A few months ago AppCraver spoke with the guys over at Hive05. Somehow, their interview got lost in the archives. So now, without further ado (or at least without any further ado), meet Josh and Chris of Hive05, the developers of ICONtact.
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iPhone and iPad apps tagged "contact list."
Interview with Hive05, Developers of ICONtact
FriendSync Connects Contacts Online and Off
FriendSync is a Facebook app for iphone that does one thing really well. It accesses your Facebook friends list and syncs the information it finds with your iPhone contacts list. Pretty nifty.
FriendSync will import contact pictures, names and birthdays.
Smart Dial Streamlines Calling Contacts
Gary Fung's Smart Dial is yet another take on the many different ways you can dial telephone numbers stored on your iPhone.
Smart Dial is as streamlined as they come.
vlingo Takes Voice-Recognition Mobility to the Next Level
vlingo, the company, has just released vlingo, the iPhone app, which is similar in concept to the fast-rising Google Mobile app. Like Google's app, vlingo makes it possible for iPhone owners to vocally enter search terms into Google.
Nimbuzz Gives Off a Good Vibe, When It Works
That humming sound you hear is not tinnitus. It’s the noise being generated by Nimbuzz, one of the newest apps on the App Store shelf.
"Say Who" You Talk it Dials
Say Who - Dialer is the voice recognition dialing app by developer Excuse Me Services, Inc. Available in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Say Who lets you speak a contact name into the iPhone's microphone and then automatically dials the correlating number in your contacts.
bContacts: Not Enough Extras to Merit a High Price Tag
bContacts is an application that is supposed to help users organize business contacts and personal contacts by sorting them into groups and subgroups. Unfortunately, what sounds like a good idea in theory, falls flat.
Handshake Shares Contact Info — With Other Handshake Users
In business the handshake often comes with a business card. The makers of the Handshake app hope to put the entire process on your iPhone. The app — there is a free and paid version — gives you the ability to send contact information (yours or someone from your contact list) or photos.
Fring Could be the Ultimate Killer App.
Fring, the integrated IM client, launched today for the iPhone. Before getting into Fring specifics, pay attention to what happens at 46seconds on the above video.
Who is Hot?
"Who is Hot?” takes awkward silences to a new level.
The app basically takes your contact list and tells you where the source of the phone number originated and then grabs the current weather situation and puts that next to the contact name, phone number and city.
Face Melter: Pliable Fun for Photos
Contact list beware... I'm going to pinch your faces! Face Melter is so much fun, I just can't stop. I've already moved on from faces to dogs and inanimate objects.
The premise is this — if you can shoot it, you can melt it. You start by snapping a photo or importing one from your library.
The Top Ten Secrets of the iPhone
So, you have got a new shiny iPhone. Well, here's a list of 10 things you might not know about it:
1. Take a screen shot of your iPhone.
TruPhone is cheap, but not anywhere near free
Truphone at first sounds too good to be true -- VOIP on your iPhone. So, is it like SkypeOut, which is very close to free? Well, not exactly. When you download the app, you are given a free $4 to apply towards any calls, international or domestic.
