Following up on their beta last month, RIM has updated the Facebook app for BlackBerry with a few more modest features. The biggest one is that now you’ll get notifications for polled events, including Likes and Event wall posts. There are a few new UI changes, including a shortcut bar along the bottom for common tasks like replying to messages. Facebook content is also a lot more shareable now that there’s a dedicated menu item to send stuff out via e-mail, BBM, text, or instant messaging. RIM is actually opening up the API to the “Share” menu in OS 7, so developers will be able to pump their content out to apps like Facebook, or if it’s a social app, be offered as a sharing option.
Facebook for BlackBerry has been getting a lot of love lately, having introduced chat earlier this year, and of course having the first tablet-optimized app. As you might expect, the app lets you keep tabs on updates from your friends, post on walls, upload pictures right from the phone, handle friend requests, and manage events. Facebook plugs right into the BlackBerry’s native calendar, messages, and address book apps, so all of your social information is readily available everywhere you go. For example, profile pictures update your contacts’ caller ID picture, events show up in your calendar (particularly handy for birthday reminders), and new notifications pop up in Messages just like e-mails or text messages.
To download Facebook for BlackBerry beta 4, head on over to the Beta Zone. It’s a bit of a hassle to get everything working, mind you; you’ll need to uninstall your existing app, reboot the phone, log in to the download page from the browser, install, then input a keycode that’s e-mailed to you. If you’d rather not bother, you can get the vanilla version from App World.
[via IBB]