Facebook 3.0 Now in App Store
August 28th, 2009
The long-awaited update to the Facebook app, version 3.0, is now available in the App Store. It includes the following features:
- 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
The new main screen of Facebook 3.0
The App Store may still only show the last version of the app (2.5) as the current one available. A tweet from the developer, Joe Hewitt, earlier today indicates that the 3.0 version is indeed available though it may be necessary to re-download the app even if the version number shown in the App Store is still 2.5:
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