If you have a phone filled with lots of contacts, you have probably had the experience where you can’t remember someone that ends up in your phone. If you were obsessive about your contact list you would have entered notes about that individual in Outlook or Salesforce. Unfortunately most people don’t go through this process and as such many names can end up meaningless.
As such the developers of FriendSync have come up with an easy way to sync your contacts on your phone and get their photos from Facebook. As was the same issue with most users of the application according to the reviews on iTunes, the application crashed the first time I tried to use it. Given that I have almost 2,000 friends on Facebook I’m guessing that it’s more challenging to sync all my contacts.
The idea makes a lot of sense though. After numerous tries I have still yet to successfully sync my accounts so I guess this means the application has some serious work to do. So should you go ahead and download FriendSync? Probably not. The application is not ready for primetime but the company continues to develop the application and fix the bug they could definitely attract a lot of users.
Currently the company is charging $1.99 for the application which is a bit ridiculous considering that it doesn’t work. I was willing to pay since it is a business expense but based on the reviews I was expecting it to crash my phone. Thankfully I have an iPhone as a test platform for applications so I wasn’t really concerned.
I’d guess that we’ll see Facebook integrate many of these features in the near future but for now this application has the right idea. If you want to risk your contact list just to test this application go download the FriendSync application. Be warned though, there are people that have had their contact list completely deleted so it may not be the best idea.
