Smartr Contacts for iPhone now available!
By Michael Albers
Xobni is very excited to announce the release of Smartr Contacts for iPhone!
A few months ago we introduced Smartr Contacts for Android and announced that Smartr Contacts was coming to iPhone. Since then, we’ve gotten great feedback on the Android product, and have been astounded by the level of interest in the iPhone app. In fact, tens of thousands of people asked to be notified when it was available. Boy, did that motivate the team to bring what many have called “the world’s best address book” to the iPhone!
So now, in addition to having products for our Android, BlackBerry, Gmail, Kindle Fire and Outlook users - we can add iPhone to the list of platforms we support! w00t!
For anyone who uses Gmail or Outlook, this free app will transform your address book into one that is smart, easy to use and automatic. Essentially, we create a profile for every person you’ve ever communicated with, even those who aren’t in your iPhone address book - Automatically.
So, what does Smartr Contacts do for you?:
- Automatic Address Book - Imagine having an address book that automatically identifies and maintains the names and contact information for everyone you communicate with.
- Smart Contact Discovery - Enabled by the Smartr Cloud, contacts are automatically discovered from email data (currently Gmail or Outlook), as well as data from social networks.
- Rich Profiles - A complete profile is created for each contact, including a photo, job title, phone numbers, company details, email history, common contacts and info from Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
- Robust Search - Search by name, initials, company, title, email, phone and more to make finding anyone fast and easy.
- Ranked by Importance - All contacts are ranked by importance, not alphabetically, so the most important people are at the top.
A video of the Smartr Contacts for iPhone can be found here, but thought we’d also list some of our favorite features:
- Home Screen - The app home screen offers a great way to explore all your contacts by showing highlighted Facebook photo’s or Twitter updates.
- Browse Contacts - Clicking the search box, immediately allows you to peruse or search your network and instantly see all your contacts ranked by importance.
- Rich Profiles - Of course the robust and rich contact profiles!
- Swipe the social tab to see all the networks and click to see the latest updates (either opening the native app or website)
- The Details tab show you the emails and phone numbers in ranked priority allowing for 1 click access to call, SMS or email a contact
- The History tab highlights your communication history and your recent communications for everyone (you can’t open these messages yet, but that is coming soon)
- The Common tab is a crowd pleaser, showing all the people you have in common with each contact (now you can’t forget anyone).
In addition to these features, we’re already working hard on additional features and functionality coming soon via an update, including contact editing, design updates and the ability to view emails within the app.
We hope you enjoy Smartr Contacts for iPhone, and welcome your feedback and comments. Simply click the “Email Feedback” button in the app settings screen.
Smartr Contacts for iPhone is available for download from the iTunes App Store.
Enjoy!
The Xobni Team
Smartr Contacts Tip: Get your widgets!
Add the Smartr Contacts Widget to your Android homescreen to ensure your contacts are always close at hand. With the widget, you’ll have one click access to search all your contacts or compose an email to multiple people.
We think it’s a lifesaver and hope you do too!
Adding the Smartr Contacts Widget is easy:
- From an empty spot on your screen, press and hold until the menu appears
- Select the Smartr Widget (Large or Small) from the list
- You’re done!
Smartr Contacts Tip: Contacts in Focus
You may notice that sometimes on the Smartr Contacts home screen, you see a “focused” view of single contact. What is this?
- The contact in “focus” is displayed in 4 squares and is surrounded by photos of all the contacts you both have in common
- Tap any photo to view the complete profile details for that contact
This is a great way to explore your contacts and find those with whom you may have lost touch.
Smartr Contacts Tips
As you know, there are loads of great features and functionality in Smartr Contacts for Android and we want to make sure you can make the most of the app - So we are starting a series of tips for both the Android and Gmail products - We hope you enjoy!
Tip #1 - Smartr Contacts ranks everyone by importance, so the people you talk to the most are at the top.
- Swipe the contacts screen up or down to scroll through all your contacts
- Use the search bar at the top to search by first or last name, company, title or phone number
Smartr Contacts keeps all your contacts close and your important contacts closer!
Get the Smartr Contacts for Android update!
We’ve got a new version of Smartr Contacts for Android, just in time for the holidays. We’ve added some great new features and made some key bug fixes — This is an update you don’t want to miss.
- To download this release (Version: 1.5.814) go to http://xobni.com/adl
- To make this easier in the future, enable Auto-updates on your phone, by clicking the menu tab from the Android Market
- For those early Alpha and Beta testers, you’ll need to uninstall the old app and re-install Smartr Contacts from the Android Market.
Here’s what’s new:
- Fixed issues some users had when adding Gmail accounts.
- Support for moving the app to an SDCard.
- Fewer app notifications.
- Home screen swipe improvements when sliding between the pictures and calendar.
- Search your Smartr Contacts by area code or phone number.
Thanks again for all the feedback and keep that feedback coming. We love it.
Latest updates to Smartr Inbox for Gmail
Version 0.1 Production-68
We’ve just pushed another update to Smartr Inbox! This smaller release features a handful of goodies that you’ve been asking for. If you’ve already have Smartr Inbox installed, it’s easy to get on the latest—just refresh your Gmail page. You can also download it for free on our website.
Main highlights include:
- Support for the Preview Pane lab in Gmail!
- New minimalist Smartr theme
Thanks to this addition, your Smartr sidebar can sport the same signature red accents and clean look as Gmail’s “Light” theme.
Changing your theme is quick and easy. Just use the Smartr dropdown selector and choose the red/white box.
- Improvements to the minimized state
If you’ve never minimized the sidebar before, all you need to do is to mouse over the left edge of the sidebar and click to minimize. Done!
Xobni - Nominated as Top Sales Productivity Tool 2011
Xobni and Smartr are priceless for Sales & Marketing professionals as these products allow them to take relationship management to a new level. In the Sales world, your contacts are your business and both Xobni and Smartr make finding anyone you’ve ever communicated with incredibly easy!
Xobni has been nominated for “Top Sales Productivity Tool” as part of the Annual Top Sales & Marketing Awards 2011 and we need your votes to win!
New Features and Fixes for Smartr Inbox
By Angel Steger
Great news! We’ve made some recent additions to Smartr Inbox for Gmail, including some much requested bug fixes. You won’t want to miss out. If you’ve already have Smartr Inbox installed, just refresh your Gmail page. Want to try it out? You can also download it for free.
Here’s what’s new:
- Support for multiple Gmail and Google Apps accounts
Now, you can easily switch between your Gmail and Google Apps accounts in the same browser. - Intelligent phone number extraction
Smartr Inbox automatically finds phone numbers in your email messages and adds them to your Smartr contacts, so you don’t have to do it manually. Want to know where we found the number? Just mouse over it and we’ll show you a snippet from the original email.
- A new look for Relationship History
We’ve exchanged our sparkline graph to a more elegant bar graph. Roll over a bar and see three subject lines from that week.
- Improved autosuggest performance
- Support for international characters
Thanks to everyone who worked with us on this! If you were experiencing this issue, here’s how to fix it. - And more! See the complete list.
We hope to see you on the latest version! Got ideas or feedback you’d like to share? Visit our forum. Keep your feedback coming—we’re listening :)
New Hire: Mike Rizkalla from webOS to head up Xobni Mobile
It’s not every day that you’re able to hire one of the top engineering leaders in the mobile space - but today is our day (Ryan at GigaOm caught wind before we posted). We’re beyond thrilled that Mike Rizkalla has joined the Xobni team, overseeing engineering for our Mobile products.
Mike came from HP’s Palm Business Unit, where he led application development for webOS. But greener pastures awaited him at Xobni. In his management role, he’ll be overseeing production direction and strategy, carrier readiness for mobile apps and platforms, performance, scale, and pretty much all things mobile.
Welcome, Mike!
On Facebook, it’s now 4.74 degrees of separation
The old “six degrees of separation” adage appears to be shrinking quickly!
92% of Facebook users are separated by only 4 degrees from any other user, according to analysis Facebook calls, “the largest social network studies ever released.”
“The average distance in 2008 was 5.28 hops, while now it is 4.74,” Facebook says. You can learn more about Facebook’s newfangled spin on 1960s social psychologist Stanley Milgram’s experiments to prove that people are separated by only six contacts here.
Facebook is not the only place where you can see your network connections. With the common contacts feature in Smartr Inbox for Gmail and Smartr Contacts for Android, you can see all the people you have in common with any contact so you can easily grow your network. Simply select any contact in Smartr and select the common contacts tab (show the icon maybe) and here you can easily see all your mutual contacts and drill into each person’s profile. Now you can truly see how small the world really is.
