Aside from the home-button double-click feature that was introduced with the iPhone v1.1.1, there really isn’t any other speed-dial option on the iPhone. With the introduction of WebClips on the iPhone v1.1.3, Nate True has discovered another nifty use for the web-page shortcut feature.
Along the same lines as that WebClips-based homescreen picture album hack, Nate True has come up with a solution that will put speed-dial thumbnail icons on your homescreen. The hack will take a bit of webpage-coding know-how (or just some instruction-following know-how), and a web server that you can use.
The instructions involved putting a script on a webpage that, when clicked, will prompt the iPhone to dial the embedded phone number. You then turn that webpage into a WebClip (with the appropriate picture) and you’ll have image-based speed-dial right on your iPhone’s homescreen. How cool is that?
Find Nate True’s instructions on creating a WebClip-based homescreen speed-dial thumbnail icon here.
[Via: cre.ations.net]