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Facebook For iPhone Application Launches
July 10th, 2008
| By Justin Smith | 10 Comments » |
Facebook 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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July 13th, 2008 at 10:38 am
[...] 3. Facebook Application for iPhone Launches [...]
July 14th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
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…
July 21st, 2008 at 2:28 pm
[...] 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 [...]
July 23rd, 2008 at 3:14 pm
[...] 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 [...]
August 12th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
My iphone facebook mobile uploads page just comes up black and doesn’t allow me to upload anything. Any idea why?
November 30th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
[...] Facebook for iPhone [...]
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:55 pm
[...] On July 10, the day the iPhone App Store launched, Facebook released Facebook for iPhone 1.0. [...]
January 17th, 2009 at 11:25 am
[...] 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 [...]
February 11th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
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
December 8th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
The Facebook Application has problems on d IPHONE 3GS..
any help resolving it would be appreciated…
I tried reinstalling it but it doesnt work..:(