Peeps

By Matt Sawyers - Last updated: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 - Save & Share - Leave a Comment

Peeps is a new and interesting way to view your contacts- by their pictures!

Pros:
-Cover-flow viewing of contacts
-Easy and quick setup
-Create your own groups.

Cons:
-Viewing in Cover-flow is fickle

When you first open the application, all you contact are loaded into the app. For me it only took about 5 second to import all 150 or so contacts.

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After that you’ll see a screen that has about 9 of your contacts pictures and their names are listed below them. You can scroll up and down to see your contact via their pictures. If you tap on a picture you will be able to see your contact’s info. Also within the multi-contact screen, you can create a new contact via the app by tapping on the “+” in the upper-right corner.

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By tapping the “Peeps” button in the upper-left-hand corner you will be able to view your groups and to create them as well.

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In the screen shot below I created “Mi Peeps.” Since I don’t have a whole lot of contacts with pictures, I began to create a list of contacts that do have pictures. I also accidentally added someone that didn’t have a picture, If you need to remove a contact from a group, tap and hold on the contact’s picture and you will have the option to delete the contact, remove contact from group or cancel.

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In creating the group of your choice, you can either select contacts from your existing Address book or create a new one.

While viewing you contacts, if you turn you iPhone on it’s side, then you can view you contacts in an “cover-flow” format as your would on you iPhone’s iPod.app. Just like in the iPod.app when you tap on the album cover, you receive a playlist of that album, well in Peeps, when you tap the photo, you get all there contact information. This is a neat adaptation from the iPod.app.

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I however, found that the screen turned back from the cover-flow with the slightest tilt out of “landscape” view.

Overall:
I think this an interesting app especially if you have a lot of contacts with pictures, if you are like me and only 5% or so of your contacts have pictures, then this application is probably not for you. For people that do have a lot of contact pictures, I think this will be a “cool” way to casually flip trough your contact and show your friends, but, I don’t think it will be of great use in the event you need to call one of your contacts, especially if you are in a hurry.
I’d really like to see adjustments made to the accelerometers in viewing contacts in “cover-flow.” After writing this review once and then speaking with the Peeps support, I found out a little more about the app than before. So and information screen explaining how to display and edit contact would be a nice feature to have. At $1.99 I recommend this app for people with lots of photos in their address book. It also seems to be a nice way to update the photos of a contact a bit quicker than going through the contacts one-by-one in the Address book.

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More screen shots here.

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