Connect with Me on the Palm Pre
I’m excited to announce that last weekend marked the launch of a new way for professionals to leverage the power of LinkedIn: our first native application for the Palm Pre. For those of you lucky enough to have purchased a new Palm Pre, you’ll find LinkedIn as one of the free applications immediately available in the Palm Pre application catalog.
For those of you familiar with our iPhone application, you’ll notice that we’ve taken a decidedly different approach with this first version for the Palm Pre. We designed this application from the ground up for the new webOS platform. As a result, you’ll find the application features a simple but elegant set of features that integrate seamlessly into the platform.
With LinkedIn for the Palm Pre, you can easily view up-to-date information about any of your LinkedIn connections. We’ve also seamlessly integrated LinkedIn search into the interface – typing in a name will not only search your connections, but will also reach across the cloud to LinkedIn to search the entire LinkedIn network in the background.
Why walk into any interview, sales call, or client meeting without knowing the details of who you are meeting with? With LinkedIn, you’re able to type that name in a few minutes before the meeting, and walk in an expert.
LinkedIn for Palm Pre also debuts, for the first time, the ability to truly connect on the go. Not only does the new application offer the ability to send invitations, but also a clear and simple inbox to accept invitations.
We know that more and more professionals expect the ability to have the power of their professional networks wherever they go. We’re extremely excited to be a part of the launch of the Palm Pre, and this is one of many exciting new advances in mobile services that we’re planning for 2009.
To learn more, we’ve posted a new page on the LinkedIn website about the whole family of LinkedIn mobile products.
P.S. The most common question we have received to date is, “When will LinkedIn integrate with the new Palm Synergy address book platform?” Rest assured, this is something that we’ve already begun development on. Stay tuned.
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Mark Anderson June 16th, 2009
A colleague of mine picked up a Pre and when we went to compare his LinkedIn app to the one I have on my iPhone I was a bit surprised. The Pre app is very impressive. While I was a little disheartened I figure anything that keeps people connected to their LinkedIn accounts is better for the community even if you don’t use it yourself. Now I’m hoping with the iPhone 3.0 software we’ll see an update on that as well? Please?
Aditya June 16th, 2009
Any plan for Symbian phones?
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Ted Bruno June 16th, 2009
Is there, or will there be a LinkedIn application for the Blackberry Curve? If so, when do you anticipate that coming out or where can I get it? Thanks!
James Cham June 16th, 2009
I wish that it was easier to interface with LinkedIn via email. That way any email-enabled device would let me look up people or add them.
Dirk Frey June 17th, 2009
@ James I’ve forwarded your comment on to our product team. Thanks!
Jmartens June 17th, 2009
Why do you continue to moderate out my comments regarding Blackberry? This is probably the 5th time, on multiple posts in the past year.
Either allow all non-offensive comments or don’t allow any! Instead of deleting my comments and questions about LinkedIn ingnoring Blackberry, address them!
Dean Armandroff June 21st, 2009
I am glad the Palm Pre early adopters will have high quality, full access to LinkedIn. But I am surprised and confused by the lack of a true BlackBerry application. I know there are third party BlackBerry launchers and the generic mobile application, but these do not have many features and are severely limited. Since the BlackBerry is the most widely used device in the corporate world and LinkedIn focuses on professional social networking, the lack of a BlackBerry app makes no sense. The are less than 100,000 Palm Pre users right now in North America and there are literally millions of BlackBerry users. Yet LinkedIn thinks it is worth developing dedicated app for the Palm Pre and not worth it to develop one for the BlackBerry — very bizarre thinking.
Please make a fully featured, true BlackBerry LinkedIn app. Thanks.
Michael June 22nd, 2009
I have a Palm Pre and I have the LinkedIn application running. In the photos in your article, there are a series of small icons below the “add contact” icon and the “refresh” icon. Is this associated with the Palm Pre LinkedIn application? I don’t have those on the application I’m running. If they are associated with Palm Pre application, what do they do? One of the icons looks like a file folder, another says “Left”, and one looks like a highlighter.
Thanks!
Michael
David Radcliffe June 22nd, 2009
Any chance there is a Windows Mobile app in the works? I would love that and I think there are a lot of professionals who would use it as well. Thanks for your work!
Dean Armandroff June 22nd, 2009
I am not sure why my previous comment on this posting did not stay up, but I am not exactly sure of LinkedIn’s priorities here. The Palm Pre has only about 100,000 users right now. I am glad those users will have a great app, but there really needs to be a proper BlackBerry app. The current mobile version for LinkedIn is not full-featured enough. There are millions of BlackBerry users and most professionals — the backbone of LinkedIn — use BB’s. We desperately need a real, full-featured BlackBerry app; it is inexplicable that there isn’t one.
Dean Armandroff June 22nd, 2009
By the way, I have asked this question about getting a BlackBerry LinkedIn app in a direct question to customer service and in a couple of forums on the site. I have never gotten any sort of answer. What’s the deal with LinkedIn and BB? Is there some sort of corporate level dispute or conflict?
Dirk Frey June 30th, 2009
@Jmartens- We are very aware of user interest in a Blackberry mobile application and we ourselves are very interested in supporting all the major mobile platforms, but at this time we can’t announce anything for the Blackberry.
seo web development July 1st, 2009
Didn’t know these apps existed, and I’m now deciding between the iPhone, Palm Pre and Blackberry. Great to know, so thanks.
güncel blog July 10th, 2009
James I’ve forwarded your comment on to our product team. Thanks!
Daniel G July 15th, 2009
Is there a plan to develop this applications for Blackberry? What would be the target date for the BB release?
Jeremy July 18th, 2009
LinkedIn the number one business phone used today is a blackberry. How do you not put out an app for blackberry?
” RIM’s consumer smartphone market share increased 15 percent to nearly 50 percent of the smartphone market in Q1 2009 versus the prior quarter, as Apple’s and Palm’s share both declined 10 percent each.” They are closing in on 60 percent of market. This Is for USA market only.
Shawn August 13th, 2009
It is rather frustrating that a phone that has only been out for a little over 3 months has a linked in app and the Blackberry still doesn’t. Do you have ANY plans of getting one put together for those of us who use our BB’s more than the computer? As Jeremy stated, Blackberry’s share a LARGE chunk of the market. Thanks
Robin September 7th, 2009
Ok, I just downloaded this. WHAT A DOWNER!!! Sorry LinkedIn but there is functionality with this which would be AWESOME TO HAVE! The way you have it set up is like a giant contact manager basically. This is what it needs to be even useful:
1) Why can’t we see our Groups or access Groups? No way to get to those.
2) Can’t look info outside of your own contacts.
3) You should also be able to search the whole LinkedIn network to find new contacts or look people up. You mention in your description, you can look someone up before your interview etc. but not if you can’t search them. Where is the search feature? The one I downloaded today you can’t search or put names in for anyone.
If an app is supposed to make things easier to use this one sorry is not yet there and it might be better to use the exact site although it is more cumbersome on a mobile. I hope there are updates soon!!! I would LOVE to use this app more efficiently. I saw these same comments on the Apps Library on the Pre but decided to try for myself.
If all of these are addressed and I totally missed the ball, it would be great if there could be video or tutorial on how the best use the features I mentioned above. THANKS and SORRY FOR LONG WINDED COMMENT :)
Adam Nash September 8th, 2009
Hi Robin,
Thanks for the comment (even the tough parts). I have some good news & bad news here.
First, the good news. As per the Palm Pre UI guidelines, our search functionality is integrated into the Connections screen and triggered by keyboard entry. So if you just start typing on the keyboard, it automatically begins a search. More importantly, it instantly does a prefix match against your connections, and then does a background search against all of LinkedIn. I can imagine how frustrated I would be with the application if it didn’t have search!
Unfortunately, we’re seeing several people report the same issue – they aren’t discovering the search functionality. As a result, we’re releasing a new version of the application to the Palm Catalog this week (pending approval) which will make the search box prominent and always visible from the Connections screen.
On the bad news side, we don’t yet have support in our mobile products for LinkedIn Groups. But we appreciate the feedback & interest here, and it’s definitely on our list for potential enhancements.
Take care,
Adam
JD At September 10th, 2009
Since the App exists why not make it work like the Facebook app does and have the Linkedin profiles import into the contacts feild as an account?
Is this something that is coming or will linkedin always be a stand alone app with no integration into the Pre’s contacts function?
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Byron Sanford October 13th, 2009
I too would like to add my voice to the chorus requesting a native Blackberry application. I love linked in and use it extensively as a networking tool, but feel very hampered in using it out of the office, as I find the mobile web site to be too cumbersome for easy use on more than an occasional basis. A goo Blackberry App would make LinkedIn an incomparable business tool. Please make this a priority!
Mack Sullivan October 20th, 2009
I can also add my name to the hat of requests for a Blackberry app. I would use Linkedin significantly more if I could access it more easily. I certainly don’t use Linkedin as much as I do other networking sites that have dedicated blackberry apps.
Bee70 November 9th, 2009
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