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- Price: Free
- Operating system: iPhone, iPhone OS 3.x, iPhone OS 2.x
- Date added: July 29, 2009
- Total Downloads: 31,225
- Downloads last week: 1,022
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 3 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Jessica Dolcourt on August 28, 2009
Facebook's application for the iPhone and iPod Touch has grown leaps and bounds in this most recent release. It shines as a concerted effort to adapt the essential functionality of Facebook.com onto the iPhone and iPod Touch while adding perks distinct to the mobile experience. Facebook has expended a lot of time and energy to make the application mirror the interaction you can achieve online, and to make the interface easily navigable. Facebook accomplishes the latter with a new screen from which you can launch a total of nine activities, and read notifications as well.
We're also impressed by the application's ability to manage photos (and video, if you're on an iPhone 3GS) from your phone--deleting and creating albums from the phone instead of just viewing them. Other interactive qualities include RSVPing to events, changing your profile picture, and seeing friends of friends. You're also able to monitor birthdays--a highly requested addition--and view Pages you subscribe to. Another major new feature is the integrated Web browser, which keeps the Facebook experience within the Facebook app. In previous versions, clicking a link would open the Web page in the Safari browser, forcing you to leave the application and open it again to resume your place.
The logical design and sharp images make fulfilling your socializing obligations effortless, from reading and updating status messages, writing on walls, and composing and responding to messages in the in-box. The app is still not as robust as Facebook.com, of course: it still doesn't let you play with third-party apps. However, this version brings you closer than ever to capturing Facebook's real-time social networking from a mobile device.
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Publisher's description
From Facebook :Facebook for iPhone makes it easy to stay connected and share information with friends. Use your iPhone to start a conversation with Facebook Chat, check your friends' latest photos and status updates, look up a phone number, or upload your own mobile photos to Facebook. Even more features will be updated in the weeks and months ahead.
Version 3.0 gives users a lot more features available at the Facebook site, including RSVP to events, change your profile picture, read and comment on Notes, make friend requests, manage your photos, and much more.
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Version 3.0 gives users a lot more features available at the Facebook site, including RSVP to events, change your profile picture, read and comment on Notes, make friend requests, manage your photos, and much more.
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Version: Facebook for iPhone 3.0
Pros: Very good!
Cons: More features needed...
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Version: Facebook for iPhone 3.0
Pros: well ,now it`s said facebook is better than twitter and will make us smart it sounds great ,facebook in mobile also bring us a new way to express ourselves ,it`s owesome.so we can offer me a iphone and let me have a try ? just 4 fun. www.chinazrhcom
Cons: i can not find any reason to talk myself into hating it
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