Just days after the INQ Cloud Touch, once called the first official Facebook phone, launched in the U.K., the device passes its first United States debut hurdle: the FCC. Rumors are swirling of a United States launch as soon as late summer, 2011.
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Prison officials can’t seem to confiscate inmates’ cell phones quickly enough, and many of the devices include Facebook applications that the prisoners use to regularly update profiles.
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The Facebook application for the Windows phone now includes the ability to check in to Places and tag photos.
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Facebook just unveiled a new dashboard for mobile phone users to see what information they share and adjust it on the go.
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People are clamoring for Facebook Places to become available worldwide, but alas, rumored availability in Israel and India is simply, well, rumor.
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As promised Facebook released the newest version (3.3.2) of their iPhone app today, with several upgrades including their new Social Inbox feature we covered earlier.
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This morning Blackberry announced that they have developed a new version of their Facebook application which also includes support for Facebook Places.
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Following Glympse into the integration of mobile location-sharing and Facebook, Pocket Web’s Pocket Life mobile social network now lets you see friends’ status updates and other information on a map in Facebook. There are a number of notable differences between Pocket Life and Glympse, addressed in the rest of this post.
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A new iPhone app allows you to record voice messages and post them directly to your Facebook profile. Called FaceMic, this new app takes advantage of the nifty new features of the iPhone OS 3.0 and provides a way for you to post updates, podcasts and other audio to your Facebook news feed. Just as with videos shared on your Facebook profile, the FacMic audio will play directly from your newsfeed.
Once you download the app to your iPhone (it costs 99 cents), there’s no registration necessary. FaceMic is integrated with Facebook Connect, so you can use your Facebook credentials to login. From there, you can pull up the app anytime, and start recording. Once you’re satisfied with the audio message, hit publish and it will appear on your Facebook profile.
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For those Palm users that were jealous of Blackberry owners who are able to access Facebook right on their phone, your desires have now been fulfilled by the developers at Palm. A new application enables users to access Facebook directly on the Palm® CentroTM, TreoTM 755p, and TreoTM 680 smartphones. I’m not aware of the number of Palm users out there but I’m sure there is a substantial number.
I have a better recommendation for the Palm users: buy the 3G iPhone! Alternatively, you could switch to a Blackberry if you didn’t want a full touch screen. Mobile web use is on the rise and applications like this one are helping continue that trend. There’s no word on whether or not this application was developed in conjunction with Facebook but based on Facebook’s involvement with the development of the Blackberry application, I would guess Facebook was involved with this app.
Back in April I wrote that the Blackberry application has been installed 1 million times. That trend has continued and while less than 250 people have downloaded the Palm application, I would expect that number to increase rapidly. If you are a Palm owner and would like to access Facebook from your phone, go install the Facebook® for Palm application. You can also download the application directly to your phone by going to http://mobile.palm.com/facebook.
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