Do you live your day status update by status update? Are the pads of your CrackBerry thumbs wearing away due to nonstop wall posts? Get ready for new stuff. When the clock strikes 6 p.m PST (not EST as some sites are reporting), Facebook will be pushing a minor update to their BlackBerry App.
Patch notes after the jump.
The new goods:
· Status updates and highlights on the home page – you can now view your friends’ most recent status updates right on the home page. Highlights like photo uploads and wall posts are just a click away and you can comment on a photo, poke a friend, etc. right from the home page.
· Wall access from within Facebook for BlackBerry – with one click on your friend’s profile picture from the home page, you can access their wall without having to go to the mobile site.
· Photo viewing in a simple, easy-to-use slideshow format – check out your friends’ latest photo albums with improved photo viewing, and view albums in a simple and easy-to-use slideshow format. Just scroll back and forth through the thumbnails along the bottom to display the larger picture in the center of the screen.
· Facebook for BlackBerry 1.6 will also support three new languages:
o Thai
o Indonesian
o European Portuguese
wow, these are actually some pretty significant additions. Maybe even more than what 1.5 brought us.
Looks good…Facebook people should be happy.
Excellent update, a lot more cleaner and more little features that might mean I don’t log on to the web version anytime soon
wouldn’t it be too cramped up to hold all that facebook features? Hmm
Somehow, I think of the facebook crowd as being different from the Blackberry crowd… either my friends are getting older (and using Blackberries), or facebook really is universal/ not dominated by college kids and recent grads (makes me long for 2004).
These are great additions for the Blackberry Facebook app. I still think that the iPhone Facebook app is superior, but this is definitely a start to compete.