Facebook 1.7 Released – Improved Caching & More

by the BerryReview Team on Oct 17th, 2009 at 9:01 pm EST

I was out with a nasty virus for the last few days and missed this little update from RIM. They have updated the official Facebook application to version 1.7.0.18.

You can pick up the update at m.facebook.com or www.blackberry.com/facebook and also in the App World.

New in this version:

News Feed Support – The ability to set the News Feed as the landing page
News Feed Filters – The ability to toggle between ‘News Feed, Status Updates, Photos & Links’
Caching Improvements – The application uses the device memory more efficiently.
Feed Pre-fetching – The user will not be required to wait while their Facebook Feeds are updated
View Profile Menu Option – Clients may easily view their own profile by selecting ‘View my Profile’ from the menu. "

Thanks to Kinjalkumar, Nick, & DavidH for sending this one in!

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This entry was posted on Saturday, October 17th, 2009 and is filed under Free Software, News, Utilities.
Tags: Facebook 1.7

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7 Comments to “Facebook 1.7 Released – Improved Caching & More”

Posted by: andrew
October 18, 2009 at 11:53 am EST

I am not noticing to much difference here, but have really been relying on Socialscope for my facebook updates since it handles my tweets and facebook in one, we do need more facebook functionality though

Andrew
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- Posted by: Ronen Halevy
  October 18, 2009 at 1:10 pm EST
  
  Yeah I am not noticing much different other than the fact that IT screwed up my whole OS!!! F-ing hate when this happens
  
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Posted by: Tim
October 18, 2009 at 5:36 pm EST

The only reason I use FaceBook on my Bold is for the mobile photo uploads, otherwise, I’d drop it to create memory space!

Sparty1216 = Twitter

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- Posted by: Kristin
  October 19, 2009 at 1:37 pm EST
  
  Same with me too. I use SocialScope to update FB but the app for uploading photos.
  
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Posted by: Frederick
October 18, 2009 at 11:03 pm EST

Why i keep disconnected when trying to login with 1.7?

Anybody has the same problem?

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Posted by: Hugo
October 19, 2009 at 1:18 pm EST

@Frederick Just in case, do you have any other app in your BB connecting to facebook like SocialScope or IM+? It could be more than one app is fighting to login to your account.

Hope this helps

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