Spy games: recording telephone conversations on Symbian smartphones. Comparative review of programs for recording telephone conversations on smartphones with Symbian OS Interface and structure of programs

Best CallRecorder - Call Recorder for Symbian

Version: 1.07

Compatibility: S60 3-5th edition

Languages: English, German, Russian, French, Chinese

Very convenient, with many settings, at the same time simple program to save any calls to or from your phone.

Possibilities:

Main view of the application

Recording Window

The Recording window in Best CallRecorder shows all saved records telephone conversations... Here you can listen to this or that recording, erase it and get detailed information about the record.

Settings dialog

Note: Recording of telephone conversations is supported only on Nokia devices (Samsung and other manufacturers are not supported).

Where to begin:

* To make Best CallRecorder record only necessary calls, select the Rules command in the menu and set the rules according to your wishes;
* Open Settings and set the parameters you need;
* Activate Best CallRecorder by pressing the joystick button;

Recording Window:

The Recordings window in Best CallRecorder shows all saved phone call records. Here you can listen to this or that recording, erase it or get detailed information about the recording. List of available operations with records:

* Play recording. During playback of a recording, you can change the volume by pressing the joystick left / right;
* Call a contact or phone number. If a phone number is associated with the selected record, you can dial it without leaving Best CallRecorder - just press the Call button or select the Call command from the menu;
* Properties - shows detailed information about the entry;
* Send - allows you to send selected records via Bluetooth, E-Mail, etc .;
* Delete deletes the marked entries;
* Delete everything;
* Compact - removes from the list all records that do not have a sound file associated with it (for example, if it was deleted manually);
* Refresh - reloads the list of records;

Recording rules:

Best CallRecorder allows you to create rules of the following types:

* By default - this rule will be applied if no other of the active rules is used;
* Unknown # - if the caller's number is not saved in your Contacts, this rule will apply;
* Contact - you can set a separate rule for a specific contact;
* Group - a rule for a group of contacts;
* Telephone - the rule for a telephone number. You can use a mask to define a series phone numbers... The pattern can contain wildcards "*" and "?", Where "*" matches any one, none, or more consecutive characters, and "?" matches any one character.
Example:
"* 111" - all numbers ending in 111;
"111 *" - all numbers starting with 111;
"12? 34" - all numbers from the series 12034, 12134 ... 12934;

For each rule, the following actions can be specified to be performed if the condition of the rule is met:

* Ask before recording - if this action is selected, Best CallRecorder will ask you if you want to record this call or not;
* Record incoming - enable recording of incoming calls;
* Record outgoing - enable recording of outgoing calls;

Note: If you have not selected any actions or have selected only Ask before recording, this rule will be disabled.

Priorities for applying rules (in case you have conflicting or overlapping rules):

* Unknown;
* Contact;
* Group;
* Telephone;
* Default.

Settings:

In this dialog you can configure the following parameters:

* No beep - allows you to suppress the beep while recording a telephone conversation. Note: the recording quality becomes worse when the audio notification suppression is enabled.
* Recording format (amr / wav)
* Memory for recording (Phone memory / Memory card)
* Maximum recording time (unlimited / minutes: seconds)

This is a customizable call recording program that allows you to set rules for saving incoming and / or outgoing calls from known and / or unknown numbers... Convenient and easy to use.

Possibilities:

* Call recording mode "no beep";
* Automatic recording of voice calls, optionally limited or unlimited in time;
* User can choose which disk to record conversations on;
* Customizable rules for automatic recording of phone calls from certain numbers or directions;
* Small load on memory and battery;
* Easy to use and intuitive clear interface user;

Compatible devices: Nokia 5230, Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia 5800 Navigation ed., Nokia 5800i XpressMusic, Nokia N97, Nokia N97 mini, Nokia X6

Doesn't work for: Samsung i8910 Omnia HD, Sony ericsson Satio

Today I will talk about how you can easily and simply set up call recording in Nokia phones using the program Psiloc Xelnex Lite v1.03. Why did I choose this particular program? This is because it is designed for recording telephone conversations and has a number of advantages that are not found in similar software products.

Advantages:

• Ease of management;
• Ability to disable the squeak when recording a conversation (except for 6210, N78, N79 and N96);
• Selecting memory for audio files;
• Switch between manual and automatic mode;
• Recording of telephone conversations in MP3 / WAV / AMR format;
• Detailed information about the recorded files;
• Possibility to enable recording by pressing the "*" button;
• All audio files are divided into folders depending on the month they were recorded.

Installation

First you need to install the program by downloading and opening the Psiloc Xelnex Lite v1.03.sisx file. In order to Russify our voice recorder program, you need to install the RUS Psiloc Xelnex Lite v1.03.sis Russifier. Your phone may require an app certificate. In this case this utility and the crack must be signed personal certificate or install it on a jailbroken phone. The installation process of the utility is no different from the installation of other programs, so I will not describe the installation process itself.

Interface and settings

Open the application for recording telephone conversations. During the launch of Xelnex Lite, a splash screen with the developer's logo appears, after which we immediately go to the "Recordings" tab. This tab shows us all of our saved audio files. Each entry is placed in a separate folder with the name of the month and year of its creation. You can open the folder with the joystick and play any recording. Each file has its own icon (voice recorder, incoming or outgoing call), as well as the date and time of creation.

To view the details of each record, press "Functions" - "Details".

The item "Details" indicates the type of recording, file name, time and duration, file storage location. In addition, if it was a recording of a telephone conversation, and not just a dictaphone, then the number and name of the contact are also reported.

When we go to the "Status" tab, we can see Current state our record. It shows the current status in real time, the time of the current recording, the file size and disk space (how many more files can be recorded in time and how much space is left).

Now let's go to the "Functions" menu item and consider it in more detail:

1) New entry. We can turn on the voice recorder using this function. When recording a telephone conversation or just turned on the dictaphone at the bottom of the screen mobile device a small icon will appear.

2) Settings... Using this item, we can change the program settings at our discretion. This item contains the following options:

Recording method. Using this item, you can also change the method of recording audio files (automatic, manual or off).

On * key - means whether the recording will be turned on when you press and hold the "*" button.

Call recording. This setting item means whether the recording of a telephone conversation in automatic mode... That is, when we answer or call someone, the program automatically turns on the recorder, and when the call ends, it stops recording.

Recording format. I think everything is clear here too. We choose a convenient format for us from the three presented (WAV, MP3 or AMR).

File storage. We choose the place convenient for us, which the program will use to store the recording files.

3) Help. Using this item, we can go to the help information on this program and in more detail read and study all the settings and functions.

- is another useful program for Nokia smartphones operating systems and (Anna, Belle), with which you will be able to record telephone conversations. While using the program on S60v5 smartphones, your interlocutor will remain unaware that the recording is in progress. But on Symbian ^ 3 smartphones, the squeak could not be avoided, despite lengthy experiments with the program settings.

For a long time, many users in this regard were rescued by the program, but with the transition of smartphones to operating system Symbian Belle Refresh and it started to malfunction. Moreover, they are expressed differently for each. Someone can hear a squeak, someone cannot find the recorded conversations. The main problem on smartphones of the S ^ 3 line was not solved. In general, SymbRecorder also beeps on them quite clearly, but there are no problems with the recorded conversations.

Immediately, we note the fact that the program is not free, and for its full use without any restrictions, you will have to pay for it. In the free version, it will fully work within two weeks from the moment of the first launch, and after the specified period it will ask you to purchase it, and at the same time its functionality will be limited to recording calls that do not exceed one minute in length. In general, the program has really great capabilities, and those who need it are unlikely to regret the money spent.

SymbRecorder settings

Before using it, you can look into the settings to change the recording format and its quality, determine the place to store the recorded conversations, specify the address Email, to which all conversations will be automatically sent at the end of the conversation (if you need it, of course). You can also set up a hotkey to start recording a conversation or choose to automatically record all conversations, after the completion of which a request will appear on the screen to save the recording, which, in our opinion, is very convenient.

Recently appeared great amount various software for smartphones. Most of the software provided is paid. It should be noted that for smartphones with the S60 operating series, in general, there is very little free software. The user, of course, really wants the software that he has chosen to work adequately, without "glitches". But on this moment very few programs can boast of their flawless work - say, you installed the software, it seemed to you successful and wonderful, but in the process of in-depth work, "pitfalls" begin to emerge. Based on these considerations, we will conduct a comparative review of three programs designed for recording telephone conversations ( Best Dictaphone, Call Recorder Pro, CallRecorder) and define their positive and negative features of work.

The first thing to pay attention to is the size of the distribution:

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Best Dictaphone- 156.4 Kb


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Call Recorder Pro - 267.4 Kb

CallRecorder - 252.9 Kb

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As you can see, in the size of the distribution kit, undoubtedly, the program wins Best Dictaphone. Program interface Best Dictaphone Russian-speaking, and the remaining two programs under consideration have English-speaking. It should be noted that for the program CallRecorder crack was found. All three programs are paid for. Well, we are finishing our introduction and moving on to a step-by-step comparative analysis, starting from launching the utility, and ending with a detailed description of the menu.

1) Run:

In a programme Best Dictaphone when starting the utility, we are asked to make a choice - to work with the Trial version of the program, or to register the utility immediately:

In a programme Call Recorder Pro when the utility starts, we are presented with an introductory menu with a brief excursion regarding this software. We can agree with the data provided by clicking on the item Accept, or reject the data by selecting the item Reject... In the latter case, we painlessly go to the main menu of our smartphone:

After we have made a choice, a pop-up menu appears, which informs us that we are working with a 15-day Trial version of the program:

Selecting an item Back, and finally we go to the main menu of the program.

In a programme CallRecorder when starting the utility, we are asked to make a choice - to work with the Trial version of the program, or to register the utility immediately:

From this we can conclude that in terms of ease of launch, all three programs under consideration are on the same level.

2) Interface and program structure:

In this paragraph of the review, we will consider the general comparative description interfaces of compared programs:

Best Dictaphone- the interface of the main menu of the program is presented to us by a list of the main operating items:

• Turn on, turn off- this operational item of the main menu of the program allows us to activate / deactivate the operation of the recorder.

• Recordings- this operational item allows us to navigate to the list of records we have made. We can go to this point by also pressing the joystick of our smartphone to the right (that is, the operating point is duplicated in the same mode):

• Hotkeys- with the help of this operational item, we can assign a hotkey to start / stop the recorder recording. I would like to note that the program runs in the background, so by pressing the hotkey, we immediately start recording (of course, the program must be active):

• Settings- using this operational item, we can work with the main settings of the program:

I would also like to note that at the bottom of the main menu of the program there are two items: on the left is the item Functions(contains all the necessary functions for adequate work with the utility), on the right is the item Log off(using this item, we can exit the program to the main menu of our smartphone).

Call Recorder Pro- the interface of the main menu of the program is quite simple and is a list of the records we have made. Next to each entry, the date of its creation, the exact time of creation, the duration of the recording, the number of the subscriber, during the conversation with whom the recording was made, is indicated, and even in some cases the photo of the subscriber with whom we spoke is indicated (the photo appears only in those cases if it was assigned for the subscriber of our phone book). At the bottom of the main menu of the program there are two items: on the left is the item Options(contains all the necessary functions for adequate work with the utility), on the right, item Play(allows you to reproduce the recordings we made):

CallRecorder - the interface of the main menu of the program is presented to the user in two modes, moving between which we can perform using the joystick of our smartphone:

• Status- in this mode, the current status of the utility is displayed (when the application is Russified, the statuses are confused - when the utility is activated, it says "Disabled", and vice versa), the recording disk, free disk space and the recording counter.

• Recordings- this mode is a list of records of our telephone conversations:

At the bottom of the main menu of the program there are two items: on the left is the item Functions(contains the necessary functions to optimize the work with the utility), on the right is the item Hide(using this item, we minimize the program and go to the main menu of our smartphone).

3) Detailed description Menu:

After considering the general interface of the main menu of the program, let's move on to a comparative examination of the items containing the necessary set of functions for the adequate operation of the programs:

Let's start with Best Dictaphone- Functions

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As we can see, the list contains functions that duplicate the main operational points of the program, so we will consider only the functions that we see for the first time. Using item Functions, which is presented in the screenshot above, we can: select one or another operating item of the main menu of the program; view information about the utility we are using; use the reference data of the program, which, despite the Russian interface of the program, are provided to us in English.

Let's move on to the utility Call Recorder Pro - in this program, the functionally containing item is called Options, and contains the following set of functions:

Using item Options, which is presented in the screenshot above, we can: set certain rules for the selected numbers of the list of our phone book, by adding them to the functional list; work with the basic settings of the program; view information about this version of the program and about its developers; register this version of the program; exit the program to the main menu of our smartphone.

Let's move on to the utility CallRecorder - in this program, the functionally containing item is called Functions, and contains the following set of functions:

Using item Functions, which is presented in the screenshot above, we can: set the recording rules for both private numbers and for all others; work with the basic settings of the utility; register this version of the utility; view information about the utility we use and its developers; exit the program to the main menu of the smartphone.

Let's summarize:

In summing up, I would like to cite separately the pros and cons of each software discussed above, and based on this, draw a general conclusion:

• ProgramBest Dictaphone:

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easy-to-use Russian-language interface of the program; possibility of appointment hotkey launch and operation of the voice recorder in the background.

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(-): The disadvantages include English-language reference data of the program; lack of choice the format of the recorded file; the inability to select the folder for saving the sound files we record .

• ProgramCall Recorder Pro:

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(+): The pluses include simple program interface; the ability to choose a format for sound recordings; the ability to set the duration of the sound recording.

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(-): The disadvantages include the lack of an automatic start function in the program; when recording a conversation, the program beeps very disgustingly, which is quite annoying during a long conversation.

• ProgramCallRecorder:

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The pluses include

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(-): In the process of using the program, no minuses were noticed.

Output: As you can see, the programs discussed above have their pros and cons. In terms of the absence of disadvantages, the program wins CallRecorder... From this follows the conclusion - the program CallRecordercan be considered the best of the software discussed above.