Facebook.app hits 3.0 - Live Now!

**Kyle Matthews** · 08-28-2009, 01:39 AM

We knew it was coming, and here it is!

Go grab Facebook.app's update from the AppStore now. It's at 3.0, now, and with a slew of solid updates.

Video uploading works great, and you can even trim videos from your Camera Library from within the Facebook app. I uploaded a 20 second video extremely fast, and it showed up on my wall immediately. I couldn't view the actual video in Facebook.app until I restarted the app.

Here's something nice - when trying to view a video, I got the following alert:

Looks like Facebook will soon allow us to watch uploaded videos straight from the iPhone (they've previously been using Flash to show their video - which as we allllllll know doesn't work on the iPhone). Facebook's arch-nemesis Google has top dawg status on the "video on iPhone market", since YouTube.app is included stock with every iPhone sold. It was only expected Facebook would want a piece of that pie, so I'm interested to see how they decide to jump on that wagon.

The new homepage of the app will take some getting used to, as I'm spoiled having all my links on the first page from the previous revs. I think this will actually make more sense, after playing with it the past half hour or so, but I still think swiping left/right to get between the various sections would be a nice addition. Or some gesture... swiping deletes right now, which is more valuable.

The update is free (the APP is free), so pick it up now!

thanks to everyone who sent this in

**Rescuer** · 08-28-2009, 01:46 AM

somebody is late to the party!

http://mashable.com/2009/08/27/facebook-3-iphone/

New 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

**lazybearkhoa** · 08-28-2009, 01:48 AM

Originally Posted by Rescuer

somebody is late to the party!

Haha yeah... someone's late already got at the party earlier today =P

**mmg** · 08-28-2009, 01:55 AM

awesome

**xwinger** · 08-28-2009, 02:19 AM

im getting it right now!

**dwick** · 08-28-2009, 02:22 AM

i dont like it, where is "Live Feed"?

**Fallguy** · 08-28-2009, 02:27 AM

Haven't had time to mess with it yet , but I got it .

**kainisable** · 08-28-2009, 02:29 AM

yeah this is old news, got it this afternoon

**stelliejames** · 08-28-2009, 02:37 AM

i dont even like the new design, the one that hyped me up was the one that shuld have been released wen it was being previewed

**algojobathosai** · 08-28-2009, 03:07 AM

you wont see update....
just download the apps and u will get the new version

**jaysta07** · 08-28-2009, 03:26 AM

Looking good so far, you can now view pages

**kmac1622** · 08-28-2009, 04:31 AM

Ipod touch?

**congapraise** · 08-28-2009, 06:14 AM

Yeah I don't blame MMi for there delayed review on this, it wasn't in the App Store as a purchase/download yesterday. I got it as an update on my 3GS. I tired looking it up in the App Store to see the features it had in the 3.0 update, but it still only had the 2.5 version in App Store..... weird....

**iphoneman76** · 08-28-2009, 06:55 AM

Facebook is for Losers...

**GatorKnight904** · 08-28-2009, 07:12 AM

I am running 3.0 SW jailbroken on 3G... I went to the app store and did the install for facebook 3.0. Now my app opens up with the facebook title bar at the top and white screen below. Then it crashes....Anyone can help?

**billchase2** · 08-28-2009, 07:26 AM

Awesome! Thanks for letting us know!

For some reason, my iPhone doesn't seem to be notifying me of updated apps that often anymore. It didn't show there was a Facebook update, but when I searched for Facebook, I could install it and then it updated. Any ideas?

**sensown** · 08-28-2009, 07:48 AM

For the life of me I cannot find where to upload video in the app. Perhaps it's only for 3GS?

**TheJoker** · 08-28-2009, 08:06 AM

wow people realllly need to start reading the main post before asking questions..

**sensown** · 08-28-2009, 08:27 AM

Originally Posted by TheJoker

wow people realllly need to start reading the main post before asking questions..

I read the first port, but not necessarily all the user comments.

Thanks for the info, tons of fun.

**Melech518** · 08-28-2009, 08:32 AM

Yeah, I reported this, and wrote about it yesterday....New Improved Facebook 3.0 is available now in the App Store!!

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