Quick Tip: Try Google Search App for Quick iPhone Contacts Search

Posted on 23 Jul 2008 by PatrickJ

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One of the many noticeable weak areas so far in the iPhone 2.0 software is a certain amount of lag / slowness in various places.  For me, the Contacts application, and in particular the Search portion of it, is one area where this is definitely felt.

So I was very glad to come across a quick but super useful tip from everythingiCafe forum member i Robot – in this thread – which points out that the new (and free) Google Search app does a great job at searching contacts.

And it sure does.  It feels considerably faster to me than the built-in app, and lets you tap to go directly to a selected contact just as you can in the built-in applet.  A little embarassing for Apple that Google’s app can out-do theirs, but good for us to know about :)

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2 Responses to Quick Tip: Try Google Search App for Quick iPhone Contacts Search

  1. rwin says:

    Hi Patrick, noticed some delay, slow responds myself on some parts of the iphone. I already reset the iphone completely and restalled my apps but after a couple of days it already showing irritating delays on the display.
    If somebody knows a solution or expierencing the same let me know. Came accross some nice extra apps i didn’t found: http://www.unlockappleiphone.com/2008/iphone-top-15-software-games-apps/ nice list. Too bad no download links but google helps :) .
    Let me know if somebody finds a fix for the delay! Ciao

  2. Nero says:

    I put notes in with my contacts and it doesn’t find any key words in the notes just first and last name . needs to look at every field in the contacts list.

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