The new update comes with multiple bug fixes, fixing virtually all the issues brought up by our reviewers, including: sorting by distances, closer search results, more search results, less crashes and unnecessary information refreshes, and even more subtle changes.

Hopefully the app can be useful to you. Please feel free to contact me with questions and support. I look forward to your reviews,

On the contrary, we’re ones of the few that have been constantly updating our product and at least strive to make our product more useful to our customers. Of course, we’re the first to offer this Second-Call feature, something I feel almost necessary now that I’ve used 1 Click Call myself. It’s completely necessary to be able to call both Cell and Home number, and not get boggled down with knowing which 1 Click Call app dials what.

We’re hoping to continue advancing the 1 click call features in our software with free future updates for all existing customers, more and beyond others who came out to try to make a quick buck. We’re still driven by our own personal needs for better iPhone experiences, and continue listening to your ideas. I’d welcome any feedback.

Cheers,

Hai

It’s designed mostly for your convenient when you’re on the road, because 911 is not always the best choice. However, it should be noted that this app should only be used in non-emergency cases, and in all life-threatening situations, you should dial 911.

The best thing is this app does not require internet access to get to the information, and even if you don’t have GPS, you can enter your zipcode and it’ll work as well. When you do have GPS data, it’ll automatically locate you and find the nearest police stations. I understand the frustration of slow internet search, and this was definitely a top priority in the product design process,

You can read it up more about it here.

Cheers,

-Hai

-No more counter

-You can select any of a contact’s phone number

-A gender neutral selection

http://www.openxfer.com/sweetheart/

And something coming soon is the ability to change number without uninstalling. We’ve investigated the ability to change icon and picture for the application, but are as yet unsuccessful as it may not be possible given current constraints.

We hope you update your product reviews of our product appropriately!

Cheers,

Feature requests, problems and discussions can always be sent to my email: hairulex at gmail.com

Put yourself in our shoes just for a sec. We’re developing a simple, free application. As an iPhone user, what do I want? I want something that is useful for me, easy to use, and cost nothing. Therefore, when we come up with a name, we intended on making the application for our own use. I’m a guy, therefore, I needed a button to call my girlfriend. But when we saw that there you could also use something like this, we decided to make it available free to everybody. So in fact, many can hate the name, but still appreciate the concept.

Of course, I apologize that we also didn’t have boyfriend caller, sweetheart caller, parents caller. Trust me, we thought of it. We didn’t expect the response to our application to be so positive (and we truly appreciate all the people with the encouraging words).

Give us time and your support, and we’ll continue sharing many great applications we have developed for ourselves with you. Just talk to us, we’re here and listening.

(I know I switch between I and we constantly. Mostly the opinions are mine, which I can be blamed for, but “we” is the collective that gets the job done.)

With Girlfriend Caller, we saw many ratings of 4 or 5 stars, but also many 1 stars. Why? The answer may in fact be very simple. Free applications often have many more customers reviews, but it’s never perfect. In fact, it reminds me of a line straight out of Batman, “You’re either die the hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” Free applications either crash and burn, or stay around long enough to be hated by everybody.

However, I am in fact excited to see so many people download Girlfriend Caller, a first, but of course not last series of free (and some paid) applications coming from our team. More than anything, we want your feedback, your feature requests.

Let’s hear from you, the customer, in much more details than the simple reviews that is written quite quickly on the still imperfect iPhone keyboard.

We want to encourage feedback that are constructive. A 1 star saying “this app sucks” does not help make the next generation applications better. A 4 star, “here’s what I want” helps keep us motivated and serve your interests. We do what do we do because we enjoy it.

PS. Why was it called the Girlfriend Caller? Let me explain….

Zintin is a picture social networking tool. I have seen these guys at work from the early beginning and their application hit the spot in photo sharing on the iPhone. You can take pictures, share them with anyone around you, and also edit the pictures to add a little piece of creativity. It is these kinds of apps that makes the iPhone so useful, and I highly encourage you to check out their application when it releases. Zintin does these three things very well:

1. you can discover the people around you and know when your friends are nearby
2. you can share pictures and express yourself on your wall
3. you can engage new people, or just have fun with your friends.

It will be exciting to use Zintin, and it’d be even better when you and friends all use it, so be sure to check it out on the app store, or visit their site.

I expect to see at least 200 applications to be released, most of which will likely be free or cost $.99. I also expect these to be the most popular in acquiring early users, but likely also have low retention rates. It is likely a much smaller minority who will pay big bucks early on for major applications. It will be exciting to watch the evolution of the financial models here.

Unlike some previous platforms that have distributed applications (eg Facebook), people are used to paying Apple to download music files and plugging in their phones for application updates.

The following are some more guesses as to what the applications you will see. Of the applications,

1. 30% will be social networking, or have social network contents
2. 20% will be games, but it’ll be dominated by big players
3. 30% will be entertainment, music, lifestyle, environment
4. 10-15% will be productivity based.
5. 10-15% will be mobile versions of existing services

There may be much overlap between the various groups of applications. The business will be hard for those trying to take advantage of the long tail, particularly those going for the free application. I also wouldn’t expect many applications to survive more than a few weeks on the iPhone, I just hope Apple will do a good job removing the dead.