Cost as reviewed: FREE
Whenever an app like this is released, I am immediately reminded of why I wanted an iPhone so badly and why I’m willing to cough up so much of my hard-earned cash to own one. I love using the Whitepages.com website. It is a great way to look up a person’s or business’ phone number and/or address. But in addition to that, it is also a great way to find out who called you when you don’t recognize the phone number on your caller ID. You can use the “Reverse Phone” lookup option that lets you enter a phone number and, if the number is listed, it will provide the owner of that phone line.
The application put together by Whitepages.com works really well on the iPhone in my experience and it has a nice GUI (GUI stands for graphical user interface for those who don’t know). Besides looking nice and working quickly to get you what you want (e.g. a business phone number), it has some other really nice features. For example, when typing in the name of the city in which the business or person is located, it will give you a list along the bottom of possible locations you are trying to type. You can enter the town so much more quickly with this feature. Also, as you might expect, it will display maps and directions to the location in an entry you find using the iPhone’s map feature and it will also add it to your contacts if you want.
I would say that this is one of those vital apps for the iPhone that everyone should have. Why bother looking up phone numbers and addresses on a website when you can use this app instead? Of course, the maps app will let you search Google’s database of businesses, but it doesn’t have residential listings or reverse phone number lookup service.
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