TUAW Responds: Adding a Stand-Alone Contacts Application to your iPhone

January 28th, 2008 | Category: iPhone Talk

Filed under: iPod Family, Hacks, How-tos, iPhone

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I can’t tell you the number of readers who have written in asking for a stand-alone iPhone Contacts Application. It’s not something that I particularly was trying to solve for myself (I don’t mind tapping Phone next Contacts) but that daylight, I stumbled on a simple way to achieve that on your 1.1.3 iPhone.

This is, I’m afraid, right now a command-line only solution although it’s relatively easy to automate. Someone from modmyifone should be along

any second to offer an Installer-based solution. Here are the steps:

Update: I’m hearing from readers that “Customize” an iPhone app has done that for previous iPhone releases. Hopefully they’ll have a 1.1.3 solution out soon. In the meantime, you can follow my steps by hand whether you like. It’s not difficult.

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