0.8.3
- added favorites
- added full integration with address book (search from a contact with poynt)
- add a listing to the address book
- manage your favorite locations
- clear your search history (in options and settings)
- manually change connection type (in options and settings)
- bug fixes

Download: http://m.mypoynt.com

Thanks to all the feedback we received, I dropped in a couple more features:

1. Ability to switch between km and mi – Click the menu button and click options and settings.
2. Change the font size of list items – ” ”
3. Add listings to your address book – Click on the listing and click add to address book
4. Fixed a few bugs here and there, you probably won’t notice
5. Sorry no other mapping options yet, but we’re working on it!

Until our mobile versioning system is in place, automatic updates are turned off so you can manually go to m.mypoynt.com and re-download it. Automatic updates will work as soon as we turn that feature on from our end.

Also your browser might have a problem with caching. If when you click on the link it says the version is 0.7.8, hit refresh and it will update to 0.8.0.

For all new users this won’t be an issue.

I’m the developer that wrote Poynt. Here are some answers to the good questions people have been asking:

1. Mapping
We are looking into other mapping applications for use with Poynt. We would include them as options that the user can switch between when mapping. To my knowledge, there is currently no publicly available way for 3rd party applications such as Poynt to plug into google maps mobile…. yet

2. Cell site locates
This is in response to Nikolaus about triangulation. Although Poynt currently does not use cell towers to achieve GPS locates, we are investigating the best approach to give users a good experience, so users may see this feature in the final product.

3. Manually setting your location
To eliminate any confusion, you can manually set your location by clicking on the top bar and selecting new search location. From there, enter a city, zip code address or landmark and then you can set your search location to one of the results.

4. Location confusion
We added a feature called IP to location, which essentially takes the IP address of your connection and translates it into a location when you first start the application. This is why Nikolaus was able to get his location so fast.

The problem with this approach is that phones don’t have their own IPs; they are assigned to them when and where the connection goes out on the wire. In Randy’s case, his connection went out on the wire in Astoria, even though he was searching from Jamaica.

We have completely removed this feature from the application. It was originally intended only for wifi and BES users, but even then confusion can arise.

Thanks for all your feedback. The more feedback we get during the beta period, the better the final product will be.

@ Nikolaus – I used the mapping feature and it worked great, but google should take over this app but keep the features first app Ive used that works fast without a lag when scrolling.

@ Danny – Doesnt ATT come with built in GPS for the blackberries?