Facebook App for windows mobile

[1999TL]

Originally Posted by mlin

I find the MS FB app useful. I think iPhone has the only FB app made by FB, the rest are made by RIM, Androind, MS, or third party developers. The one thing I don't like about the MS FB app is that everytime I install it, my status changes to "...just installed Facebook for Windows Mobile." It's annoying and I wish I could change that (or maybe I can and I just don't know how).

HA! i used to get ppl commenting on my posts about just installing Facebook for windows phone. They would say damn I do that a lot. If you use the computer, when you press delete, I was given the option to stop allowing windows phone to update my status. After that I've been golden.

[throwed_60]

i like the regular version better only thing i see about the new one is you can add pics thats about i but on the tp2 when u hit send on pic it gives u a option to send to fb automically anyway so its not use to me. If it had chat then itll be somethin i can use

[aman1127]

I find the FB integration in Manila 2.5 much better than the app. Though you cant do certain things, there is no lag and is way more convenient.

[WhiteBlazer01]

Originally Posted by haus

I think the core of this is that WM is a less viable platform for development than iPhone, Android and BB to begin with (in terms of making money and earning market share); couple that with Microsoft's focus on Windows 7 Phone and you have a "why should we care" attitude toward anything that is available right now. I've spoken to developers who are working on apps for the 3 major platforms here in the States and when I mention Windows Mobile they just laugh. Doesn't make it right, but if you haven't invested heavily in a WM user base in the past (PocketShield, SPB, etc.) why bother now.

I completely agree. Even when people talk about apps for different platform, I don't hear them include Windows Mobile. Heck, Verizon doesn't even carry Windows Mobile phones in the store (it's all online. Unless there are a few models I missed. Definitely not smartphones).

Originally Posted by nrfitchett4

what is so bad about our facebook???

Just to name a few things (I know there are more):

- You cannot tag people (you can on Blackberry, maybe others)
- You cannot write a caption AT ALL for photos (you can on Blackberry, maybe others)
- You cannot view individually posted pics. You are taken to the entire album.
- When you want to make a comment on something or write on someones wall, if you flip out the hardware keyboard and switch to landscape mode, anything you type doesn't save (that's right, try it). You have to either do it and not save, then try again (in the same screen orientation), or you have to remain in the same screen orientation the entire time from opening to close.
- And for crying out loud, what is with "Button 1" and "Button 2"?? Did the developers really just give up and quit halfway??
- Just barely are we able to "like" posts.

That is just off the top of my head. I'm sure there are more problems. So yes, the Facebook app for Windows Mobile is aweful. Still. and worse yet, I bet nobody using it expects any updates. We just use this because that's all we get, and we know it.

FB for WM =

[n8mack33]

Opera Mini works pretty good for m.facebook.com. Its not perfect but I use it more than the FB app which I think is very limiting.

[mlin]

Originally Posted by 1999TL

HA! i used to get ppl commenting on my posts about just installing Facebook for windows phone. They would say damn I do that a lot. If you use the computer, when you press delete, I was given the option to stop allowing windows phone to update my status. After that I've been golden.

LOL! I get the same thing: "damn! again?!?!" Thanks for the tip, no Windows Phone won't publish without my permission.

[WhiteBlazer01]

Wirelessly posted (HTC Touch Pro 2: Opera/9.80 (Windows Mobile; WCE; Opera Mobi/WMD-50433; U; en) Presto/2.4.13 Version/10.00)

Oh, I forgot to mention... Facebook shut down lite.facebook.com. That was a good site to use.

[bigrel22]

Wirelessly posted (Opera/9.80 (J2ME/MIDP; Opera Mini/5.0.3521/838; U; en) Presto/2.4.15)

The facebook instant messenger app(fim) is the best one imo.

[QMeli907]

The facebook application for WM isn't a complete fail, yet it severely lacks when compared to iPhone and Android applications. If you don't believe so, use these on a friends device and compare.

I have tried to post a comment when someone wrote on my wall, and it was posted on someone else's comment weeks previous. The person was not happy haha and needless to say I was not either

While we are talking about things that aren't very good, can I include the search function on this site? I'm trying to search for a previous thread, as I know for sure there was one previous to this one, but the search takes forever to load, and generates less than desired results. I was going to link up the thread, but.....I have to go to class

[thestick00]

Hey. I would have to agree with you guys on this. One thing that I would like to figure out how to do, but I fear it may be hopeless is how to save facebook profile pics. Mobile shell would sync your contacts with fb people and give you the option to use one of their fb pics. Outside of using mobile shell, or save the images on a pc, I cant figure out how to do so. You would think it would it would be a relatively easy thing to do.