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.
One of the more popular BlackBerry downloads out there is Facebook for BlackBerry Smartphones, which I believe has been downloaded several million times. As popular as Facebook for BlackBerry is, it was not without it intricacies.
The word “is” was hard coded into the status screen so whenever you wanted to change your status, the word “is” was always included after your name. Needless to say this annoyed all but 14 of the BlackBerry users that downloaded Facebook for BlackBerry.
To the 14 Facebook for BlackBerry using folks that actually like the hard coded “is” in the status screen, you can stop reading here. For everyone else, we are happy to report that the latest version of Facebook for BlackBerry comes without the hard coded “is”.
You can download the latest version of Facebook for BlackBerry OTA directly to your device right from the Mobile BlackBerry Home Page by visiting http://mobile.blackberry.com from your device’s BlackBerry Browser.
If you head over to DiscoverBlackBerry.com, the main BlackBerry site for individual consumers, you will see that the homepage, at the time of this post, is dominated by Facebook for BlackBerry.
The application has been out for a few months now. Are BlackBerry users really using it? Although I have an account, I really don’t use Facebook. A Linked In client for BlackBerry would be much more useful to me, but, I digress.
Does Facebook for BlackBerry deserve all the hype it’s getting?
by Robb Dunewood on November 20, 2007 · 2 comments
Berryreview found a knowledge base article in the BlackBerry Technical Solution Center that is more a less a comparison of the differences of the the Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones application and the Facebook Mobile site.
Believe it or not, one of the questions asked most often when we first posted about the Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones application was how did it differ from the the Facebook WAP site.
It looks like RIM was listening….
