Notes & Known issues:
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* Note: Upgrading firmware to iOS 4.0 deletes all groups if syncing with Exchange. This is a firmware issue/bug.

* Japanese & Chinese users: Please enter Phonetic Last/First for your contacts for them to sort correctly

* Outlook users: iTunes syncs created groups as folders and not categories

* Exchange servers or Google Sync will not sync back groups created with Groups. Groups cannot harm your address book as it simply reads and writes to it. It does not synchronize explicitly to any other service.

* Managing Ringtones is not supported


Tags: Groups, Contacts, Search Dial, Phone Dial, Photo Contacts, Contact Groups, Speed Dialer, Contact Filter, Fast Dialer, Speed Dial, Group Mailer, Group Mail, Group SMS, Mass SMS, SMS Contacts, Quick SMS, SM
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Groups 2: SMS, Email & Contact Management with Style Review

Current version missing some essential tools, but contact manager shows a lot of promise

Groups: Drag & Drop Contacts Management from Guided Ways Technologies looks to improve upon the built-in Contacts app that comes with the iPhone. It mostly delivers, though there are a few shortcomings with the 1.0.1 version.

Upon opening up Groups, the first things you’ll notice are the polished colors and a slick interface. The app organizes groups in a column of tabs down the left side of the iPhone’s screen and, like the iPhone’s default contacts manager, features a quick alphabet scroll and search bar.

While Group’s design is nice, its functionality is what really stands out. Groups lets you drag-and-drop individual contacts into groups. That allows for a number of powerful capabilities such as sending out a mass e-mail to everyone within a group. Other features include built-in smart groups, though you can’t modify the settings that Groups uses to create these smart groupings. Also, when you drag contacts to the Trash group, they are still there instead of being obliterated. Guided Ways hails this as a way to preserve contacts, but I can’t say that I saw much of a benefit.

In what could be considered a double-edged sword, Groups loads the contact information from your iPhone’s address book. On the positive side, it’s great for viewing contact data in other apps and makes for easier syncing. But it does make for slow start-up times for Groups.

Group’s biggest flaw is its inability to edit contacts within the app. Guided Ways promises this in a future version. Indeed, the App Store page for Groups gives a laundry list of promised features for the forthcoming 1.1 update, including mass dragging of contacts, improved start-up speed, and BCC and CC support for mass e-mails, among other improvements.

At $2, Groups is a steal for anybody who is serious about contact organization. The app still lacks some essential features, but the horizon looks promising for what looks to be a really powerful app.

Groups: Drag & Drop Contacts Management is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.x software update.

[John Fuller is a freelance designer and writer from Texas.]

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I waited a long time to purchase this app. I wasn't sure that it would fit my needs. I'm so glad that I purchased this app. This is the best purchase I've made of 2010. It is easy to use, fun to create groups too. The options you have with the groups and how you can organize your contacts will make you wonder how you ever used your phone without it. While playing around with Groups, I stumbled upon the dialer and to say I was blown away is an understatement. I love the sleek colorful interface and I just love the options I have to create groups. You can even create smart groups too. When sending an email with groups, you have tons of options to choose from so that you can deselect someone in the group that you might not want included in the email. The only issue I have with this app is that I can't stop creating groups! I'm sorry I waited so long but I'm so glad I finally purchased this app! First app this year to exceed my expectations big time!


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