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How many contacts do you have on your BlackBerry? Two of my friends, both working at an independent Verizon retailer, who have a contest to see who transfers more BlackBerry contacts. Honestly, they make my 100+ contacts look paltry. The current leader transferred 1,500 in one shot. Whoa. So I assume plenty of readers out there have hundreds, even thousands of contacts. How do you manage that? If I did, I’d check out acceloDex, a contact management application which makes it easier to scroll through your massive address book.

This is Storm-only software, which goes right along with our Storm theme post from yesterday. It makes the act of rifling through contacts a bit simpler. The most prominent feature is the ability to scroll by letter, which can make things a whole ton easier. Sure, you could always type in “J” to get to John, but this seems at least a little easier.

There are tons of other little features that help you get through your contacts in a more efficient manner. There’s an accelerated swipe scrolling feature which uses inertia to help you scroll faster or slower through contacts. If you’re scrolling through all contacts, and not by letter, a vibration will let you know that you’ve gone to the next letter (A to B, D to E, H to I, etc.). It will also display pictures next to contacts in your list. That might sound like it would slow down your scrolling, but with all of the other features it should still work just fine.

Contact management is an important issue with BlackBerry devices, and as far as actually getting through those contacts goes, acceloDex gets the job done in a smooth and efficient manner. You can get acceloDex at the BBGeeks Store for $4.99.

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