Our Favorite iPhone App: Facebook for iPhone
It’s been about two month since the iPhone apps store opened on iTunes, and thus far our favorite app is the Facebook app for iTunes (downloable here).
We have found that communication through the easy to use iPhone interface improves upon the website version, and syncs nicely with our texting. Noticing more what other people are doing on Facebook has been a key benefit – a.k.a. “Status Update.” When we’re using a computer’s browser, we tend to visit our own profile and own world, if you will.
SMS vs. Facebook Chat
Presciently, on AllFacebook in July, Nick O’Neill posited that the new Facebook app could mean the end to text messaging, or SMS, as we know it. We agree. For one, Facebook chat is free, SMS is not.
Also, the functionality is similar to any text messaging with Facebook, but the added features of the Facebook iPhone community application make it more useful – and it doesn’t hurt that the interface designed by the product team is very easy to use and looks great.
As VentureBeat has detailed, the Facebook app takes aim at Twitter, too – the popular micro-blogging service through “Status Update” – which asks users, “What are you doing?”
Again, Twitter uses the costly SMS. Facebook is free.
We use several apps on the iPhone, but so far Facebook is our favorite app.
What’s your fav iPhone? Let us know and we’ll profile it here.
August 28, 2008 – 9:50 am