Contapps, a Socially Connected Android Phone Book & Contacts App
by AndroidTapp Writer
May 26, 2011 10:43 AM –
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Contapps is an integrated phone book that can connect with your social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare. By doing so users can easily stay in touch with the people who matter the most anytime anywhere.
Price: Free
Tested on: myTouch4G
Pros & Cons:
Pros
- The ability to like, comment, and post on your friends Facebook wall through the application
- Reply, Tweet and Retweet through Contapps
- See where your Foursquare friends are, their check-ins, mayor-ships, badges and venues
- Gesture Search
- Smart Dialer
- T9 Search
- See social feeds from Facebook, Twitter, and Google Talk
- Pinch-To-Zoom
- Birthday Reminders
- Fast Visual Browsing
- Contacts Widget
- Many new features coming soon
Cons
- Facebook does not always sync correctly
- Force Closes
- Shows Black Screen
- Does not show all contacts
Features:
Contapps is a unique address book for Android devices. It features Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and Google Talk integration so you can easily stay in touch with friends and family. Coming soon is Linkedin support for those users who use it.
Along with the ability to be able to sync all your contacts from all your social networks, Contapps also gives you the ability to be able to view and comment on your friends and family’s Facebook wall along with the ability to reply to tweets and retweet easily from within the application.
With all the unique features that Contapps provides one of my favorites is the different ways you can search your contacts. You can use gesture search, smart dialer, and T9 search to easily find the person you want to be able to contact. Another one of my other favorite features of this app is the ability to view your contact’s address within the Contapps app itself and also the ability to launch Google navigation quickly and easily by just clicking on the address shown on the map. 
Overall, Contapps is a decent application and replacement for your stock Android phone book. However, I did experience numerous issues with the application itself. These ranged from force closes to black screens and also I have issues with syncing my Facebook contacts. My biggest complaint is the fact that not all of my contacts show up. I have a combined amount of roughly 500 contacts and only a handful of those show up. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the application along with trying different settings to no avail however. 
With some improvements I really think Contapps could become a must have application; the many unique features it offers sets it from the rest and hope to see some updates in the future that will fix the issues that I experienced.
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Contapps Contacts
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Contapps Contact Facebook Feed
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Contapps Contact Twitter Feed
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Contapps Contact Details
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Contapps Contact Profile
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Contapps Contact Google Maps Location
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Contapps Contact Web Search Results
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Contapps Dialer
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Contapps A-Z Search
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Contapps Gesture Search
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Contapps Settings
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Contapps Help
Usefulness:
Contapps has the potential to become a very useful phone book replacement. The ability to search your contacts numerous ways makes finding that certain contact simple and quick. With a little work this could become a stellar phone book replacement that would be a joy to use on my device.
Ease of Use:
There are moments where Contapps is a very easy application to use. However, at the same time I find the syncing of contacts to be very difficult and frustrating to use. Once that issue is fixed it should be a piece of cake to use.
Frequently Used:
There is an option to set Contapps as your default phone book/dialer. By doing so Contapps would more than likely become a frequently used application on anyone’s Android device.
Interface:
I do enjoy Contapps interface. It is clean and simple and makes using the application enjoyable. I really do like the color choices that were made and placed on this application. It is sure to go with almost any device.