Xobni let us know that they have launched a new version of their popular BlackBerry app in App World. The new version boasts a few new features along with a slew of improvements. In case you don’t know Xobni tries to make a bit more sense of your contacts and address book providing you with context and relevance for each contact. Their new sync service is also really cool allowing you to sync to your desktop.
You can find the new version in App World at this link or read the full update feature list below:
New Features:
- A user can now use the convenience keys for launching the Xobni compose screen (in options)
- A user can choose to add a Xobni signature to outgoing emails
- Updated LinkedIn Login process
- New menu item labeled "Activate" allows a user to activate manually after purchasing a license
Summary of Improvements:
- Compose integration for Xobni should only occur for native messaging app (fixing bars showing in other apps)
- Xobni bar now shows up for draft messages
- Compose integration is enabled when sharing media files by email
- Fixed several compose screen defects that occurred when device was holstered or locked
- Further improvements in search speed
- Speed improvement in scanning emails, SMS, call logs
- Improvements during contact updates to Xobni One
- Improved failure handling during Xobni One updates (app closure, manual stop, failure, etc.)
- A user can take a picture for a contact image from the image selection screen
- LinkedIn login for devices at or below 5.0.0.405 will retry it’s connections upon failure
- New, updated and recurring Calendar events are now scanned and show in the Meetings section
- Ranking improvements when scanning messages
- SMS messages are shown for all phone number types
- Speed improvement while viewing contact
- General UI update in contact detail section
- Stability problem resolved on certain 5.x OS versions
