Download Facebook 3.2.3 for iPhone

Facebook's application for the iPhone and iPod Touch has grown leaps and bounds in this most recent release. It shines as a concerted effort to adapt the essential functionality of Facebook.com onto the iPhone and iPod Touch while adding perks distinct to the mobile experience. Facebook has expended a lot of time and energy to make the application mirror the interaction you can achieve online, and to make the interface easily navigable. Facebook accomplishes the latter with a new screen from which you can launch a total of nine activities, and read notifications as well.

We're also impressed by the application's ability to manage photos (and video, if you're on an iPhone 3GS) from your phone--deleting and creating albums from the phone instead of just viewing them. Other interactive qualities include RSVPing to events, changing your profile picture, and seeing friends of friends. You're also able to monitor birthdays--a highly requested addition--and view Pages you subscribe to. Another major new feature is the integrated Web browser, which keeps the Facebook experience within the Facebook app. In previous versions, clicking a link would open the Web page in the Safari browser, forcing you to leave the application and open it again to resume your place.

The logical design and sharp images make fulfilling your socializing obligations effortless, from reading and updating status messages, writing on walls, and composing and responding to messages in the in-box. The app is still not as robust as Facebook.com, of course: it still doesn't let you play with third-party apps. However, this version brings you closer than ever to capturing Facebook's real-time social networking from a mobile device.


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