Facebook App for WebOS Updated

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Following on from the initial Facebook App for WebOS handsets Palm have announced a new version of the WebOS Facebook app that’s not only been rebuilt from scratch but that offers a host of enhancements including an enhanced inbox, revised photo albums, profiles, events and search functionalities.

In terms of key revised and updated features, the new iteration of the Facebook app for WebOS offers the following:

• Enhanced Inbox – Now, your inbox lets you compose, send, and reply, so you can always access your Facebook messages.
• Photo albums – Now you can view photo albums from all your friends, not just the photos in their news feeds. Uploading photos is easier as well, and includes the ability to add captions.
• Profiles – The new app lets you view users’ profiles, whether they are your friends or not. View and post to their walls, view their information, and see their photo albums (subject to privacy settings, of course).
• Events and birthdays – Now you can see upcoming birthdays from your friend list as well as upcoming events.
• Friend search – Easily find your friends using the Friend Search feature. This takes you to their profile, where you can see and post to their wall, view their information, and look at their photos.

“Now that we have this rewritten-from-scratch version of the Facebook app out, we’re starting to look at what further enhancements we can add to it,” states a posting on Palm’s developer blog. “ We plan to continue using this application to push ourselves as webOS developers, and to step into the shoes of our developers and live with the tools we give them. We think that’s the best way to make sure those tools are the best tools we can possibly build. If we aren’t working with them daily, it’s easy to think they’re better than they are. By making sure we’re always creating “real” applications, we have no excuses not to make sure that our developer environment is the best it can be. And that’s exactly what we expect it to be. We still have some work, but now we know what needs to be done, and we’re working to make it happen.”

The new iteration of the Facebook app for WebOS is available now and, if you get to give it a whirl we’d love to hear what you think of it.