One of the very first applications to be released into the iPhone App Store, Facebook has been continually updated, making it the hands-down best way to access your Facebook contacts and content while on the move. And it’s free, of course, making installing it a complete no-brainer for anyone with a Facebook account. Of special interest is the way it adheres perfectly to all of Apple’s own interface guidelines – it’s tempting to wonder if Apple themselves had a hand in its creation?
Spread across five very iPhone-like tabs are ‘Home’, where new friend requests and status updates appear automatically, ‘Me’ (or whatever your name is), showing your last status update and the contents of your Facebook ‘wall’, ‘Friends’, with (yet again) a very iPhone-like Contact list, complete with well stocked thumbnail photos, ‘Chat’, where you can initiate or continue conversations with any of your Facebook contacts who are online and ‘Available’, and finally ‘Inbox’, as you’d expect, your Facebook mailbox. Phew.
I can’t emphasise enough just how far Facebook have gone in implementing an application which looks more part of the iPhone’s default application set than some of Apple’s own built-ins. At every turn, buttons appear, contextually, in the top bar or within the page, as appropriate, to offer just the functions you’d want at that instant. So, for example, within the ‘Me’ page, there are buttons for ‘Update Status’ and ‘Add a photo’. And I was extremely gratified to see that the iPhone’s writing/spelling aids are fully working within the text editing field for updates – the Facebook iPhone app is just stunningly convenient for keeping others appraised of what you’re up to and staying up to date with what others are doing.
It goes without saying that you’re logged in automatically, so there’s no tedious re-entering of email or password each day, and the application also remembers exactly where you got to before you were interrupted and had to go open another application.
If I could have given this six stars out of five – I would have. It’s THAT good.
Read more: http://iphoneapplicationlist.com/2009/02/27/3929/#ixzz199PY5LU8
I can’t emphasise enough just how far Facebook have gone in implementing an application which looks more part of the iPhone’s default application set than some of Apple’s own built-ins. At every turn, buttons appear, contextually, in the top bar or within the page, as appropriate, to offer just the functions you’d want at that instant. So, for example, within the ‘Me’ page, there are buttons for ‘Update Status’ and ‘Add a photo’. And I was extremely gratified to see that the iPhone’s writing/spelling aids are fully working within the text editing field for updates – the Facebook iPhone app is just stunningly convenient for keeping others appraised of what you’re up to and staying up to date with what others are doing.
It goes without saying that you’re logged in automatically, so there’s no tedious re-entering of email or password each day, and the application also remembers exactly where you got to before you were interrupted and had to go open another application.
If I could have given this six stars out of five – I would have. It’s THAT good.
Read more: http://iphoneapplicationlist.com/2009/02/27/3929/#ixzz199PY5LU8
