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Facebook For BlackBerry Smartphones 1.6 Goes Live At 6:00 P.M. EST

June 5, 2009 by Robb Dunewood 7 Comments

Facebook for BlackBerry Smartphones v1.6

Facebook for BlackBerry Smartphones 1.6 will be available for download this evening at 9:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time.

Some of the highlights and new features include:

  • Status updates and highlights on the home page – you can now view your friends’ most recent status updates right on the home page. Highlights like photo uploads and wall posts are just a click away and you can comment on a photo, poke a friend, etc. right from the home page.
  • Wall access from within Facebook for BlackBerry – with one click on your friend’s profile picture from the home page, you can access their wall without having to go to the mobile site.
  • Photo viewing in a simple, easy-to-use slideshow format – check out your friends’ latest photo albums with improved photo viewing, and view albums in a simple and easy-to-use slideshow format. Just scroll back and forth through the thumbnails along the bottom to display the larger picture in the center of the screen.
  • Facebook for BlackBerry 1.6 will also support three new languages:
    • Thai
    • Indonesian
    • European Portuguese

You should be able to download Facebook for BlackBerry 1.6 directly to your device via BlackBerry App World or by pointing your device’s BlackBerry Broswer to www.blackberry.com/facebook.

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  1. another says

    June 5, 2009 at 6:03 pm

    Robb, fix the headline, 6pm Pacific Time…
    9 pm Eastern. 🙂

    Reply
  2. The Rock says

    June 5, 2009 at 7:15 pm

    Doesn’t BlackBerry App World and the BB device alert that there are new versions of the app’s on the BB device automatically?

    Reply
  3. Tom says

    June 6, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    I downloaded 1.6 and rebooted and my Facebook is now gone and when I go to http://www.blackberry.com/facebook/mobiledownload I get “Device not supported”. I am using a STORM…anybody else have this issue?

    Reply

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