SplashWallet is a package bundle of what most mobile users would consider "required" applications for almost any mobile device. Incorporated into this package is three separate programs:
INTRODUCTION
SplashShopper’s goal is to provide a way for you to track and organize purchases that you need to make, things you need to do, and really anything else you can think of in list format. SplashID’s goal is to provide secure storage of critical personal information like credit card accounts, ATM passwords, insurance details, and many others. Finally, SplashPhoto is here to help you organize your mobile photographic media, and to assist in transferring "not so mobile" images into smaller more manageable files that you take with you.
At this point I need to be honest. I’ve got my favorite list program already, and I’ve been a wallet user for a long time, so I’m not the easiest to impress when it comes to these applications. Given the current products from the likes of Iliumsoft and WebIS it’s going to take nothing short of a miracle from SplashID and SplashShopper to win me over. The real question is can they do it? Can they present something to me in these applications that is so value-add that would make me want to switch from my tried and true applications to SplashWallet? Read on for the review!
One low price, three award winning applications! SplashData took three of their top selling, most awarded applications for smartphones and threw them all into a nice easy to purchase bundle, sort of like a buy two get one free, only cheaper! Don’t forget EACH of these applications includes a desktop application as well, however for the purposes of keeping this review shorter than War and Peace I’m not going to cover them in any kind of detail.
WHAT’S HOT
At the current time there is no installer for the entire SplashWallet package so you have to install all three applications separately and enter all three serial numbers separately as well.
SETUP
First up, because it’s the first thing I installed is SplashShopper. To be perfectly honest I was overwhelmed with SplashShopper. When I first opened the application I was expecting something to the effect of iliumsoft’s ListPro but what I got was completely different. For the first time in a long time I felt the need to read the user guide which was included in the package installation. Needless to say I was not off to a good start.
PRODUCT FEATURES
This is the initial interface you see when bringing up SplashShopper. I didn’t need to add any of these categories you see above, but the option does exist to create your own if you feel the need. Keep that in mind as we move forward – if you want to add a category, item or to-do, you can. I HIGHLY recommend if you intend to do multiple new entries that you do so from your desktop just to save time.
I chose this particular screen shot because this is the meat of the application and shows a lot of the key ingredients. The two menu options at the top allow you to filter both by store and also by category. So if you need to know the items needed from the spice area at Food Mart, you can filter the list to show these specific items. From there we get to the incredibly large included list of items that we may want to buy.
Using the "menu" soft key brings up the ability to view the item in detail and you can edit the store, price, description, category, aisle number, quantity and also tax tracking.
Finally along the bottom there’s a handy running total of what the price would be if we bought everything, what it would be if we bought only what we need, and the soft key to select an item as "need". Y can see how the nifty little shopping cart that tells me I NEEEEEDDD Pop Tarts. Basic survival food!
The screenshots above highlight one of the other issues I had with SplashShopper in that the column sizes are not adjustable. So you end up having to look at a list that shows three Canned Pea-somethings. I have no idea what they are, and the only way to find out is to view/edit from the menu or adjust the font size to something much smaller than the default (I found 7 to be acceptable on the BlackJack).
Unfortunately at this point I need to switch gears and move onto one of the other applications included in the bundle. I’ve only scratched the surface of the power SplashShopper has to offer. As can be seen in the screenshots above you can customize every list to include items and columns giving you a nearly infinite set of possibilities and it would take me days to cover them all.
Up next in our continuing SplashWallet festival is SplashID.
Above you see the basic interface for SplashID with the default cards included from SplashData. Now the first thing you may notice is that compared to some of the other options out there the interface is rather bland and the icons don’t seem do have a lot of detail. I hate to say it, but this turned me off from the application almost immediately. Given how amazingly crisp the screen is on my BlackJack, I would prefer not to adorn it with program icons circa Windows 95.
Take a short second and compare the first image and the second one and you’ll notice there is a lot more information in the background of each card than what is presented on the initial page. All of this information can be displayed via your choice of columns. Just remember you have limited homescreen real estate, so the more you add the smaller the displayed fields become.
Anybody remember the show – The Weakest Link? Well, in the screen shot above – you can see the weakest link and you’re in complete control of it. Your password controls access to all of this information. If someone doesn’t know that password for your wallet – they are not getting into it. Why? Well aside from some possible (and highly technical) attacks that could be mounted against this file it’s secured by 256-bit Blowfish encryption meaning you can sleep safely at night … even if someone gets ahold of your smartphone. As long as this password is kept secret, your information is safe too.
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Also included in SplashID is a very handy password generator that will create secure passwords up to 19 characters. Simply select what kinds of characters your password requirements need and hit Generate. Easy Peasy.
Lastly, let’s take a quick look at what it takes to create a card. Clicking on "New" brings you to this simple interface where it’s very easy to select the type of card you wish to create or under the Tools menu you can create a new template if none of the cards suit your needs. Each field within this process had a pre-defined description which you need to fill out. If you don’t have anything you wish to enter … simply skip that section. You’ll notice in the image on the right the Card # entry has a dot next it. All sections with this dot will be masked from all views until you chose to have it shown. Once you have finished entering all the various texts, select Done. That’s all there is to it.
Since I see some sleepy faces, let’s move on to the next program in our Journey … SplashPhoto.
In the images above I’ve shown the Thumbnail view and the list view. As you can see this program is quite simple in nature, but don’t let this level of simplicity fool you for behind this facade lies an amazing amount of detail. Now, before anyone’s heart gets a chance to be broken, understand that SplashPhoto is NOT an image editor, it is an image viewer.
I’m only including one image in this set, because it only takes this one screen shot to show you the simplicity and the power of SplashPhoto. Take a look at this detailed view and tell me what you see. I see an image formatted perfectly for my screen size and stored automatically on my Storage Card. But more importantly than all of that, I see an image that with 1 click changed from being 3400×2600 and 2.87MB to roughly 27kb and the process took a little over a second.
And just in case you were wondering what my puppy (she’s three) looks like in mid-sneeze, there she is. And this is exactly what she looks like when you put her into the slide show mode of SplashPhoto. The slideshow is not too configurable, pretty much just a set the time to show each slide and click "Go".
Each picture can be moved manually or sync’d via the software. You can choose where to store the image (internal or storage card), assign it to any number of pre-defined or customized categories and you can mark the image as private. Private images require a password in order for you to access it, so if you have images of a confidential nature worry not for they are protected (at least within SplashPhoto).
I wanted to wrap this section up with a screen shot from the desktop. This is the preferences section of SplashPhoto. Make sure you hit this section before you do your first image transfer. The only reason I make this suggestion is because you will want to make sure the image size is adjusted properly for your screen orientation and the data goes to your storage card or else you may run into some memory issues on the device!
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I did not feel the need to contact SplashData for support on SplashWallet, so I have no idea how good their support staff is or how long you can expect to wait for a response. I can however tell you that the documentation for each of these applications is very detailed and will walk you through every basic function of the various programs. Since the documentation doesn’t show you where to go to get support, here’s a link to the support request form on the SplashData website. SplashID left me a little wanting. Aside from newer icons, I missed the ability to have multiple wallets. This is standard with eWallet and FlexWallet and something I’ve grown accustomed to. I also noticed that there is no checking of how many times you enter a password incorrectly during "logon," as well as some times when you are adding data into a new card and for some reason it locks you out and requires the password to be entered again. Finally I did see a couple places where things would be cutoff, like icons or texts. This is simple polish that should have been caught in testing with landscape Smartphones. type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
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I guess the first "bug" is the somewhat annoying edit functionality. I really like the fact that in both SplashShopper and SplashID they give you option to edit darned near everything, but by the time I was very fluent with the programs, it began to drive me nuts when I landed on "edit" and was instantly put into the edit menu. This should be a press enter to select kind of thing, not an everytime I pass over it kind of thing.
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