LinkedIn overhauls its iPhone app

LinkedIn has updated its iPhone app today to version 4.0. It's actually more than an update -- it's a complete overhaul of the app. Version 4.0 features a totally new UI with quick and easy access to four areas of LinkedIn: your profile, account updates, your inbox, and groups. Tap on any one of those area's icons (the icons change in realtime to display what you last viewed in that area) to further view your LinkedIn world.

The old LinkedIn app had one of the ugliest UIs of any social networking app. The new version has one of the most beautiful. Much of that beauty comes from its simplicity, which makes navigation a snap. Not only is the app much easier to navigate, it's also faster (even running on my iPhone 3G).

If LinkedIn can do this great a job on an iPhone app, I'm extra hopeful they've got an iPad app waiting in the wings. I spoke with some people from the company a few weeks ago and though they didn't confirm an iPad app was coming, they coyly said "Stay tuned."

LinkedIn 4.0 is available in the App Store now. It is a free download.

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Source: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/linkedin/id288429040?mt=8

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Roy

The new IPhone app is just too much clutter and does not follow iOS conventions. Actually it has a control like Android slider, but is not a slider. The old UI was simple and elegant.

September 13 2011 at 3:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rku

Has anyone been able to access their Groups with the iPhone app? I've tried (and tried...) and can't. My groups simply don't show up in the "Groups and More" section.

August 25 2011 at 3:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Boj

i cant seem to find how to sync my new contacts on the linkedin app with my iphone address book with the new app as i could with the old one. can anyone help?

August 25 2011 at 12:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Glenn Broadway

Interestingly I just finished a study of the old LinkedIn App (on iOS and Android) comparing how well the apps adopt native UI conventions. I think this update is a step backwards (on iOS at least) - I'm not always fan of applications which think their own UI design is better than that of the device, and in a couple of areas this new LinkedIn app is guilty of doing it's own thing - badly.

August 23 2011 at 7:00 AM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply

Lakshmi Balu

It is a fact that HTML 5 is a viable framework and like for a LinkedIn app it is highly a necessity as its users primarily the student class to the entrepreneurs thriving in mobile space, the screen visibility being the immediate criteria I am glad that the new version is appreciated to this extent!
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August 18 2011 at 3:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply