- Google Contacts is prepping a new layout for contact profile pages.
- More info is being moved up top for easy at-a-glance access.
- We could lose the “About” section for a dedicated “Notes” view.
Google Contacts is definitely one of the company’s most under-appreciated Android apps, but for the easily overlooked, all too utilitarian role it often plays, it’s still been getting a solid amount of attention from developers over the past year. That’s brought it some nice new features like Calling Cards, and work’s actively underway to make those even better. Today we’re checking out another corner of Contacts that’s due an update, as Google tries out a new look for profile pages.
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Right now, Contacts has a small bloat problem. When we were just saving names and email addresses, it was easy enough to nicely display everything, but your modern Contacts profile has quite a bit more data to include. Here’s how that looks today:
