On the afternoon of September 21, version 2.70 of DrexelOne Mobile should be available in the Microsoft Phone Store. It runs faster, works offline and has more features.
Menus for Handschumacher and the University Club are now also on the merchant pages. Tapping a pinned tile for those merchants goes to the Menu tab that lets you select day and meal. (Other pinned merchants continue to display the Profile tab.)
Crash Information A new setting lets you send IT information about your phone and the state of the application any time it crashes. If the app crashes, you'll be prompted to choose whether or not to sent crash reports to us; this prompt only happens once.
Globalized to support regional settings such as the formats of dates, times, and numbers. (The app is still only in English.)
Fixed four defects impacting course lists, vendor lists, and the settings for push notifications and live tiles.
Mango-optimized
Takes advantage of new features in Windows Phone 7.5, including fast application switching.
Push Notifications
In Settings, students can activate push notifications to get alerts when grades are posted or holds placed on their records.
Secondary Tiles
Most pages can be pinned to the start screen to give direct access to commonly-used features.
Background tasks
Tiles for notices, academics, courses, coop, and balances can be updated in the background via periodic tasks. (See Settings for details.)
Photo Sharing
In the Pictures Hub, you can tap Sharing to get to go right to the Candid Campus photo submission page.
Status Bar
The time shows at the tops of pages; tap to see signal strength, battery power, etc.
Academics
Term-based information like course lists and grades now display like the conversation via in email so that prior and future terms can be compressed to reduce clutter.
Acknowledgements
Highlighted message on the Me tab are acknowledged once tapped. For example, if you have a course with new announcements, the Academcs item will highlight that; after you tap on Academics, the Me tab will stop highlighting Academics until the next new announcement arrives.
Photo Class Lists
Instructors can now send email to the whole class or to a group of selected students. Just tap to the left of the photos to display checkboxes (like in the email app), select the students that you want to write to, then slide over to the Contact tap to email them.
Campus map
Closely located buildings now show only one flag until you zoom in; this makes the display of the University City campus much less cluttered. Flags now better handle long building names.
Food+Shopping
Merchant hours are easier to read. Menus are available for many restaurants via FourSquare. Ask your favorite places to list their menus at foursquare.com.
Campus events
Check out what's happening on campus in News+Events on the Community tab. You can select events by type and get details for each event.
Candid Campus
Now you can write alternate captions and rate the captions.
Candid Question
Now you vote on the poll, write comments, and rate the comments.
Page Menu
Tap the elipsis at the lower right of pages to refresh data, pin to start, or choose a background photo for the page. (Menu animation fixed in beta 6.)
Feedback
Suggestions are now powered by UserVoice so that users can vote on ideas. Reporting of bugs has been streamlined. All features are availble from the Settings/About or Community/Release Notes+Feedback sections.
Merchant hours and open/closed status not yet timezone adjusted; the user's local day and time are treated as if the user were in Philadelphia.
Location Services:
Location services enhance campus maps, merchant details, and shuttle bus tracking.
Your GPS location information is never stored or transmitted by DrexelOne Mobile.
Live Tiles and Push Notifications:
When turned on, your accent color and a unique identifier for your phone is sent to Drexel so that we can compose the right tile and notification information for you.