FriendBook - Another App From Tapulous
I know I’ve been blogging about the iPhone/iPod touch a lot lately, but I love the new things coming to them. The developers who brought Tap Tap Revenge and Twinkle to the iPhone and iPod touch have also release FriendBook, a social contacts application available in the App Store for free. Tapulous has done it again. For the past week, they have released two other applications, one proclaimed “Most Popular Free App” by Apple (TTR) and the other very quickly rising and becoming extremely popular; within one day! (Twinkle)
FriendBook was the last of their current applications to roll out for now. I’ve found it to be an extremely useful app: I’ve replaced Contacts with it after the first 3 minutes of use. It sports a very first time starting page that shows a list of your current Contacts. There is a Groups arrow at the top that takes you a page with only an “All Contacts” option, I’m not sure what you can add here. Since I am on an iPod touch, I’m sure I won’t be able to reach my full potential with this app, but it is still very nice nevertheless.
Anyway, in all views, there is a Handshake icon on the bottom right corner of every page. This page shows directions on how to “handshake” with other iPhone users and quickly swap information, like phone numbers, email, address, etc. It’s solution to the long, “Hey what’s your number?” “…” “Wait, let me type it in.” bore. Strangely, when I tried this by myself, I found an iPhone user’s “Me Card,” which is your own profile, from Ohio. (I don’t live in Ohio.) Still, it proved that it works.
However, the most important feature seems to be the little man icon at the bottom left of every page. This takes you to the top 9 friends list. This is like visual speed dial for the iPhone. You can add people from your contacts and when you tap their picture on this list, it dials their phone number, whichever you picked for them, like mobile, home, work, etc.
The FriendBook visual speed dial interface
The contact edit interface seems to be the same as the default Contacts application. Any contacts you delete or add from this app also syncs with your Contacts, so you don’t have to re-do all the changes should you ever use Contacts again (I’m serious, you might not).
What really sold me to this app as an iPod touch user is that the contacts list shows thumbnails of your contacts’ profile pictures. I love being able to see what I’m picking, so this is very useful.
FriendBook is an awesome app from Tapulous that will be attractive and useful to both iPhone and iPod touch users.
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