It only took a few tries, but it looks like the full Facebook experience is finally making its way on to your iPhone.
While the Facebook application has dominated the most popular free application slot on the Apple App Store for ages, it has been lacking in a whole lot of functionality that users would like to have. Well, thanks to the 3.0 update, all of that has changed, and Facebook was kind enough to spell out everything that the new version will do.
- See your upcoming Events and RSVP
- See your friends’ birthdays
- See Pages and post updates and photos to Pages you administer
- Write Notes and read your friends’ Notes
- Upload videos from an iPhone 3GS
- Upload photos to any album
- Complete photo management (create albums, delete albums, delete photos, delete photo tags)
- Change your Profile Picture
- Zoom into photos
- Like posts and photos
- See the same News Feed as the Facebook website
- Visit links in a built-in web browser
- See all of your friends’ friends and Pages
- See mutual friends
- Easily search for people and Pages
- Make friend requests
- Become a fan of Pages
- Quickly call or text your friends
- Create shortcuts to your favorite friends and Pages
- Friends sorted by first or last name according to your settings
- Chat friends sorted alphabeticaly
In short, this new app will basically allow you to do everything you do on the full site, but on a mobile device. If you thought the old version of the app was popular, this one should just be explosive. It is available now, but it still needs a bit of time to show up in everyone’s iTunes and your iPhones and iPod Touches.
