Facebook for Blackberry launches soon

By on October 24, 2007 in Devices

Our mate Tony from Gomo News is reporting live(ish) from the conference floor at CTIA. He’s been in the Facebook presentation and reports the following…

Link: GoMo News

RIM Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis is brought on stage to announce a deal between the two companies which will allows Blackberry users an improved experience.  Facebook for Blackberry is the imaginative name, this means:
- Facebook application on all Blackberries with integrated news feed and push updates from the website
- Immediate options to photo upload pictures to Facebook with people tags and captions
- Integrated with Blackberry address book friend invites (sounds like more opportunities to skive off work than ever)
- Integrated Facebook email updates

T Mobile is apparently the first US carrier who will be offering these facilities embedded in handsets to Blackberry users – you can also download the app from the website.

A big coup for Blackberry who’re working hard to penetrate the consumer space owned by the likes of Nokia, Sony Ericsson and so on. If the Blackberry Facebook app is anywhere near as good as the Google Talk integration is, it could be a winner.

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  • http://whatleydude.vox.com James Whatley

    Hey – wouldn’t it be cool if you could like y’know… SPEAK to your Facebook..

  • http://www.icucmoderation.com Keith Bilous

    Ok. maybe i have missed something on the “download” of the application.

    I have it on my Blackberry and I am stunned at how useless it really is. I can’t receive messages from people, as it only appears that I can send them.

    I have two messages sitting in my inbox on Facebook that appear when i log into the website but don’t appear when I log into the FB application. I can’t view the Facebook mini or news feed on the application. Essentially, it is a one way application to allow you to send messages, send invites, poke people, upload photos or update my status.

    Thats it.

    It appears to be quite a poor excuse for a Blackberry Facebook Application.

    Sorry Blackberry / Facebook team, you missed out on this one.

  • http://www.adambird.com Adam

    Keith, I’ve got it as well and I think it’s pretty good.

    Do you receive the notifications to one of the email accounts on your BlackBerry? It seems that the facebook client intercepts these messages as they come into the device and displays them in the app along with a BlackBerry stle alert.

    I’ve been exchanging messages with people already. For me it transforms facebook into a real-time communication system rather than just the time when I’m sitting at my PC and can be arsed to login to the site. I’m far more likely to interact with friends while I’m moving about rather than while at work.

    Email as an application is dead, it’s now just the transport layer.

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