A common issue many of us run into is how to quickly exchange contact information with someone.  Sure, most people still rely on business cards — but how many times have you misplaced a business card after an important meeting?  There’s good ol’ email — but then you have to search through emails to find the person’s contact information among the 300 messages you received last week.   There are specialized applications — like Bump for iPhone or Gwabbit for BlackBerry — that promise to exchange and save the contact information.  Why not make it easier and use a feature almost all phones have anyway?  Why not just use SMS?

That’s the idea behind the SMS VCard Add-On for BlackBerry smartphones.  Using this application, BlackBerry users can receive, import and send contacts using the SMS protocol.  Now, if one of your colleagues has a Nokia and you have a BlackBerry, you can swap contact information with Vcards directly through SMS.   If both parties use BlackBerry devices, they can likewise exchange Vcard contact information using the SMS VCard Add-On application.

Additional features include:

• • The ability to send Vcards by SMS to recipient numbers even if they are stored in an international format.
  • Choose the phone number to which you send the Vcard and the number you want to send (if there are more than one phone numbers in your chosen contacts).
  • Contacts having names with different language characters are correctly transmitted and received.

You can get the SMS VCard Add-On directly from the Gear Diary Software Store (and even download it wirelessly if you have the Gear Diary BlackBerry App Store installed).

The software is regularly $1.99, but if you use the coupon code GDWinterBliss at checkout, you will save an additional 15%.