Facebook application launches for RIM Blackberry
This is great news. According to many sources Facebook is launching a new mobile version for RIM Blackberry. This is extremely great news for my Blackberry 8820 I traded in for the iPhone.
Truth is, one thing I loved about the iPhone is the ability to go to a mobile version of Facebook and quickly browse my profile for any updates or friend adds. Now the advantage of Facebook running on iPhone was that it ran through the Safari Browser so it was a rich image based site on the iPhone. Whereas, so far on the Blackberry 8820 internet browser websites appear text based which is common among many mobile internet browsers. To improve this experience I downloaded and installed the Opera Mobile browser from the first day for my 8820. Though this Opera Mobile is a better experience, it does not come close the the iPhone Safari.
So far Facebook has announced their mobile version for Blackberry devices but I haven’t been able to get my hands on an actual sample. The above photo is a photoshop rendered combination. So I hope Facebook has addressed the visual experience.
Update:Â I found on TechCrunch a link to go and get the Blackberry Facebook application. I went through the porcess and it took me to a download page:
http://www.blackberry.com/facebook/mobiledownload.Â
Unfortunately after accepting the terms and going to the download page it sends me to a download page that has no download 
… will report when things are taken care of.
Bookmark it: 
October 31st, 2007 at 10:18 pm
If you want to see some actual screenshots.
http://www.blakebrannon.com/2007/10/31/blackberry-facebook-app-the-game-changes-again/
I think the App works decent and is a leap forward for RIM.
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:21 am
great article, but the link you gave to download the app wants to install the app on my computer and it says toward the end that the ‘blackberry drivers’ are missing…. and if i try to go to the actual URL in the blackberry internet browser, it doesnt recognize the ActiveX install…
How did you INSTALL the APP on your Blackberry?
November 23rd, 2007 at 3:44 pm
I’ve got the new bb facebook application installed… and it’s not a great experience. It gives you some neat short cuts, but it’s not a truly optimized experience like it is on the iphone.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Did you get the download issue resolved? I am having the same problem on my new Curve and I suspect that AT&T is somehow behind it. I had no issues with my Pearl before, but my new Curve seems to have a lot of things that AT&T doesn’t want me to do.