Nice Idea, But...

I liked the idea of having photos next to the names as I scrolled through my long list of contacts, so I decided to download the application and test it out. At first it performed decently. The only real complaint that I had initially was the "jerkiness" caused by the hesitation of the contact list as you scrolled up or down. I didnt think much of this, as my contact list contains over 1,500 contacts, so I assumed that the hesitations were simply caused by the memory constraints of the iPhone trying to handle my large volume of contacts and corresponding photos.

My real complaint comes from an even that happened last night. I had added some new contacts, and was going back to add photos to these contacts using Visual Contacts. In the middle of adding a photo, the app crashed. That in and of itself didnt really bother me. But when I opened the application back up to continue adding the photos, I was shocked to see that ALL of my contact photos were gone. A quick check of the standard iPhone Contacts app verified this. Not only had the application not saved the photo I was adding, it had apparently corrupted my iPhone data to the point where all 1,500+ contact photos that I had were now gone!

Syncing the iPhone with my PC did not restore any of the photos, so I now get to spend my evening either manually adding the photos back or erasing my iPhone and doing a restore. Either way, I can honestly say that Visual Contacts will no longer be found on my device.

UKFanInTN about Visual Contacts