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New version of Facebook iPhone app released

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Facebook have released a new version of their iPhone application. The 2.0 update adds many new features, including the ability to accept requests and post photos to walls. A new icon has also come with this release (see images).

WHAT’S NEW IN THIS VERSION:
Version 2.0 finally brings the most popular features of the Facebook website to your iPhone, including:  

* Notifications 
* The full News Feed 
* News Feed story comments 
* People search 
* Friend requests 
* Photo tagging 
* Photo captioning 
* Photo posts to your friends’ Walls 
* The full Mini-Feed, now combined with The Wall 
* Your entire inbox, plus the sent folder and updates tab 
* Inbox search 
* Message attachments 

This update now positions the iPhone as a serious contender for mantaining your online presense on the social networking site. What are your experiences with the update? Will you use the iPhone as your primary access point to Facebook now?

posted under Facebook, Technology, iPhone
5 Comments to

“New version of Facebook iPhone app released”

  1. On October 2nd, 2008 at 6:40 am Dan Says:

    Some nice features in this version! Looking much better IMO, I need to play with it more, to see if this would suffice me. I would much prefer my default Facebook destination be the iPhone.

  2. On October 2nd, 2008 at 12:35 pm Tim Says:

    I use to use Facebook about once a week, now I find myself going there more often because of having basically full access to features of the site on the go. I love being able to take a photo of my girlfriend at the beach and then upload it straight away to my profile. Also with the event of more and more people getting on Facebook the “What are you doing now?” status bar has more meaning because people can update what they are doing where ever they are, not just when they are behind a computer.

  3. On October 9th, 2008 at 3:52 pm Grant Says:

    HAHA nice reception from Virgin

  4. On October 9th, 2008 at 4:07 pm Tim Says:

    Hehe, yeah my house is right in this spot where i get full 2G reception, and a little 3G. I think because 3G is preferred I get switched to that, and when that goes low it switches back. Its constantly switching between the two. Very annoying!

  5. On October 26th, 2008 at 9:08 am tua Says:

    1) it does not allow you to read or write notes
    2) you can’t respond to invitations to events

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