Review: Q Contacts

Overview Q Contacts is a handy little app that may make it onto the main screen of your springboard. Simply put it enables you to quickly search for a contact, and then text, email, or call them without having to load their contact card.

Functionality

Q Contacts begins with typing in the name of a contact. You can type either first or last names or partial name and hit search. You'll receive a list of names as shown above as a result, each with a slideout button next to their name. By tapping on the slideout button, you can see icons for email, text messaging and phone calling. A quick tap on any of these icons launches either the Mail app or the Text app or displays an option box with the various phone numbers of that contact. You can then tap the phone number you want, and the phone will begin calling your contact. It's that simple.

The options screen has few to pick from. Basically, you can choose what your slideout button allows you to do, and in what order each of the three functions display.

Review

I love this app! It loads relatively fast, and it's a huge time saver over launching the iPhone's contact app, scrolling or tapping your way to a contact, and then having to navigate into that contact's information before you actually dial it... or email... or text.

One problem I found consistently (and I emailed the folks at Addy Mobile through the app's "Send Us Your Feedback" option) is that when displaying a long list of names in a search result, you can't scroll down past the keyboard. For example, on the image above, you can see "Hy Noble" cut off. While I could scroll down, I couldn't find a way to select "Sam Noble," which is displaying underneath the keyboard. The exposed keyboard blocks all attempts at selecting the slider button for those "hidden" contacts. This is a pretty significant glitch, in my opinion. The only way around it is to type enough information in the search bar to retrieve that particular contact you're trying to select.

Another note... if Q Contacts would allow you to edit and add contacts, it would be a perfect replacement for the standard Contacts app.

Summary

Q Contacts is a worthy entry into the world of contact management and navigation on the iPhone. With just one bug fix, I think it could end up being a great complement to Apple's provided Contacts app.

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