Facebook 3.0 for iPhone Hits App Store with More Features

Did you get my tweet about the release of Facebook 3.0 for iPhone? Even you didn’t follow me on Twitter, you may already heard from elsewhere that Facebook 3.0 is officially debut. With nearly two weeks of long wait, Facebook 3.0 finally comes to the App Store for download. As always, it doesn’t cost you a penny but brings lots of great features to your iPhone.

Earlier, I have written up a preview of Facebook 3.0 that covers all awesome features bundled in the new version. However, there are even more goodies for the official release. As mentioned by Joe Hewitt, the core developer of Facebook app, on Twitter, the Facebook 3.0 hosting on App Store offers a couple of new features:

Support of Landscape Mode
Support of Home Screen Organization

The ability to organize the custom home screen is a great addition to the release that you can add and remove custom icons to/from the home screen. If you have read the preview of Facebook 3.0, you know the developer originally intends to leave these two features for the next release version. (You may wonder why these two features suddenly appear in Facebook 3.0, check out Techcrunch for the reason behind it.)

I have already upgraded my Facebook app and played around with it for a whole day. It’s really amazing. So far, it’s probably the most useful iPhone application in 2009. Don’t wait. Go ahead and upgrade it! Or you can download it via this direct iTunes link.

What’s New in Facebook 3.0 for iPhone

For those do not know about the details of Facebook 3.0, let me recap all the new features once again:

1. A brand-new home screen with 9 default icons that give you access to the most common application including news feed, profile, list of friends, inbox, chat requests, events photos and notes. The home screen is also customizable that you can add your favorite contact and pages for quick access.

2. See your incoming Events and RSVP

3. See the same news feed as that in Facebook website

4. Upload videos straight from iPhone 3GS

5. Upload photos to any album with complete photo management (create album, delete album, delete photos, delete photo tags)

6. Zoom in Photo with multitouch

7. “Like” Post and Photos

8. Write Note and Read your Friends’ Notes

9. Call or Send Text Your Friend Right From Facebook App

10. See your friends’ birthdays

11. View link with the built-in browser

12. Show pages and Become a fan of Pages

13. Change your Profile Picture

14. Support of Landscape Mode

What do you think about this Facebook 3.0 update? Any features you want to have in the next release? Leave us comment and let us know.

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{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Jeff September 2, 2009 at 2:50 pm: Such a nice update!

Wish I could use Facebook here in China It’s been blocked for a couple of months…

Any ideas on how to access facebook in China (especially accessed from iPhone)? Any suggestions are greatly appreciate

Cheers,
Jeff

2 Brent Bristol October 24, 2009 at 8:24 am: I added Shutterbug magazine to my facebook as a friend, but now I am flooded with Shutterbug alerts. Can I remove Shutterbug from within the Facebook app?