Blackberry gets Facebook'd

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Blackberry gets Facebook'd

by Chris Gilmer Oct 26th 2007

Now you can stay in touch with friends using Facebook for Blackberry, a standalone application. Sure Facebook can be accessed normally through the likes of mobile browsers like Opera, but this new application provides more streamlined and optimized mobile access for Facebook.

After installing the application, users can send and view messages, photos, pokes, and wall posts. They will also be able to take a picture and directly send it to their profiles complete with tags if their Berry's have cameras. Although this is good for long commutes and waiting for meals to be served, it could be encouraging a new level of unproductiveness in the workplace!

There have been reports of Facebook for Blackberry not working with older handsets and on some mobile networks.

You can download the installer from Blackberry or Facebook.

Tags: app, blackberry, browse, facebook, mobile-application, opera, social-network

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Todd said 11:07AM on 10-26-2007

Crackberry + Facebook = zero productivity

p-diddy said 4:04PM on 10-26-2007

Thank God my 8700 doesn't support it. Whew. Although... maybe it is time for an upgrade. hmmmmm.

-p-

michael said 4:58PM on 10-26-2007

Anybody know a WM6 version? Or even a WM5 version of the same kind?

Chris Gilmer said 5:05PM on 10-26-2007

michael - You can always access http://iphone.facebook.com from any device. That should work nicely too!

Chris Gilmer said 7:29PM on 10-26-2007

michael - yes, well so do a ton of other users! The iPhone is the hot device out now, so of course it gets all the attention. Hopefully with all that cash that Facebook got they will dump some into developing specialized apps for all platforms.

michael said 8:30PM on 10-26-2007

@Chris Gilmer:

Thanks! I took a look at it, and it works good - on a regular browser.

It looks good enough to be on WinMo phone though too. I just wish there were an official one, that took advantage of WinMo keys.

sodapop said 5:06PM on 10-27-2007

I think its retarded that they block regular web browsers from using these mini sites.

Ypoknons said 1:34AM on 10-29-2007

Some of the Ajax features on the iphone don't work right in any WM browser yet, I think, making navigation kind of hard.

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