A company called Xobni has created a new contact management app called Smartr. After a long testing phase this app has now been released to organize your address book by making sure that people you contact most show up first. Its not just an address book but a way to make your current one work the way you want it to.
Your contacts will no longer be just sorted by name but by importance instead. Not only will Smartr can you have this better organization but now it will allow all contact profiles to have photos, job title, company details, email history, common contacts and information from social networks. As if this isn’t enough with Smartr you can access contacts from the home screen, main search bar, widgets, or the Smartr app itself.
Press Release from Xobni about Smartr:
SAN FRANCISCO, September 27, 2011 – Xobni, the leader in email and relationship management, today introduces a new sub-brand called SmartrTM to better encapsulate their growing suite of products. Also announced today was the public beta of the first two products under this sub-brand – Smartr Inbox for Gmail and Smartr Contacts for Android. These products are free and available for download immediately at Xobni.com (http://www.xobni.com), and soon in the Android, Chrome, Firefox and Safari app stores.
Smartr Inbox for Gmail has been in private beta (formerly Xobni for Gmail) since Q1 2011 and Smartr Contacts for Android (formerly Xobni for Android) went into private beta in Q2. “Both Gmail and Android have had a very active community of testers who have told us that these products make them smarter and more productive,” said Michael Albers, VP of Product at Xobni. “We’ll continue to listen to our users as we extend the Smartr product line, which includes iPhone.”
Smartr Inbox is a sidebar for Gmail and Google Apps mail that makes your inbox smarter. It automatically discovers all the people you’ve ever emailed, called or SMS’d, and instantly provides a full view of each contact. The Smartr sidebar includes lightning-fast search to instantly show who your contacts are, how you know them, when you last talked, and who you have in common. In addition, you’ll see their photo, job title, company details, and updates from LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
Smartr Contacts is a free app for Android that brings the ultimate in relationship management to your phone. Contacts are easily searchable and Smartr ranks them by importance, not alphabetically. Each profile is complete with a photo, job title, company details, email history, common contacts and info from social networks. The app can be accessed on your phone home screen, via the main search bar, the widgets, or the Smartr app.