Those of you expecting a new version of the Facebook application for your Palm Pre or Pixi will be happy to hear that it has arrived and is ready for downloading. The old app did little more than let you post updates, pictures, and check your friends’ news feed, but this update promises a heck of a lot more.
- Enhanced Inbox – Now, your inbox lets you compose, send, and reply, so you can always access your Facebook messages.
- Photo albums – Now you can view photo albums from all your friends, not just the photos in their news feeds. Uploading photos is easier as well, and includes the ability to add captions.
- Profiles – The new app lets you view users’ profiles, whether they are your friends or not. View and post to their walls, view their information, and see their photo albums (subject to privacy settings, of course).
- Events and birthdays – Now you can see upcoming birthdays from your friend list as well as upcoming events.
- Friend search – Easily find your friends using the Friend Search feature. This takes you to their profile, where you can see and post to their wall, view their information, and look at their photos.
It seems like all of the main features are there, including commenting and commenting on items. A neat, if frivolous, addition is shaking the phone to refresh the timeline. A few of the tinier details could make this app really rock the kasbah – notifications, page viewing, profile picture updating, and chat would be great additions, for example. It’s a little weird that you can’t accept friend requests through the app, but I guess we’ll have to wait for yet another update for that.
Of course, webOS still natively pulls in a lot of information to its native address book through Synergy, but the separate app will give something more closely approximating browsing the actual social network.
If you haven’t already, go ahead and check the webOS Market to get updated.