Native Facebook Client for Windows Mobile
 

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Magnifoca Inc has released SkyBook 1.0 (formerly known as Snap2Face), a FREE Facebook client for Windows Mobile devices (Pocket PC and Smartphones). With SkyBook you stay in touch with Facebook friends all the time. You can download SkyBook at http://www.magnifoca.com/products.html

Features:

* Sleek, graphic-rich user interface
* Set your status while on-the-go
* View friends' status and detailed information
* View friends' friends and send friendship requests
* Get notified of events like wall post, message,
poke, and friend request
* View your pokes, wall, inbox, and friend requests,
all in full text
* Poke friends, send message to friends, and post
on friends' wall
* Access you and your friends' photo albums
* Ability to view, zoom in/out, and pan full-sized
photos, and play slideshow
* Upload photos from built-in camera or file folder
* Import friends' profile photos to Outlook Contacts
(photo Call ID)
* and more...

Screen Captures
More screeshots can be found here

Is SkyBook Free?
SkyBook is completely free. Data usage charges may
apply depending on your mobile carrier. We recommend
you get an unlimited data plan from your carrier.

Privacy:
SkyBook is a Facebook client running on your mobile
phone and it communicates directly with Facebook, without
going through proxy servers. Magnifoca Inc, the maker of
SkyBook, does not have access to your personal
information, or otherwise share your information with any
third-party.

Re: Native Facebook Client for Windows Mobile
 

I just use http://m.facebook.com, and that's sufficient for me.

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Man I would love to try this out, but I always get an exception error when I try running it.

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thanks for the update info... my last experience with this app was pretty slow and buggy but i like where it's headed.

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Me too I installed it and everything but everytime I tried to run it I got an error message too, I'll give it another shot though.

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Skyhook007:

Let me just list a few shortcomings of the mobile portal:

• You cannot upload photos from the mobile portal of facebook.
• You cannot view your photos in slide show with mobile portal
• You cannot import friends' profile photos to use as photo caller-id with the mobile portal
• You cannot check your inbox/wall/friendship requests automatically

I can go on, but I think you get the idea. Yes, you CAN stay with the mobile portal, but why? - Snap2Face is FREE and works much better.

Re: Native Facebook Client for Windows Mobile
 

We have fixed quite a few exceptions in the beta version. The current release (1.0) should be pretty stable. If you have not tried it recently, please give it another try.

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Actually, let's be fair. Eeverything you listed except the auto slideshow can be done through the facebook portal. Your app is good but please lets keep the facts straight.

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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).

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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?

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

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

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

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Re: Native Facebook Client for Windows Mobile
 

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

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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...

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I can't login It says incorrect password/username.. I did all the allowing too


NeverMind.. Got it

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Funny, in the past, the app automatically checked for updates and told me there was a new one.

I decided to manually go to m.magnifoca.com and reinstall, however I don't see any difference, and finger gestures are definitely NOT working. Did the update not get pushed to your webserver?

Also, unless its implented like A_C does his scrolling apps, its probably a better idea to just allow a device's native finger scrolling system to take over instead of creating your own.

Otherwise, someone with ftouchflo, for example, would have problems using it because ftouchflo is trying to adjust the scroll bars, and snap2face is trying to use its own touch interface. A similar problem is found with apps like Google Maps, etc, which require finger scrolling, and the solution is to add the program to the "exclude" list in the finger scrolling app config.

The native Touch and Diamond Bio-Touch would probably have the same problem.
Why can't you just use a standard WM window system and scroll bars instead of re-inventing the wheel? An app more native to the OS would probably run smoother as well, not to mention be more cross-device compatible...

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I am getting the same thing on my touch. i made a storage folder installed the cert but i cant run spaddcert.exe. when i do install the snap2face application it does say one or more certs have been added. what next? when i ttry to do the update the app just crashes.

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Just a heads-up: My Facebook account was recently disabled because I was using this program. Apparently it shows up on Facebook's log scanner as an automated scraping program. Luckily they re-enabled my account after about a week.

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I was able to get it to log in once and after that for each step I got the error communicationg problem.

Now I can't even get it to log on.

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yea, getting error while communicating with facebook. oh well. hate that facebook puts out an iphone app, a blackberry app, but not a windows mobile app.

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Careful with trying to connect too often when you're getting those errors. That's exactly what caused them to disable my account.


No love from Facebook, and also no love from Google for Gmail. What did WinMo ever do to them?!

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I know where you're coming from. I just had my account disabled yesterday for the SECOND time. The first time it took about 12 days to get my account back. Their only recommendation last time was to stop using snap2face/skybook. I find that ridiculous.

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Gmail was fixed back in January 2008. http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/...-Mobile_1.html

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Why do you have to give the program permission to update your status or upload pictures without your approval or without notifying you??? Seems to conflict with the statement that it will not do anything without your permission...

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Any plans for integrating facebook chat into this app?

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This app is phenomenal.

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I had that error a few times so i downlaoded/reinstaleld the app and evidently that fixed things

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:( I can't get this program to work and I really wanted to try it out. I have installed it and the certificate on my phone. I have given all the permissions that it needed. I have entered my login information correctly... but it still gives me the login information is incorrect or I haven't given the program permissions error?????

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*so* slow compared to the ipod/iphone or even blackberry alternatives:(
-mark

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At least it started up for you... I can't get it to even log on. :(

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Same exact problem as you NinjaMom. :(

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Ditto... is it because I have a very long password (20 characters, upper/lowercase/numbers/non-alpha-numeric)?? I don't get it... facebook shows:
applications, show, granted additional permissions, Status Updates, Skybook, edit settings, everything checked. What gives? This doesn't seem to be the same kind of error that others of HTC seem to have with locked apps. I mean, if the app is installed, doesn't that mean you can install apps? I've also accepted key (after reinstalling). It shows v1.2.

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how did you fix the login error?? i can't seem to get past that notification even after i allowed all the permission settings on facebook and installed all the certificates on my ppc. please if anyone can figure this out or has figured it out let me know. i've also uninstalled the app and reinstalled it after allowing all permission settings. HELP!!!!

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I am having a different issue with Skybook. I can get it to run with no problems, however, when i go to refresh my friends' profiles, 9 times out of 10 it states that a problem has occured downloading my friends pictures and then crashes.

Anyone else experience this?