Facebook For iPhone Application Launches

facebook iphone application screenshotFacebook has launched a native iPhone Facebook application today along with the much-awaited launch of Apple’s iPhone 3G, iPhone software 2.0, and iPhone App Store.

While the Facebook for iPhone site has been available for nearly a year (and according to its creator Joe Hewitt has over 1.5 million active users), the Facebook iPhone application will run faster and have more features integrated with the iPhone’s built-in capabilities.

As of today, you can take photos with your iPhone and post them to your Mobile Uploads album on Facebook and use Facebook Chat. In the future, Facebook says it will enable users to take advantage of the iPhone’s GPS capabilities by sharing their location with friends and finding friends nearby.

We’re likely to see a lot of exciting “find near me” iPhone apps in the coming months, but Facebook is in a unique position to become the leading “friend finder” application because of the size and accuracy of its current social graph. Loopt also launched an iPhone application today.

The Facebook for iPhone app will work with the original iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPhone 3G. You can download it now using your iPhone or iPod Touch from Apple’s App Store.

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10 Responses to “Facebook For iPhone Application Launches”

  1. Inside Facebook » Inside Facebook’s Week in Review for July 13, 2008 says:

    [...] 3. Facebook Application for iPhone Launches [...]

  2. rwbronco says:

    the fact that you can’t browse other peoples albums automatically cripples it. I’d say just use the web app…but none of the photo albums update on it despite numerous refresh attempts…

  3. nater kane and friends » blog » post » Brightkite rushes to get it right, unlike some others says:

    [...] for the web app is Facebook’s… The other day Facebook released an update to their already released native app for the iPhone, and though people seem really happy with the update, I’ve honestly [...]

  4. Inside Facebook » Facebook Announces Facebook Connect for iPhone says:

    [...] efforts have focused on the iPhone – after launching an iPhone specific mobile website a year ago, Facebook launched an iPhone application a couple of weeks ago. It has since updated the Facebook for iPhone app with more [...]

  5. Whit says:

    My iphone facebook mobile uploads page just comes up black and doesn’t allow me to upload anything. Any idea why?

  6. How to Use the iPhone for Online Social Media says:

    [...] Facebook for iPhone [...]

  7. Inside Facebook » Facebook is the 2nd Most Downloaded Free App on the iPhone says:

    [...] On July 10, the day the iPhone App Store launched, Facebook released Facebook for iPhone 1.0. [...]

  8. Version 2.1 of Facebook for iPhone Application Released says:

    [...] over 4.5 million people per month (and is one of the most popular iPhone applications overall), was originally released in July of last year. Version 2.0, which added a full News Feed, notifications, photo tagging, and a fuller profile [...]

  9. Eduardo says:

    I try to dowload this version in Apple’s App Store from my Iphone G3 and show: this aplication is not compatible with this Iphone

  10. help needed on 3GS says:

    The Facebook Application has problems on d IPHONE 3GS..
    any help resolving it would be appreciated…
    I tried reinstalling it but it doesnt work..:(

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