Palm Pre App Catalog. 30 Apps in 30 Days. Day 14: LinkedIn

Gear Diary is independently owned and operated. We receive compensation through advertising and from the companies whose products we review, usually in the form of the reviewed product. We test the products supplied to us, and the opinions expressed are our own.

Gear Diary is also reader-supported. When you buy through links posted on our site, we may earn a commission at no cost to you. You can learn more by clicking here.

mobile_2009-13-08_222052

I have to admit that I am not terribly interested in social networking.  Email is usually enough for me, though there are a few sites which I do find to be particularly enjoyable or useful.  One of those sites is LinkedIn, a social networking site for business connections.  As much as I enjoy LinkedIn however, I have always found their mobile versions to be a bit lacking.

True to form, the Palm Pre version of the site continued to disappoint.  While it does a good job of organizing your LinkedIn contacts, it does not offer any of the advanced features which are available on the website.  Without them, LinkedIn ends up being little more than an organizer for your email contacts.

mobile_2009-13-08_220744

Sure, from here, you can view all of the pertinent information about your contacts, and even send them a message, you really cannot do anything else.  You cannot view your newsfeed.  You cannot view 2nd and 3rd level connection recommendations.  You cannot view your groups.  Pretty much the only other thing you can do is look at your LinkedIn inbox (below) and send messages.  For anything else, you are going to have to use the full website.

mobile_2009-13-08_220814

If all the Linkedin App was going to offer was access to your contacts, I would have preferred that this information by synced with the main contacts list.  This would have made it a far more powerful tool, which could keep your contacts up to date and current.  By not syncing, all this app really allows you to do is use your LinkedIn contacts to send emails.  I love LinkedIn on the web, but I continue to be disappointed by the seeming lack of effort which makes it inaccessible on a mobile device.  What a disappointment.

As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Thanks for your support!

About the Author

Gear Diary Staff
Gear Diary was founded on September 30, 2006, with the goal to create a website that would not easily be labeled. Everyone who is part of Gear Diary is a professional who uses technology in their work and daily lives. On this site, we share our enthusiasm while exploring the gear we use — the equipment that makes our lives easier, more entertaining, more productive, and more manageable. Our hope is that Gear Diary visitors find this site to be a welcoming, friendly, and accessible place to learn about and discuss interesting topics — and not only those that are tech-related! Gear Diary is a place to discover and explore all kinds of new gear, including smartphones, computers, kitchen gadgets, Toys, EDC, camping gear, or even your next new car! You can follow us on Twitter @GearDiarySite.

2 Comments on "Palm Pre App Catalog. 30 Apps in 30 Days. Day 14: LinkedIn"

  1. I agree Doug- the LinkedIn applications really suck. The iPhone version isn’t any better. I use LinkedIn quite a bit for the discussion forum and there’s zero support of that on the mobile apps. I also found the iPhone version to be very sketchy at setting your status update.

    Oh, and I find most people on LinkedIn are what I’d term “suit and ties” — they’re people who have no idea about Social Networking but think that LinkedIn is the one site they should be on. So their updates are boring and they tend to be relatively dormant users – and boring.

    Some of the LinkedIn groups should really be re-titled “Recruiter Central” since they appear to have largely been taken over by job posters.

  2. I honestly can’t recall the last time I even logged in with the iPhone version … it is crap. Sad – because since discovering it during my layoff more than 18 months ago I have continued to build and expand my network and the groups I am involved with,

Comments are closed.