First impressions: Facebook for Blackberry ‘misses it’
Keith, regular SMS Text News reader, HUGE Blackberry user and HUGE Facebook user, was amongst the first to get hold of the Facebook for Blackberry application this afternoon.
He stuck the application on to his handset and had a peer around. He kindly took a load of screenshots of the application in use on his Blackberry.
Keith’s less than impressed, contributing this comment to the related news story on SMS Text News:
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.
You can see the gallery here.
In fairness to the Facebook & Blackberry teams, there will be a lot of people who, I’m sure, will be content with poking folk, sending messages/invites and uploading photos — as well as setting status.
I wonder if they’ve plans to extend the application a little more? I’ll need to get hold of a Blackberry and try it out.
I couldn’t find the download link at Facebook… the RIM press release advises:
Facebook users will be able to download the application at www.facebook.com from their PC or BlackBerry smartphone beginning later today.
Ok: Go to http://www.blackberry.com/facebook/ on your Blackberry — or try this direct URL.
Anyway, now they’ve got $240m from Microsoft, perhaps they could put that to good use working on the next version?
Their user agent sniffer sucks too. I was offered the download on my E61i earlier today…
Posted by James Whatley on October 25th, 2007 at 2:00 am.“Their user agent sniffer sucks too. I was offered the download on my E61i earlier today…”
Same, and I’m using a W850i. Wonder if they’ve heard of WURFL…
Posted by Simon on October 25th, 2007 at 10:15 am.Me too on the N95. When I clicked on the link it said ‘page not found’. Oops
Posted by Alex on October 25th, 2007 at 10:27 am.[...] of Facebook fanatics. However, an early adopter is disappointed with this new app, claiming it is utterly useless because it can’t receive messages from other [...]
Posted by Blackberry Facebook App Released on October 25th, 2007 at 6:12 pm.I too am disappointed. No alerts or inbox opening, and the news feed, which is probably the most enojyable regualar feature, is not accessible. On the plus side, it does look good on the Pearl!
Posted by Stephen Lockyer on October 31st, 2007 at 1:39 pm.