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CNET Editors' review
The official Facebook for Android app is undoubtedly the best way to interact with Facebook on your Android smartphone. An overhauled interface (that closely resembles the iPhone app, we might add) presents seven icons for your news feed, profile, friends, photos, message in-box, events (like birthdays), and pending friend requests. Below the icon dashboard is a photo reel that lets you swipe through thumbnails of friends' recently uploaded photos, although there's no context surrounding the image until you click through to your buddy's profile page. Even then, you won't be able to enlarge the image until you click again.
The start screen is also home to a notifications bar that slides up to share the latest news. In addition, there are shortcut buttons for updating your status and searching your friend list or the global Facebook roster.
Though the update is a vast improvement to the feature-thin predecessor, we're still looking forward to seeing Facebook further refine the app.
Publisher's Description
From Facebook:
Facebook for Android makes it easy to stay connected and share information with friends. You can share status updates from your home screen, check out your news feed, look at your friends' walls and user info. Share photos from your phone, share links, check your inbox, and can even look up up to 125 friends' phone numbers from the home screen.
What's new in this version: Version 1.5.1 added deals, chat, and push notifications, and includes various bug fixes.
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4.0 starsout of 2 votes
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"Facebook deserves better than this on the 'droid"
Version: Facebook for Android 1.5.1
Pros
Great presentation laid out in a similar fashion to the iPhone version. Photos are presented well with easy access to albums. Places now available on the 'droid version.
Cons
onnection problems (despite running on a newly formatted Samsung) plague the software which stops the app gaining an extra 2 stars. Get it sorted Facebook and you've got yourselves a flawless product. Also unable to "like" comments.
Summary
For the most part this app works OK but when it stops connecting properly you are so much better off just throwing your phone over to the browser and running Facebook from there instead. It's a shame that the connection issue exists as this is a great app otherwise. But these connection issues can... and do render it unusable at times.
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"Facebook deserves better than this on the 'droid."
Version: Facebook for Android 1.5.1
Pros
Great presentation laid out in a similar fashion to the iPhone version. Photos are presented well with easy access to albums. Places now available on the 'droid version.
Cons
Connection problems (despite running on a newly formatted Samsung) plague the software which stops the app gaining an extra 2 stars. Get it sorted Facebook and you've got yourselves a flawless product. Also unable to "like" comments.
Summary
For the most part this app works OK but when it stops connecting properly you are so much better off just throwing your phone over to the browser and running Facebook from there instead. It's a shame that the connection issue exists as this is a great app otherwise. But these connection issues can... and do render it unusable at times.
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