This evening I’ve been playing around with Facebook’s new iPhone application and it’s definitely a significant upgrade from before. As mentioned on a number of instances, the new application includes events, Facebook page management, full access to the news feed, the ability to create and edit notes, video upload, and more. This iteration is a significant upgrade and given that the application has over 4 million daily active users and 12 million monthly users, this will be a much welcomed upgrade.
As I wrote on Sunday, Facebook’s new application has been submitted to the app store and is awaiting approval. In the meantime we’ve had the opportunity to poke around and so far the experience is much better than before. The only problem for me is that I can’t access my friends but that’s most likely a result of having over 4,000 contacts. The new application has many new features though as I’ve already mentioned.
The most useful features for me have been the ability to browse through all events in addition to having full news feed access.
Are Applications On The iPhone App Around The Corner?
The new layout of the Facebook for iPhone application suggests that there is room to add on additional applications in a fashion similar to the iPhone platform. While application notifications are now visible via the iPhone application, there are no other integration points for developers. With over 12 million users on the iPhone application alone, I’m sure developers would love to be able to add features that integrate into the app.
While Joe Hewitt, the developer of the application, hasn’t stated any intention to support additional applications, the new layout is clearly structured for additional features. While many developers have already built their own stand alone applications on the iPhone, smaller developers don’t have the resources to build iPhone applications in addition to Facebook ones. It will be interesting to see how this aspect of the application evolves over time.
Page Administrators Get More Control
For those page administrators that want to keep tabs on their Facebook Page all day long, you’ll now be able to access all of your page’s content from the iPhone application. You can post updates to the page, view users’ wall posts and post replies, and upload photos to your page as well. It’s a great addition that I’m sure many page users and managers will enjoy.
Almost Everything Is There
If you want to interact with Facebook on a daily basis, this application is pretty much all you’ll need. While videos are not yet playable in the application and push notifications have not been integrated yet, both features will most likely appear in the next iteration, which developer Joe Hewitt is already working on. What features would you like to see integrated in to Facebook’s iPhone application?
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If you have 4,000 friends on Facebook you maybe miss understand the point of facebook. It is not for contacts or followers, its for _real_ friends. You know people that you know and hang out in the physical world. Maybe you just have a huge amount of friends
Comment by James R. Skinner — August 18, 2009 @ 9:13 pm
The real question is…. CAN I PLAY FARMVILLE ON IT??
Comment by Amanda — August 18, 2009 @ 9:14 pm
I hope it comes out soon!
Comment by Denis Sinelnikov — August 18, 2009 @ 9:14 pm
A welcome upgrade indeed!
Comment by Sharlene Vinall — August 18, 2009 @ 9:59 pm
Gimme!
Comment by Steve Thomas — August 18, 2009 @ 10:44 pm
Looks good – the current version is really slow to update and is missing lots of important features.
And seriously, what's the point of having 4000 "friends"?
Comment by Daniel — August 19, 2009 @ 1:53 am
So when is this new Facebook app coming? I've heard so much but not a release date..
Comment by Nathan Millson — August 19, 2009 @ 1:57 am
I found nothing interesting on Facebook iPhone app from this interface. May be something different when i will start using it.
Comment by Eran — August 19, 2009 @ 2:28 am
Does it actually function like it was supposed to now?
Comment by Metal_Link — August 19, 2009 @ 5:04 am
I have over 3,000 friends on Facebook… I use my account (and pages) mostly to promote my events and other stuff I do, so having lots of contacts is good for the things I do in FB. About privacy… I have set pretty specific private settings, that just a few people can see my personal information.
Comment by Guillermo Carrion — August 19, 2009 @ 8:23 am
4000 friends or 4 friends .. Use facebook for however you want!
Comment by Mike — August 19, 2009 @ 9:58 am
Help on farmville ?
Look here :
http://www.farmville.eu/
Comment by Mogens Jørgen — August 19, 2009 @ 11:02 am
The new Iphone Apps is really amazing and people really loves to used it in their iPhone.
Comment by Iphone Application D — August 25, 2009 @ 10:20 pm
Anyone else's iPod touch miss the update till you went and searched for it?
The new app is MUCH better, good from you facebook.
One thing i still miss is the ability to receive pokes!!
Keep it up!
Comment by Ethan — September 1, 2009 @ 2:54 pm
Im having problems with the new facebook app. It no longer notifies me when ppl comment on either my status or a comment i posted.
Also, how do i upload videos?
Comment by Nicolle — September 2, 2009 @ 9:58 am
i have over 3000 friends and cant load them what is the limit ?? anyone know.
Comment by richard — September 3, 2009 @ 2:18 pm
I tried the latest version and must say it has lots of improvement .. Though One big feature which latest version miss is profile information editing..I hope they will add this in upcoming version
Comment by Meena Virgo — September 6, 2009 @ 6:12 am
Hi,
I'm looking for an app that I can set a limit on how many times per day I can access facebook on my iphone. Anyone know of anything like this? or maybe one that just pops up with a reminder saying "you've accessed fb x number of times already today, how about calling a friend?"
you know like those messages on Nintendo Wii
Please don't spam me about how great fb is & why would I ever want to limit my time on it!
Comment by Bob — September 22, 2009 @ 7:09 pm
How can IM on my IPHONE Facebook icon?
Comment by shelly Herron — February 23, 2010 @ 12:14 pm
can i play farmville on mt iphone?
Comment by donna franklin-pitts — March 6, 2010 @ 8:11 pm
why have a facebook app when you can just log on using the internet??…..
Comment by shawna — May 20, 2010 @ 10:04 am
Hi,
I have been using the iPhone app “Farmer’s Hero” for about a couple months now and love it. It is an app that collects the bonuses your friends have published in your newsfeed for you while you are away from Facebook and puts them in your giftbox in your Farmville game. I run it on my iPhone while I’m at work and also when I’m sleeping. It’s the next best thing to being able to play the actual game on the iPhone!
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2...
Comment by Natalie — June 6, 2010 @ 5:46 pm