How do I send a contact via SMS?

Question

I have a Nexus One with Android 2.2. I would like to send two contacts (name+phone nr) to one of my contacts. This is a simple menu-option on my old Sony Ericsson.

How can I do this on Android?

I'm not in the same building as the receiver so I can not use Bluetooth.

Answer 1

Surprisingly, you need a third party app.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/shareContacts.NS.com

Answer 2

A new app from an XDA developer just hit the market: Share Contacts

Share Contacts is an application to Send and Receive Contacts via SMS. It provides facility to pic contacts from phone, customise it and send business card by SMS. It can recognize the messages having business cards and provide facility to save them in Phone.

Here are main features of application:

• Send contacts by SMS.
• Pick up contact information from saved contacts.
• Send customised information.
• Filter SMS with Business Cards.
• Retrieve contact information from SMS.
• Save retrieved contact information into Phone contacts.
• Add contact with Google Sync.
• Integrated with Phone application.

Answer 3

Is there an add text > contact option when writing an sms? I can do that in Galaxy S 2.1

Answer 4

On HTC Desire HD (Froyo) whilst composing an SMS: Menu > Attach > Contact(vCard)

Or is that a HTC Sense feature?

Answer 5

I know this isn't exactly what you are looking for but I have been using ChompSMS for over a year now, and it's super awesome anyway, if you use that then there is a little plus icon to the left of the text input, clicking on it brings you a list of picture emoticons, saved templates, and contact insertion. Another option is going to view contact in your phone book and then clicking menu and then share, but I think you were looking to send the info via sms which this doesn't appear to do on my htc inc w/ cy 7.03

Answer 6

Android 2.2 should natively support sending vCards using SMS. Pre Android 2.2, certain devices (like Galaxy S) had the option to send a vCard using SMS. I do think it's only possible to send one contact at a time. But there are plenty of apps on the Marker that can help you out with that.