Native third-party app adds real speed dial to Apple iPhone
By Dusan Belic on Friday, February 8th, 2008 at 11:22 AM PST In Applications, iPhone
Lack of the real speed dial feature on the iPhone may be frustrating for some people who by now got used to the idea of keeping the phone numbers of their close friends and family members only a click away. That was probably the reason behind Big Boss’ application which adds this important functionality to the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s handset.
The application eliminates browsing through contacts for the favorite phone numbers. Simply start it and pick a person from the previously defined list of contacts and watch it happening.
In order to use the application, you’ll need to add Big Boss to the Installer (http://sleepers.net/iphonerepo), find speed dial in the Utilities section, and you’re ready to go. Best of all, the Speed Dial app works with the latest iPhone firmware 1.1.3. Of course, you’ll need to jailbrake your iPhone first…
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Better, closer, warmer. 2 clicks instead of going through the Phone application and navigating to your favorite contacts.
Now, how about an easier solution for getting the webclips to act as a speed dial?
I’m confused. I double click my home button and am immediately brought to my favorite contacts list. I then click who I want to call. This looks like an extra click to me.
I have made another application, SpringDial, for speed dialing that puts the speed dial on the SpringBoard and it is just one click. Check it out here:
http://springdial.mineshaftgap.net