Many Facebook users own iPhone – hence, an app for Facebook on iPhone was inevitable. Since the release of Facebook for iPhone app in the year of 2007, continual updates have been brought into this app to enhance the FB experience on iPhone. This social network iPhone application is one of the best, users have reported to use so far! This smartphone application was designed by Joe Hewitt, the same mastermind behind the excellent Firebug extension of Mozilla Firefox.
The FB interface on iPhone Â
The Facebook for iPhone app not just looks clean and crisp on the big touchscreen on iPhone, it is equally great to tap the app as it makes you feel you are not far from the fun of FB activities. The app would simply take a few gentle taps on the phone to keep updating your status, uploading video, event check-ins, to ‘Unfriend’ and many more. You thought searching for friends on the Facebook will not be a good idea on a comparatively smaller screen than your netbook, notebook or desktop? You are slightly wrong! This Facebook for iPhone mirrors the ease of searching for Facebook contacts and even lets you call those friends directly from your iPhone. The app is designed to adapt to all the essential functionalities of the Facebook presence on the web on the iPod Touch and iPhone, plus adding extra perks of using FB from iPhone.Â
There are lots to ‘Like’ on Facebook for iPhone
With random updates on the Facebook for iPhone application, Facebook makes mobile application emulate interaction that you carry out when accessing online by making the interface simply navigable. This is accomplished by accruing a new screen to the application. From this screen, users can read notifications and can launch nine activities too.
Photos and videos, Facebook chat…      Â
Photos play a major mode of communication and key ingredient of status updates on Facebook. An extra perk of using Facebook from iPhone is that you can now club the activities of taking photos and uploading those from one device, that too instantaneously. Especially if you are using Facebook app from your iPhone 3GS, you will be impressed by the application’s ability to manage video and photo sharing. Likewise, by adding photos, you can also create albums and delete albums from the smartphone apart from just viewing them.
The release of Facebook for iPhone version 3.0 introduced a big update to the app and it was video uploads from the iPhone 3GS. iPhone has always been an excellent handheld device that makes uploading videos simple and interesting. Now that it incorporates a mobile Facebook platform, it has coined the fame of sharing videos among friends. Gradually, the application is projected to integrate newer functionality to facilitate video uploading process. The device would even improve the quality of uploaded video according to the bandwidth used to optimize the video. Â Â
Contact sync and push notifications
The Facebook for iPhone application has got even better with addition of push notifications and syncing contacts to iPhone Address Book. The new push notifications feature on the app will notify events, new messages, new comments and can also customize to skip notifications of new comments. Using contact syncing, you can actually import Facebook profile pictures and links to the respective contacts in iPhone Address Book. Even you do not need registering contact on your phone once you got the same contact on Facebook.
Unfriending and Maps
The latest update of the Facebook for iPhone is version 3.4 that allows you to find friends on Google Maps (not Bing Maps though). The Map update came along with ‘improved’ notifications UI, ‘improved’ News Feed, and the function to ‘Unfriend’ friends from iPhone, finally. The events check-in facility also will allow you to run contests, checking various locations around your city provided you are either invited or said yes to the ‘RSVP’.
