PreCentral: Save Business Search results to your Contact List

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Performing a search in webOS for a business is one of the easiest tasks, simply by performing a google search right from Just Type or by using a variety of apps that have Just Type integration. You can quickly get an address, phone number or even the hours of operation, but once you navigate off that search results page, the data is gone and would require you to perform another search in the future. While that isn’t a difficult task to repeat, some of those apps will give you option to save the result to your contact list so you can bring it up again in the future, even if you don't have a network connection.

While there are quite a few apps that allow you to save a business search result as a contact, there are two that we find to work best: WhitePages and Jan Herman's (72ka) Google Maps homebrew app. WhitePages wins out in pure speed to bring up your search query, and also includes residential (people) searches as well as business searches. We have found that the Google Maps app takes a little extra time to load up before you can search, but you are rewarded with additional information in the contact record, such as hours of operation and website address. In both cases, the contact record will be added to your default synergy account

To add a contact from White Pages, just perform a search, select on the result you want and then tap the  button on the bottom of the screen. You will then have the option to add the phone number and address to an existing contact or create a new one.

To add a contact from the Google Maps app, you also start by performing a search (from within the app, tap on the "Google Maps" section of the header bar to bring up a search box). Find the result on the map and tap the  icon to bring up an additional pop-up, then select the "Info" option to view a detailed results page. Then all you need to do is tap the  icon on the bottom right and choose the "Add to contacts" options in the resulting pop-up. Unlike in the WhitePages all, the only choice you have to is create a new record.

WhitePages is available in the webOS App Catalog for free while Google Maps is available in the webOS Nation homebrew feed in Preware or webOS Quick Install.

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