Originally Posted by nrfitchett4 (Post 1725843)

what is so bad about our facebook???

Originally Posted by mlin (Post 1725982)

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).

Originally Posted by haus (Post 1726014)

You can delete that status update on your wall, but as with many things on FB you probably can't do it from the WM version. On a PC, just mouse over that status update, mouse to the right and the word "Remove" will show up. Click "remove" and that item will be removed. I've done this a number of times.

There are a number of limitations to the WM FB app; I can't describe them all but I agree they are frustrating.

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.

Originally Posted by mlin (Post 1725982)

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).

Originally Posted by haus (Post 1726014)

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.

Originally Posted by nrfitchett4 (Post 1725843)

what is so bad about our facebook???

Originally Posted by 1999TL (Post 1726126)

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.

Originally Posted by QMeli907 (Post 1727983)

While we are talking about things that aren't very good, can I include the search function on this site?

Originally Posted by WhiteBlazer01 (Post 1725846)

Seem WM is very neglected.

Originally Posted by WhiteBlazer01 (Post 1726605)

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).





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 = :angry7:

Originally Posted by supdawg (Post 1731493)

Yes, this is why people are leaving it in droves. Since WM7 looks like a Iphone clone, I'll pass.

MS screwed up when they thought that their way of wrong and Iphones was right. Android proves people can have some control over their devices yet, they still are plenty functional.

Originally Posted by coferj (Post 1733404)

my main beef is on my main page, it will only display a few updates, and when i press older posts, i get maybe one or two...then after hitting older posts a couple of times, i get nothing...anyone else, or am i just the lucky one?

Originally Posted by pavemen (Post 1731726)

Are you using the Facebook version from Microsfot Marketplace? It is the latest version and var more complete than the built-in one or the one you can download from Facebook.

- Still can't tag folks
- If you go to the Facebook Mobile site, you can find your user specific email address that you can send pictures and videos to. This will let you add a subject line that then becomes the uploads caption. Just create a new contact on your phone for the email address they give you.
- With the new version, you tap the image and you get a dialog to view photo and other stuff. Click view photo and you get to the single photo, but can browse teh album, or just click back softkey to go back to the main facebook app
- Sliding out the keyboard keeps the text, just tried it.
- All the button text as complete on my version
- You can view profiles, view and make comments, like posts all from the News and Status pages

Originally Posted by Q_Q (Post 1733975)

Upon further review I might have to change to 'dislike' because I do have some issues/questions with the current MS app:

1) When I decide to make a comment in response to a newsfeed that hit my wall, my reply never shows up. Even after refresh, my reply comments don't show up.

2) When I go into photos, it sometimes hangs & nevers returns any photos.

Are these things common issues with the latest MS version?

Originally Posted by hanjamin300 (Post 1725816)

why is our facebook application so foolishly designed as compared to the iPhone and Android devices?:angry7:

Originally Posted by psycho_maniac (Post 1737568)

one word. "Microsoft" lol they suck. i LOVE bb's facebook as its integrated in your contacts and i really LOVE androids. there really integrated. guess we'll never get something as good as that. the thing that sucks about flashing roms. i have to link account every time i flash a rom, in order for it to update the pictures of contacts that is.