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iphone.facebook.com sets the standard
August 15th, 2007
Facebook today released a version of the site specifically for the iPhone, and it’s one of the most functional and beautiful iPhone web apps I’ve seen yet.
Accessible via iphone.facebook.com, Facebook’s iPhone app offers views of all vital Facebook pages - including great versions of the News Feed, Pending Requests, Profile, Wall, Friends’ Status Updates, Friends’ Photos, and Inbox Reading and Composing.
Page transitions, the friends list, and several other features emulate the iPhone UI wonderfully.
Check out more screenshots from Chris Messina. Great job, Facebook!
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August 15th, 2007 at 1:37 am
I believe this is a bit of a watershed moment. Not only is that the best version of a site developed for the iphone, it’s the best mobile version of any site out there {period}
Wow, that is a great piece of work and something for all web developers to now aspire for in their mobile versions. Hats off to the FB team; you’re going to get a lot of kudo’s for this one.
Now tell me honestly, did Apple help you out making it? It just looks so darn slick
August 15th, 2007 at 2:38 am
Wow. Im astounded. I actually think its better than the main site. Amazing work.
August 15th, 2007 at 7:33 am
interesting. does it let you pull up your friends contacts? so you could use it as a big phone book?
i tried building this but the api doesn’t allow for contact info of friends to be pulled.
August 15th, 2007 at 7:35 am
Very well done, does facebook automatically redirect you there if you are using an iPhone?
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August 16th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Such quick and brilliant minded development! I can’t believe I’m saying this, but the iphone version is better than the real one!
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September 1st, 2007 at 6:58 am
With all the cudos for the quality of the site - when nokia, motorola, ericsson or samsung come out with their beefed up devices in response to the apple iPhone - will facebook then launch yet another device scpecific special site for n95.facebook.com or the likes?
Fomr the number - as Nokia sells 300 million devices per year - this could actually be even seen as reasonable, even when Apple has the edge at the moment with regard to mobile device usability…
But why jut bundling all mobile expreinc under one single, easy to use entry point? Use the http://facebook.mobi name that you have already paid for!
Make ONE “working great for mobile” site and mark taht in the way that is easy, straightforward and fully device aware: Make it display the right thing for the right phone
Not fragementing your mobile site simplifies our life - AND also the development at your own end!!
The dotMobi folks have actually jointly with the W3C developed great material with reagard to no to make good mobile sites, including creating a grerat mobile development destination on the web at http://dev.mobi - check it out ! It won’t hurt, I promise
September 4th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
If you want to have a look at a well put suggestion on why you could have a great apple iPhone experince and still not lock out other people with also some yuite good browsers in their phones, please habe a look at the Articale of this here Opera Developer.
http://my.opera.com/dstorey/blog/iphone-and-developing-for-mobile
September 28th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Yes this may look nice. However I find the real facebook page works better on the iphone. You are now forced to use this version. I preferred using the origional version as I could still use pokes, reply to people messages or pictures. read your groups, and even use some 3rd party facebook apps.
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February 4th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
how do I get message alerts to come through on my iPhone from my face book account
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:39 pm
iphone.facebook.com??? — Apple make such a big deal that the iPhone is not the “watered down version of the internet” and then people are building “watered down versions” of their sites and calling them iphone.whatever.com!
When Apple release the iPhone Nano will I need to go to iphonenano.facebook.com or just iphone.facebook.com because surely the iPhone Nano will have a much smaller screen so a different layout will probably be needed?
Have Apple bribed Facebook into making iphone.facebook.com to get it’s users to go out and buy an overpriced iPhone?
Well done!
May 7th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Seems to break to me. Go into the inbox and open a message and then it can’t get back out.
chris_deane@yahoo.co.uk
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