Smartphones may rule mobile. But a start-up called Sidecar believes the latest mobile phones could be smarter about the experience you have while on a good old-fashioned phone call. Its solution is the Sidecar app for Android phones, iPhone and iPod Touch that launched Tuesday as a free download in the Google Play and Apple App Stores.
By Sidecar's definition, smart-calling means that without leaving the app — and with just a couple of taps on a rotary-style interface — you can share your location on a map, photos, contacts, text messages and live see-what-I-see video with the person on the other end. Doing these tasks without the app would require extra steps.
I did all of that on the calls I made or received through the app, using an iPhone 4 and HTC One Android device. Still, for all its promise, my experience in the early going wasn't always smooth. Call quality was so-so. I encountered some dropped calls and a few other bugs. Read More
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