Contact Lookup Application Thumbtacts Ships
Thumbtacts, by Crimson Research, a contact lookup application powered by kannuu’s search SDK for iPhone application developers launched in the App Store with over 10k downloads in its first week and holds a steady position in the Business section’s top 10.
Defined by kannuu technology Thumbtacts:
• Eliminates the need for a full keyboard.
• Track-backs to multiple and superfluous menus and settings.
• Prevents fumbling through an A-Z search, the frustrating auto-complete function, or the lengthy scroll and miss of the click wheel.
• Alleviates the need to remember only by first or last names with the kannuu algorithm indexing and retrieving any data entered in the Contacts fields such as nickname, job title, and company name.
To find a contact:
• Tap the Thumbtacts icon, not the phone or address book.
• Thumbtacts takes full advantage of iPhone’s large display, and ingenious Multi-Touch™ user interface and facilitates a one-handed search by presenting a set of four letters in an easy to navigate selection of up, down, left, right and center.
• Tap an option (a letter or character string) to proceed to the next set of available matches, or choose “More” if the characters aren’t presented, users eyes never have to leave the Spotlight-like field at the top of the screen as the word is built in only a few taps.
• Once the word is complete (usually in just a few taps,) taken directly to access the contact.
kannuu’s iPhone SDK can be integrated in an infinite array of web or native applications in need of an elegant search solution, adhere to Apple specifications and expedite mobile OS X application delivery by providing innovators with an efficient alternative to the time-consuming process of custom-coding advanced search functionality. kannuu enabled applications and will boost mobile content discovery and usher a needle-moving acceleration in the adoption of mobile services by creating an explosion of new search and find options for the consumer.
Thumbtacts, by Crimson Research (part of the kannuu developer’s network) demonstrates the SDK’s ease of use, becomes the default navigation vehicle with a precisely intuitive interface that relies on the easy to control four-way directional controller (up, down, left, right and center,) provides powerful abilities to search multiple fields, and presents the user with exact and correct results in only a matter of clicks.
