Native Facebook Client for Windows Mobile

[deanwoof]

using mogul 6.1 and cant log in. An unknown error occured.

[magnifoca]

Originally Posted by deanwoof

using mogul 6.1 and cant log in. An unknown error occured.

Dean: Have you followed instructions found here, to give Snap2Face permission?

[magnifoca]

Originally Posted by skyhook007

I tried it, and actually think it is not bad.

My main complaint is that I cannot scroll the friends' list with my finger. Had to use the scroll bar. Any plan to introduce support for finger gestures?

This is in the works, and will be available in the next version (1.1).

[dishe]

My problem with it is that it seems to be doing a lot of updating in the background or something on boot, because whenever it starts, I have to wait 30 sec to a 1 min before I can do anything. Sometimes it even totally locks up the device during this.
After that, however, it is totally useable and great specifically for uploading photos from the phone's camera and directory.
However, for standard things like friend updates and changing my status, I do find that a quick jaunt over to m.facebook.com is faster and more efficient. However, as was already pointed out here, there are thinks snap2face offers that the mobile portal does NOT, which makes it irreplaceable.

To tell the truth, I think I would be much happier with just an app that handles the photo side of things. Perhaps there should be an option to turn off the rest of it if the user doesn't want it to update all the feeds and everything each time?

[dishe]

Also, I would like to suggest more integration into the OS as far as things like finger scrolling (as mentioned earlier) if someone has ftouchflo, etc., not to mention that the screen does not update properly when switching to/from landscape.

Its a good app, and with some UI tweaks, it could be a GREAT app.

[magnifoca]

dishe:

Thanks for your feedback. In our next version, due to be released in a few days, we will have support for finger gestures.

On launch, Snap2Face will try to check 1) current status, 2) new notifications, and 3) friends' updated status. And this may take sometime on a slow connection. We will make this an option in the next version, so you can turn off these updates when you launch the program.

[Darrkman]

Originally Posted by magnifoca

How do you upload photos through http://m.facebook.com? And how do you check your inbox/wall etc at user-defined intervals though it?

You may be referring to uploading photos using MMS, or getting messages through SMS. But these are not through the mobile portal. They are a pain to use, and messages are often cut-off in the middle because they don't fit in SMS. Not to mention that even this limited functionality is not available to a large number of users (T-Mobile and Alltel in the US, for example).

There are two ways to upload pics from your phone. First you have to add mobile application to your Facebook account. Once you have that you can upload pics either by MMS or through email to mobile@facebook.com. I use email because I have Sprint Touch and don't have MMS. It works just fine.

I also get friend requests and check my wall through the m.facebook.com application.

[Fierofiend]

I tried this app out today, i like it alot! I agree that the next version is going to be really nice having gestures. The photo album portion of this program is a really nice interface imo.

[magnifoca]

We have added support for finger gestures. In any list view, you can now move your finger east to select any item, west to go back to the previous screen, north to scroll down, and south to scroll up.

Please download and install the update by pointing your phone's browser at http://m.magnifoca.com, and let us know your feedback.

Best regards,
Magnifoca, Inc

[dishe]

Originally Posted by Darrkman

There are two ways to upload pics from your phone. First you have to add mobile application to your Facebook account. Once you have that you can upload pics either by MMS or through email to mobile@facebook.com. I use email because I have Sprint Touch and don't have MMS. It works just fine.

I also get friend requests and check my wall through the m.facebook.com application.

YMMV. Most people haven't gotten the send via email to work.
I've tried multiple times on my HTC Titan, even emailed them about it since it works with the iPhone's mail client.
The response was "only iphone email for mobile upload is supported at this time".
I've been using sMMS to send since MMS is accepted by facebook, but its a hassle to compose multiple messages for each pic in a batch upload.
This is where snap2face truly shines, and the biggest reason I use it.
Now, if I could just get to that function quicker by disabling automatic status updates...

Hey magnifoca, how about you have 2 "modes" of operation? Standard mode, like you have it now, and quick photo mode, which would just be for image uploading. You could invoke it via command line, like snap2face.exe -quickphoto, and have 2 shortcuts in the programs menu (one for quick, one for full).
If it were open source, that's totally what I would do to it...