5/30/2023 0 Comments Phoneview review![]() Although you can’t edit contacts within PhoneView, you can copy contacts to your Mac as V-Card files.īut the more-useful features, in my opinion, relate to notes, SMS messages, and your call log. If you’ve added photos to contacts in Address Book, those appear here, too. Since my original review, Ecamm has added direct access to contacts, notes, your call log, SMS messages, iTunes media, and photos-both camera images and those transferred via iTunes.įor example, if you click on the Contacts item in the sidebar, you can browse summaries (name, company, email, phone number) for each of your contacts, or search for a particular person or company. Overall, the file storage and browsing features are much-improved compared to iPhoneDrive, but they’re just a small slice of what PhoneView can now do. One other minor complaint about the Disk feature is that it doesn’t support Quick Look previews of files stored on your iPhone. PhoneView thus displays a confirmation dialog when you try to delete a file.) You can also rename items you’ve copied to your iPhone, a feature I requested in my original review. (Note that PhoneView has no Trash area once you delete a file, it’s gone from the iPhone for good. You can create new folders on the iPhone using the New Folder button in the toolbar, and you can delete a file by selecting it and clicking on the Delete button. (You can also double-click a file in PhoneView to automatically download it to your Documents folder and then open the file I wish there was an option to choose your preferred download folder.) Unlike the original version of iPhoneDrive, PhoneView displays a progress bar so you can monitor the status of a copy. To instead copy files from your iPhone to your computer, just drag them out of the window to the Finder or select them and click on the Copy From iPhone button. ![]() The Disk item, selected by default, is your iPhone’s data storage folder.Įcamm automatically-and helpfully-places a copy of the PhoneView manual in this folder, but you can add any files that will fit by either dragging them from your hard drive into the window or clicking on the Copy To iPhone button (which will bring up an OS X file-navigation dialog for selecting the file to be copied). After connecting your iPhone to your Mac and launching PhoneView, you’ll see a window similar to a Finder window, with data types on the left, file listings on the right, and the amount of free space on your iPhone displayed at the bottom. The capability to use your iPhone as a storage drive is still included in PhoneView, and it works much as it did a year ago with iPhoneDrive. (Note that for the rest of this review, when I say “iPhone,” I really mean “iPhone or iPod touch,” assuming the iPod touch provides the feature being discussed.) The current version, PhoneView 2.0.2, offers much more functionality than that original, as well as support for the iPod touch. ![]() Since that time, iPhoneDrive has received many, many updates-as well as a couple name changes, first to MegaPhone and most recently to PhoneView. IPhoneDrive, a neat utility that let you use your iPhone’s memory as storage for files and data, much like Disk Mode on an iPod. * This app is available for MAC only at the moment.Back in July of last year, less than a month after the iPhone debuted, I reviewed □Ī few of the features that PhoneView offers: Use your iPhone as a Disk If you’re interested in trying before you buy, I’m not sure that they offer a free demo, but a quick search of some of your favorite sites should reveal some options. Less crashes, better battery life and no software issues have been wonderful.įor those of you trying a Jailbreak-Free approach to your iPhone 3GS, I recommend giving PhoneView a try. I know that the DevTeam as well as GeoHot have both released tools to allow for Jailbreaking on 3GS devices using 3.1 or 3.1.2, however, over the past few months, I’ve actually enjoyed not have a Jailbroken iPhone. Since the release of OS 3.1 I have not Jailbroken my iPhone 3GS. Until this PhoneView, the only means that has allowed me to do this flawlessly has been VoicemailForwarder, a program available via Cydia on a Jailbroken iPhone. The main feature that caught my attention was the ability (in V2.3) to copy your voicemail messages to your computer and save them as audio files. What i found interesting about this app is the impressive list of features that it boasts, without the need to Jailbreak your iPhone. ![]() I came across a few posts today discussing a newly revised app called PhoneView, brought to us by a company called ECAMM. ![]()
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