Fun With iPhone Contacts’ Photos
Written on July 16, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 10 people have commented
If you’re one of the elite who rolls with an iPhone, you should really put some effort into allowing that beautiful screen to live up to its potential. For instance, try this.
Take a photo of your friends smashing their face/hands up against some glass (or have them scan their face/hands) and then apply that image as their contact photo in your iPhone. Then when they call, it’ll look like they’re trapped in your phone. Good fun!
Via Photojojo
Bill on July 16th, 2007 at 10:49 am
What I’m waiting for is an update to Address Book.app for greater congruence between setting a contact photo via the desktop app vs. setting the photo via the phone.
I absolutely adore how prominently the pictures are displayed of each caller (it’s like having larger-than-life baseball cards for all of my friends, only better) – provided you’ve set each contact photo on the iPhone. If you only set if via Address Book it comes up as a smaller-than-a-postage-stamp thumbnail.
I do hope this will be addressed in one of the early rounds of iPhone-related updates… and I hope those begin soon…
Jeff Fanelli on July 17th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Hmm, how do you get the contact photo to be ‘fullscreen’ on the incoming call? My contact photos just show up ‘thumbnail size’?
Panther on August 23rd, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Clever!
Xenostar on September 5th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Clever idea, when (and if) I get an iPhone, I’ll be sure to have a fun scan-face session with all of my friends.
claire on September 7th, 2008 at 8:16 am
haha wicked idea! do you know if you have to store all the pictures of your contacts on your iphone (e.g. in the photo roll) or can you delete them from the photo roll once you have assigned them to a contact?
gonger on January 18th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Ha THAT is awesome! Now if I can just get my friends to open up a little…