Quick Contacts for the Palm Pre is a photo-based contact manager. You can assign photos to your contacts and Quick Contacts will present a grid and page view, as well as launcher placement so you can call or SMS any given contact more quickly. The app lets you set preferred numbers for each contact, which will automatically used when the contact is selected. Picking a contact’s “hot spot” will let you pick between numbers or email addresses. You can reorder your contacts by moving to the list view. For each contact you can select custom backgrounds – making recognition much faster.

The motivation behind the app is easy to understand, but any implementation of this concept, even a good one like this one, will suffer from several issues. First, very few people have photographs of all their regular contacts (imagine business associates). That will mean by-passing this app and going through the regular route. Second, the photographs rarely appear as good as the ones in the samples. Overall, if this is something that works for you, Quick Contacts is very well implemented and there’s a lot of customization options to make it work well.