Speed Dialer Factory (for iPhone)

Speed Dialer Factory for iPhone ($0.99) lets you create speed dial-like icons of your favorite contacts, and place them on your home screen. It sounds like a very simple, single-purpose utility, and it is, but don't be mistaken: the app truly adds convenience and style to your smartphone experience.

By adding a contact's speed dial icon to your home screen, you only need one tap to connect instead of three; the usual routine is tapping into your Address Book, scrolling to find your contact, tapping to select your contact, and tapping again to select a way to connect. Alternatively you can also bookmark your favorite contacts in your Address Book, but it only lets you call or Facetime them.

Speed Dialer Factory doesn't upload contacts to its servers, as one might expect, but it does require some interaction on your part. The app creates tiny Web apps for speed dials locally, launches them in Safari, and then prompts you to tap the Share button at the bottom of your screen and tap "Add to Home Screen" to yes, add the icon to your home screen.

Add a Speed Dial
Speed Dialer Factory is incredibly easy to use. To make a new icon, simply launch the app, select a contact, and start customizing the icon. You can change the icon image to a picture from your gallery or snap a photo on the spot. Another very cool feature is being able to choose the method of communication to associate with your dialer?voice, text, iMessage, email, FaceTime, Skype, or "let me choose each time."

Other speed dialers for the iPhone add more features, but also more complexity. Faces Visual Photo Dialer ($1.99) essentially revamps your contact list and lets you bookmark your favorites to put up front. Another app, Speed Dials Free, is more like a traditional speed dialer in that you can assign contacts to numbers on a dedicated speed dial screen.

Speed Dialer lets you make unlimited icons. I created icons of everyone I contact regularly and put them on my phone's homescreen?this capability definitely adds a unique personalized touch to your phone.

For a dollar, Speed Dialer Factory for iPhone provides an easy way to spruce up your iPhone experience. It's a bit limited in functionality, and I'd love to see more options for customizing the look and feel of an icon, but what it does do, it does well.?

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