I've reviewed ViTO SoundExplorer, the big brother (and, to some degree, a
predecessor) of VITO Technology's new title in the Windows Mobile Audio
Recording Bible, the definite resource of EVERYTHING audio
recording-related. In the meantime, ViTO has also come out a specialized
version of SoundExplorer, targetting the folks that would prefer making
quick voice notes (or, for that matter, record any kind of audio at high
quality) and / or record phone calls.

While most Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC Phone Edition (in the new, WM6
parlance, "Windows Mobile Professional"; from now on, I refer to them as
"PPC PE" devices) models aren't capable of making quality phone call
recordings, some (not very common) PPC PE models have no problems at
recording.

With the "little brother", the MS Smartphone (WM6 Standard) platform, the
situation is far better about the half of the current models allow for
recording phone calls, even the pretty new, cheap and recommended HTC Oxygen
(aka Orange SPV C100, HTC S310). Unfortunately, some other models, for
example, the otherwise HIGHLY recommended HTC Vox (aka HTC S710, Orange SPV
E650) do NOT support call recording. (Just ignore if somebody states the
opposite - unfortunately, many people just don't know what they speak about
when talking about call recording quality. My measurements are VERY reliable
as I do all of them on MY devices and, therefore, my info isn't based on
hearsay.)

Please see the article Windows Mobile device manufacturers & Microsoft, we
DO need phone recording capabilities!, paying special attention to following
the links; particularly the PPCT one - it explains EVERYTHING about all
these questions.

Other call recording apps

Up until recently, the only really useful call recorder application had been
the free PMRecorder. While having its share of problems (the need for using
a third-party tool to convert its output to be playable with any other tool;
the need to manually start it before automatic call recording and the fact
that it runs as a process, which can easily result in its purging from
memory; the lack of sophisticated audio codecs like MP3 or Speex), it's an
excellent and reliable tool really worth checking out; particularly if you're
into free and/or Smartphone-compliant apps.

Then came the beta versions of the forthcoming Resco Audio Recorder 4,
which, while keeping (and, Speex-wise, even enhancing) its really great
codecs, added call (auto)recording support. It's a really excellent app well
worth giving a try. Its three major problems are only the following:

1.. no Smartphone-compliance as of yet (YES, I've tried even on my WM6
QVGA HTC Vox)
2.. its MP3 encoder is really bad and should never be used
3.. the Speex encoder (the best encoder for voice storage, memory usage /
quality-wise) uses a lot of CPU time. This means you MUST overclock your
slower (for example, 195/200 MHz TI OMAP-based) devices so that it can work
OK. And, even at running your TI OMAP device at 273 MHz, you will encounter
occassional stuttering when playing back the recording.
Finally arrived AudioNotes 1.3, which, while keeping its excellent MP3
encoder (it's capable of making really QUALITY recordings even at 64 kbps,
unlike Resco Audio Recorder, which is unable to make quality recordings at
any bit speed), added the necessary framework (autostart, storing caller /
callee ID / number, the date etc) needed for call recording.

Getting, using

Get it from HERE. Note that the PPC (PE) and the Smartphone versions are
exactly the same and are interchangeable. Install, start.



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Werner "Menneisyys" Ruotsalainen - Microsoft MVP - Windows - Mobile Devices
Please see the Pocket PC Mag Expert Blog (including mine) at
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ - you will definitely like it.