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Get Faces for Your Contacts Fast With My Face

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Get Faces for Your Contacts Fast With My Face

Price: FREE    Score: 9/10    By M. SchustermanMy

Having a picture that corresponds to everyone in your iPhone’s contact book is a cool feature, but few people take the time to actually load those pictures in. My Face, an app designed by Paragon Services, Inc., aims to make the whole process much simpler.

The upside: After you enter your info and load your own picture, your work is done. And the process doesn’t take long at all; when you open the app, go into Settings and enter your phone number, initials, country and carrier. Tap “Choose My Picture” to either take a pic of yourself or select one from your photo album, then back on the main menu, tap “Upload My Picture.” To ensure no one else uploads a photo assigned to your number, My Face will send you a text with a link you must tap to confirm. After that, your picture is up and you’re done.

Another plus: You’re in control of what picture is assigned to your contact information in other people’s phone books.

The downside: Of course, the only way the pictures will pop up in your contact book is if your contacts are also using the My Face app. But honestly, I hesitate to call that a downside; this app is free, it takes half a minute to set up, and after that your picture is automatically in your (My Face using) friends’ iPhones, and vice versa.

Something I think is important to point out is that this app is independent of social networking sites – I admit that when I saw the name, I thought it had something to do with Facebook, and I dislike apps (or anything) that make me register with my Facebook or Twitter info. My Face doesn’t do that – your phone number is all you need.

You can use the “Tell My Friends” to email a little info and link about My Face to your friends, an easy way to get them in the loop and start seeing their smiling faces on your phone when they call. Considering it’s free and simple to use, I highly recommend downloading this one!

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My Face [iTunes Link] requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later and is compatible with iPhone. A small expedite fee was paid by the developer to speed up the publication of this review.

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iPhone App Review: My Face

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In the movie Robots, Bigweld tells aspiring inventors “See a need, fill a need.” That’s essentially the way I feel about apps in the iPhone app store: target a need that you see not being met (or not being met as well as YOU think you can meet it), and home in on that like a laser. My most-used apps do basically one thing and one thing well, and don’t try to be too ambitious.

My Face follows this development model, giving you a simple way to associate pictures with contacts in your contact list. To be more specific, it actually allows you to specify what picture you would like to be associate with your contact info in someone else’s iPhone, provided they are using the My Face app. It’s an interesting idea.

The basic idea is this: within My Face, you assign a picture from your phone to be your contact picture that others see when you call them. They are presumably doing the same for you. So every once in a while you fire up the app and hit “Get Contact Pictures” to see if anyone in your address book has uploaded a new image for themselves.

The app is straightforward: on the settings page you enter your contact info and first and last initial, plus the country you’re in and your carrier. This information is actually what’s needed to match up your picture with someone else’s contact database, presumably by searching for the phone number in their contact list and seeing if the first and last initials match.

My face worked flawlessly for me ; I tested it rather accidentally since I have myself in my contact list (don’t ask), so when I hit “Get Contact Pictures” after saving all my settings it assigned the pic I had just chosen as the contact picture for myself in my own phone. Confusing, I know, but it basically did it’s job. I tested it as well on another handset and it worked perfectly there too.

One negative mark against it was the setup. At the time I felt like I was entering a ridiculous amount of information, and then after sending that in I had to click a link in an SMS in order to validate the info. All for a contact picture? Looking back on it though it took all of twelve seconds and wasn’t that big a deal at all.

The other issues of course is that everyone you know must have this app installed in order for it to work.

My Face is a useful little app that does one job and does it well. It’s free and has iAd within the app. Right now you may not know anyone that has the app installed on their phone, but the only thing stopping your contact list from filling up with pictures is widespread adoption, so go ahead and give it a try!