If you’re addicted to updating your status, tagging photos or seeing who’s piped your score on Bejeweled Blitz, then you’ll be pleased to hear that the Facebook App for the iPhone has been revamped to make poking someone even easier.
Still available for the bargain basement price of £0, the Facebook 3.0 App brings in a number of new features with a completely different user interface.
Highlights of what you can do on 3.0 include being able to upload videos from an iPhone 3GS, the ability to write notes and create new photo albums, and being able to check out the site in landscape mode.
A full list of features involves:
– See your upcoming Events and RSVP
– See your friends’ birthdays
– See Pages and post updates and photos to Pages you administer
– Write Notes and read your friends’ Notes
– Upload videos from an iPhone 3GS
– Upload photos to any album
– Complete photo management (create albums, delete albums, delete photos, delete photo tags)
– Change your Profile Picture
– Zoom into photos
– Like posts and photos
– See the same News Feed as the Facebook website
– Visit links in a built-in web browser
– See all of your friends’ friends and Pages
– See mutual friends
– Easily search for people and Pages
– Make friend requests
– Become a fan of Pages
– Quickly call or text your friends
– Create shortcuts to your favourite friends and Pages
– Friends sorted by first or last name according to your settings
– Chat friends sorted alphabetically
Basically, if someone’s complained about it, this app has responded, making Facebook easier than ever to use when you’re on the go.
The Facebook 3.0 app is available to download from the App Store in iTunes.
2 thoughts on “Facebook 3.0 App Reaches iPhone”
Facebook seems to have jumped in a direct competition with other social networking companies. This application is really going to boost its fly.
Actually, the Facebook app was not in the Top Ten Free Apps for quite a while after the App Store launched — despite it being featured prominently by Apple on the front page. I know because I have closely tracked the performance of our top app (myLite), which broke into the Top Ten on July 19, about a week after the App Store opened. We were ahead of the Facebook app for several days after that, and they were not yet in the Top Ten, though we knew they would surely be surpassing us at some point. (I mean, we’re just a little startup!) Nonetheless, we have held solid in the 11-14 range since dropping down a bit from the top ten some days ago. So we, too, are wondering, my gosh, how many total users we must possibly have!? Since Apple is not reporting yet, we can take a cue from Facebook’s saying how many they have — but they don’t say how they know this. Perhaps their app calls home somehow and allows them to keep track?