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- Price: Free
- Operating system: BlackBerry OS 4.x, BlackBerry
- Date added: April 22, 2009
- Total Downloads: 88,325
- Downloads last week: 1,784
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A newer version of Facebook for BlackBerry is available.
(Download doesn't provide access to previous versions of this program.)
- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 6 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Jessica Dolcourt on June 09, 2009
Facebook for BlackBerry is the near-perfect symbiosis of functionality and ease. So long as you've set up your Facebook profile to receive messages on your mobile phone, you'll be able to use Facebook's core functionality--minus chatting--to interact with friends. What you lose in being able to use third-party applications you partially gain in the capability to upload photos from your phone directly to your profile.
Updating friend details can take some time, and it would be nice to see a few more features fleshed out, like searching for friends instead of merely inviting them. However, new features in the latest versions unite the two address books in a handy exchange that lets you call BlackBerry contacts from Facebook, and send Facebook messages and pokes from the BlackBerry address book. Being able to see friends' birthdays and social events in the native BlackBerry calendar was the extra touch that won us over. Also, the interface is cleaner than Facebook's mobile Web site and does an excellent job keeping the lifeline of your profile open until you can get to a computer to take your turn updating your third-party Facebook applications.
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Publisher's description
From Research In Motion :Hooked on Facebook? Now you can take Facebook with you on your BlackBerry smartphone wherever you go and stayed logged in as long as you want. Download this free application today and take connecting with your friends to a whole new level. With Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones, you have wireless access to: Home screen notifications so you know right away when you have a new Facebook event like a wall post, message or poke; The full text of new messages or wall posts, new photo tags and friend requests. Plus send your own messages, wall posts, pokes and friend requests; Your Facebook status and the Facebook status of your friends change yours from the road! * All of your Facebook contacts. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
Version 1.5 integrates your Facebook and BlackBerry address books.
CNET Editor's Note: The Download Now link will direct you to a form on the developer's site that you must fill out before downloading the app. Note that the application ranges from 700KB to 1MB depending on your BlackBerry model.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.5 integrates your Facebook and BlackBerry address books.
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Version: Facebook for BlackBerry 1.5
"Great. Keeps you in touch when out and away from home:)"
Pros: I recently have been a synthetic user of facebook. My dad died and I have times of feast or famine in use. On Blackberry it allows me to state my mood, what I am doing, or thinking at the actual time I am doing it. With immed. feedback at times.
Cons: The graphics could be a bit brighter. The photos a bit larger. It is a bit difficult to delete wall to wall messages. Over all it truly is a great application.
Summary: I am not very tech savvy or computer literate. This application on the Blackberry makes me feel as if I am God. I recently was on a trip with my daughter Kaitie who is learning to drive. This app. allowed me to post her photo driving on Interstate 1... read more >>
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Version: Facebook for BlackBerry 1.5
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Version: Facebook for BlackBerry 1.5
"Great UI, integrated feel, battery pull needed >install"
Pros: Significant interaction improvements, I really enjoy the address book linking to profiles on FB. New "slide" interaction is consistent with most new apps that are avail. Consistent feel, great improvement with 1.5!
Cons: Had to do a battery pull after install, as I was receiving terminatios of the upgraded build. 20s battery pull and FB runs like a champ!
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