New Version of Facebook for iPhone OS 3.0 Gets More Features

seanwes · 07-01-2009, 10:31 PM

Taken from iClarified.

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Wednesday, 1st July 2009, 05:07 pm
A new version of Facebook for iPhone OS 3.0 is coming very soon with 15 major improvements including Events, according to developer Joe Hewitt.

The update is about 98% done and upon completion will be submitted to Apple for approval.

So Whats New in This Update?
1. The "new" News Feed
2. Like
3. Events (including the ability to RSVP)
4. Notes
5. Pages
6. Create new photo albums
7. Upload photos to any album
8. Zoom into photos
9. Easier photo tagging
10. Profile Pictures albums
11. A new home screen for easy access to all your stuff, search, and notifications
12. Add your favorite profiles and pages to the home screen
13. Better Notifications (they link to the comments so you can reply)
14. Quickly call or text people right from the Friends page
15. Messages you are typing will be restored if you quit or are interrupted by a phone call

Push notifications are in development but won't make it into the 3.0 release. You can expect it in version 3.1

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bredfan · 07-01-2009, 10:55 PM

Not being able to see or respond to events was always my biggest gripe with the current iPhone FB setup. Also, linking to the comments for replies is nice too.

Sounds good, hopefully when they roll it out it won't slow my backups to a crawl like it used to.

fsas06 · 07-01-2009, 11:13 PM

one thing i wish the myspace app would let me do it upload pics to any album, but i dont use facebook...maybe myspace should take some notes lol

Youngbinks · 07-01-2009, 11:15 PM

I've been wanting events for the longest time now. It's about time for an update.

chris · 07-01-2009, 11:17 PM

Read that here.

Maaz · 07-02-2009, 07:41 PM

Wow this is great. I can't wait.

styfle · 07-02-2009, 11:50 PM

Originally Posted by fsas06

one thing i wish the myspace app would let me do it upload pics to any album, but i dont use facebook...maybe myspace should take some notes lol

You should...facebook is a million--no a billion times better than myspace. You can be friends with your real life friends on it, its amazing.

EDIT: heres a picture btw

SabaUnited · 07-03-2009, 08:38 AM

The new version of Facebook for iPhone will support video uploads in addition to 15 other new features.

Developer Joe Hewitt announced tweeted that the feature wasn't expected to make it into 3.0 but it was very easy to code.

Only took a few minutes to add 3GS video uploading support to the Facebook app... making it usable will take more time.

3GS video uploading for the Facebook iPhone app is a go -- didn't plan to include it in the 3.0 update, but it was really easy to code.

icecreamman2 · 07-04-2009, 02:23 AM

wow, this is awesome. hopefully this comes soon. not being able to see events has been killing me.

monkeysrock0622 · 07-04-2009, 02:58 AM

Wow I can't believe how many people actually use events. I've only used it once or twice.