Introducing “Close Call” for the iPhone

Close Call was released to the App Store on Sept 7 (late that night from our calculations) and we invite you to check it out on your iPhone or iPod touch.

 

      

The Polka team built this application to enable individuals with iPhones to save a bit of key information on their wallpaper image, allowing another person to see this information if lost, or during an emergency, where the iPhone may be locked.

We’d like to thank all the reviewers and submitters of My Emergency Information, our paid application.  It was your feedback that caused our creative juices to flow.  Our team is working on adding Close Call functionality into My Emergency Info, making it even easier to keep your wallpaper up-to-date with your health records and contacts.  

• My Emergency Info: A premium application to share my detailed emergency health information with a doctor or emergency tech.  For those who are building towards a fully detailed record of useful heath information that would be helpful in case of emergency
• Close Call:  A one-step application to save my contact information and emergency summary for first-responders and put it on my Wallpaper on the iPhone

Close Call is free, My Emergency Information is $2.99.   We think both are a great value and will continue to innovate, for our health.

Tags: App Store, Close Call, iPhone, My Emergency Info, Wallpaper

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4 Responses to “Introducing “Close Call” for the iPhone”

1. Alex Bratu says:

   September 9, 2008 at 11:56 am

   Close Call is excellent. I was wondering if you had plans to make it so that when you select a picture, you can size it the way you can when you add wallpaper in settings? I don’t know anyone who doesn’t use regular photos that don’t end up getting stretched vertically when they use this app.

   Thanks for making this app. It’s definitely one of the best.
2. MILE says:

   September 9, 2008 at 6:10 pm

   Very nice and useful app, with only one minor flaw — the lack of localization…! Right now the main sentence “In case of emergency, please call” is always in English! It would be nice to either have localiized versions of the app or that phrase respectively or if the user could just change it to something else…

   Please let me know if you need help in translating to German, I’d be glad to do that for you…! Maybe I could provide a few other European translations as well…
3. David C. Nelson says:

   October 1, 2008 at 12:55 pm

   I downloaded Close Call. (I ride a bicycle many hours during the week and thought it might come in handy some day.) After entering data, there was no “save” or related option. I tried several times to get the app to “keep” my information, but alas it disappeared each and every time.

   Note I did re-sync the app, but to no avail.

   Note also that I did end up purchasing your other app for $2.99 and I like it very much. On that app, however, I could not guess how a user could find the “relationship” to my emergency contact(s)

   Thanks for listening.

   Dave Nelson
   618 277 4000
4. Kathleen says:

   November 5, 2008 at 2:39 pm

   This is a great App and very helpful in case of emergency. Thank you for providing it for free. Would be nice to be able to use it with the iPhone wall papers also. I look forward to checking out your other apps.