Palm Pre Homebrew App of the Day: Quick Contacts
Picture dialers on phones are useful tools — just glance at your faves, tap a picture and you’re either calling or texting them. But while the Palm Pre is missing such a photo dialer, once again, the homebrew community has come to the rescue. Quick Contacts makes it a breeze to pick nine close friends to add to the “favorites” screen.
The screen gives one-tap access to both the Contacts and the Messaging apps at the bottom, and there’s also a button for the Dialer app, so basically you can leave Quick Contacts running all the time. It’s one of the advantages of having a phone that can multitask.
Quick Contacts is free while in beta and is expected to go to the main Pre App Catalog once officially released. And the developer is offering free lifetime updates — even after the official launch — for those who make a $5 donation for the homebrew app.
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can you fwd a pic message with the palm pre
Just saw a new version of Quick Contacts available. Has Email button on the main screen and SMS takes you directly to previous conversations!
Good program. Would like to be able to change a contact picture within the program, for different pics of same contact with multiple numbers. Also would be nice to be able to hide the unused contact icons so you only view the used ones.