Facebook Update Brings Video to iPhone

Posted by rorypiper on June 18th, 2010 in Applications , iPhone , iPod Touch , News

The Facebook app for iPhone and iPod Touch has been updated to 3.1.3. This update is mainly for a few ongoing bugs, but it also brings support for video playback on iPhone and iPod Touch.

New features in this version:

- You can now watch Facebook videos.
- You can now view and write on walls of events.
- Uploaded photos are now 720px wide.

This version contains fixes for the following bugs:

- Could not comment on photos accessed from Notifications
- Could not upload photos smaller than a certain size
- No more than 2 notifications were highlighted as unread
- Status updates appeared out of order in News Feed
- Broken photo album links in News Feed
- Birthdays view had months in wrong order
- Last section of friend list was incomplete if you had fewer than 8 friends
- Notes with non-ASCII text were cut off at the end

This is a great update for the Facebook app, as it fixes a lot of bugs that people have been complaining about for a while. I have a question, though; why not add support for multitasking and task completion, in iOS 4, in this version. These are must have features, for uploading photos or video. With the release of iOS 4 just around the corner, you think they would have spent a little extra time on 3.1.3, and give it a full update, including support for iPad. Maybe Facebook 4.0 is coming soon?

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  • Rizulli

    Facebook has always been a little slow on the uptake. Given the update number (3.1.3) they have probably been working on that update since iOS 3.1.3 came out.