Promised earlier this month, Sony recently dropped version 4.0.02 of Socialife. The update, available only for Xperia smartphones at the moment, brings with it a new UI, some swipe gestures, and, most importantly, a 50% performance increase. Improvements and screenshots for the Socialife app available for your consumption, after the break.

Socialife, an app from Sony to read your social networking and favorite website feeds has been updated yesterday. With so many news readers out there, Sony’s Xperia and Windows 8 exclusive app has been given an overhaul that I think everyone can appreciate. Although only available for Xperia smartphones, the new features should be enough to hold users over till they make their way over to Sony’s other devices.

So what’s new? Opening up the app reveals a lighter, streamlined design. The ‘All Feeds’ portal allows you to quickly see your article headlines from all sources. From the main page, swiping to the left opens a detailed page view while swiping to the right opens the headline view. Load times of the app have dramatically decreased, being up to 50% faster. The refresh time when swiping to a detailed page view has also decreased.

Have a Xperia device handy? Try out the latest edition of Socialife and tell us what you think.

Discuss:

Have you used the Socialife app before? What do you think of these changes? If you’ve never used Socialife before, why not?

[Via Sony][Google Play]