Facebook for iPhone version 3.0 will hopefully soon be made available through the iTunes App Store, but lead engineer Joe Hewitt has apparently already graced the team over at Appadvice with an early look.
Check out their review for more details, but here’s the gist:
- A new home screen (see first screenshot above) which will offer the ability to customize i.e. add boxes to the default start screen
- A better ‘News feed’: much more complete overview of status updates from your friends, but still lacking the ability to hide/unhide them from inside the app
- Videos (as expected): uploading video supposedly works like a charm, but you still can’t watch Facebook videos unless they’re actually hosted on YouTube (and likely other video hosting platforms as well) and simply played from inside the app
- Events (as expected): includes the ability to RSVP, but you can’t visit the complete event wall, which is unfortunate
- Pages: you can search for, view and interact with pages using Facebook for iPhone 3.0
- Photos: you can create new photo albums, upload photos to any album, zoom into photos and change your profile picture
- Communication: you can quickly or call people straight from the Friends page
- Improved ‘liking’ feature
- Notes, including the ability to edit them
- Notifications: much better, link directly to comments which you can respond to
- Messages you are typing will be restored if you quit the app or are interrupted by a phone call
Here’s to hoping for a quick green light from Apple.
Update: also got confirmation that there’s no landscape mode in this version.
Update 2: a lot more screenshots are available here.
(Via @Appadvice)
facebook is down.
Hey Apple. Two years later, still Mobile Safari is not CSS compliant. Would it be to much to ask for you to hire an engineer to implement fixed positioning? I’m sure all the mobile web developers in the world would be glad to take up a collection so it doesn’t hit your engineering budget too badly.
Sheesh. What a joke Apple can be sometimes. Steve. Are you listening? Not having FIXED POSITIONING through CSS is fucking killing us out here. We don’t give a shit what it means to your two finger gesture touch interface, fuck that thank you very much.
Is it down? I am at the Newark airport and can’t connect.
This is a welcome enhancement – now I’ll never have to hit the website on the computer!
Finally, photo zooming. This has been lacking for way too long.
Hopefully ability to sync the Hide settings with the mothership is forthcoming…
The Facebook for iPhone app might make me finally buy an iPhone.
Well…its not a completely new app, just a bit revamped.
A *lot* revamped…
You will love it! I held out, I was a die hard Windows Mobile fan and finally gave in. The iPhone apps (most of them) are very good and there are so many to fit whatever your needs may be. There are a few things I would like to see like easy file transfers using iTunes or good applicaton with an easy to use GUI. Also, they still need to work on the battery, it does drain faster than other phones I have had even with the power consuming settings set to off. Still not convinced on the Mac, but you never know!
That’s all great but how about having news feed items link to the actual item instead of to the profile of the person mentioned?
Looks a lot better than the junk i have on this blackberry curve. Get my iPhone tomorrow.
FB is up.
This is great! Now, let us hope that the next version will make it possible to browse, post to, and reply to Discussion Boards. My life would then be complete.
Your life will be complete?? Aim higher, dude.
How come they make the iPhone one so good but the app for the Blackberry Curve is so spectacularly useless?
Probably because Hewitt doesnt develop it.
This looks to be another killer app for the iPhone — can’t wait for it to come out, will make things much easier for us FB addicts
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sweet, i love the user interface, hope it performs great.
Let’s hope.
I’ll buy after that.
I use this app religiously, and the improvements are making me salivate.
Wow, what a massive scoop for appadvice. The exact same informatioweans screenies we can all see at the Facebook for iPhone group on Facebook. Hardly a sneek peek by anyone’s standards.
some welcomed improvements.
nice, but … why all this fuss about an app that Windows Mobile users have had for a while
http://www.micr...s/facebook.mspx
the iPhone may be a bright shiny object, but WM still outsells the iPhone and for developers presents a potentially much larger and more varied market with no luck-of-the-draw approvals process…
This comment might make some sense if you’d realised that this is about the THIRD VERSION of the iPhone app. There’s been a Facebook app since the SDK launch.
Yeah. Windows Mobile outsells horse manure too. So WHF.
No push notifications in this version by the way … push will be coming in v3.1 — got this straight from the developer.
do you really want to get a push notification every time someone makes a stupid comment?
An easier way (if you have unlimited text) is to create some filters in gmail (if you use that) to send it to your phone via sms. Theres your push.
Zoom into photos… best feature addition in 3.0!
srsly!
Facebook for the iPhone gets a face lift. Coming soon!
Does this version still offer the “live” news feed the current version has? I still like the ability to see all updates if I want vs. only a few Facebook-selected ones.
That’s a horrible looking home page AND they’re taking away current features (landscape)?! Thanks for the warning.. I’ll make sure to avoid this “upgrade”!
There’s never been a landscape feature. Landscape isn’t even coming until the 3.1 update.
There’s no landscape on the current version, either. I hate landscape mode (it switches too liberally, and I would love to have the option to turn it off), so this is all welcome news.
I think it’s a real shame they couldn’t incorporate something as basic as landscape mode.
When I’m typing on Facebook it’s really fiddly in portrait….. will have to wait I guess!