festivalnut - you were right, using the yellow status pop-up was indeed the right way to do it.

The program is now functional and I will upload it to the garage once opening the project is approved.
At the meantime, here's how it looks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viuhEDIjAIA



Next phase is to add a different contact address book for it, that will be used as a cache (to reduce the identification resolution time) and to allow the user to use the suggested identification and create a "real" contact.