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neato! 1.0 will be bringing a lot to the table, including the ability to send stuff from your phone to a friend’s phone (provided they have neato! running on their phone). Because we’re working with two phones and not a phone and a computer, we have opened the door to sending some cool data types.

Like sending a contact to your friend.

So, here we go!

Here you see that your send scene is different. Below the “Send This” button, there’s an “Attach Contact” button. Tapping this will present you with the standard People Picker and you’ll be able to select the individual contact you’d like to send to your friend (I’m sending former Palm Dev Relations Guru Dion Almaer’s info to my webOS Emulator in this example).

Once you select a contact, you’ll see their name and their picture to confirm you’ve selected the proper contact. Note that attaching a contact will erase whatever text you might’ve had in the standard text field. To cut down on message size, you cannot send a message and a contact at the same time.

After tapping the “Send To” button, neato! will work its magic and your friend will get an alert (no matter what app they have active) asking them what they’d like to do with the newly received contact.

As you can see, you can ignore the message, or save the contact info to update an existing contact, or save it as a brand new contact.

Right now, I’ve got it sending the contact, but saving isn’t done yet. Shouldn’t take long. I haven’t put the effort in yet, but as of right now, it’s quite possible that contact sending will be limited to webOS 1.4.5 and below. Don’t worry — that doesn’t mean NO webOS 2.0 support. It’ll just come in a point-release soon after.

So, that’s where we are right now. Things are ramping up in my day-to-day world, so I might not get this out by the weekend like previously planned, but expect it either right before Christmas, or right after, if not this weekend.