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Facebook for Android Gets Updated to 1.6, Adds Video Upload and Pages
Check your Market now, because Facebook for Android just got an update! It is not necessarily a huge one, but it does improve and bring a couple of features to the mobile app: Improved News Feed, Pages Support, and Video Upload.
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Locomo Labs Releases Tablet-Optimized Facebook App ‘Friend Me’
Locomo Labs is making quite a name for themselves with a string of recent tablet-optimized apps hitting the Android Market. Following closely on the heels of Newsr (RSS reader) and Tweetcomb (Twitter), a Facebook application called Friend Me arrives. Like their other offerings, the one …
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Score One for the Good Guys – HTC to Reverse Locked Bootloader Decision
”There has been overwhelmingly customer feedback that people want access to open bootloaders on HTC phones. I want you to know that we’ve listened. Today, I’m confirming we will no longer be locking the bootloaders on our devices. Thanks for your passion, support and patience,” Peter Chou, CEO of HTC
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Seesmic 1.7 Released with A Host of Shortcuts and Customization Options
Popular Twitter and Facebook client Seesmic released an update into the Android Market yesterday, adding a variety of new options for users. Centered around giving you what you need in as little time as possible, these new features include shortcuts for composing tweets/updates, saved Twitter …
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Google Drops Facebook Sync from Nexus S
That Gingerbread update that’s rolling out to Nexus S owners right now? Besides adding NFC functionality, it also is removing a feature from Google’s current flagship phone: Facebook contact sync.
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Are These HTC Handsets the Facebook Phones?
Here we go again with the Facebook phone rumors. Except this time, we have some real-deal looking renders. No seriously. It’s going to happen if we wish hard enough.
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Facebook denies rumor that they are launching branded phones with HTC
We’ve all heard the news about some new potential Facebook-branded phones, but are they legit?
Dan Rose, head of business development for Facebook stated, “This is really just another example of a manufacturer who has taken our public APIs (application programming interfaces) and integrated them into their device in an interesting way.”
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Facebook App Updated, Includes Deals
The official Facebook client gets better every time out. This release adds support for their new Deals feature as well as minor bug fixes.
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Rumor: Facebook to Launch Phone at M.W.C.
The rumors are back: Facebook will be releasing their own phones. At least according to an article by the U.K.’s City A.M., which was also an early source of Nexus S rumors. Details are still sketchy, but word is the two phones, made by HTC, will run a modified version of Android that will rely heavily on integrated Facebook features like the news feed and messages.
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Watch What You Say: YouMail Adds “Social Voicemail”
Think twice before you leave a message with that fascinating story about what’s happening to the toenail on your pinky toe: it may end up on Facebook. YouMail (and competitor PhoneFusion) has been providing visual voicemail for Android since long before a Google Voice app existed, …
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INQ’s ‘Cloud Torch’ Could be the Facebook Phone that Doesn’t Exist
Let’s revisit an Android rumor that likes to rear its head every few months, shall we? The “Facebook Phone” that has been both long-rumored and officially denied is back again. Today sees a Bluetooth SIG filing dated December 23rd listing what is said to be …
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Chat and Push Notifications Come to Facebook App!
Two highly sought after components that have been missing from the Facebook for Android app have arrived. Chat and push notifications have arrived today, bringing the mobile version that much closer to its web-based counterpart.
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Skyfire 3.0 add the Facebook social layer to browsing.
Skyfire has been around for a little bit now. When I first used it, it felt like a second-rate browser. Skyfire emerged around the same time I was exploring Dolphin Browser HD and Opera Mini, and was really just noise. Noise that allowed me to watch Flash videos on certain sites, and that made it cool. Skyfire grew on Android until they were ready to blitz past the scathing, snide remarks of the iPhone fanboys at Engadget and Gizmodo to cause quite a sensation on two platforms. That’s a pretty serious achievement already, but it’s clear that the team at Skyfire doesn’t plan on slowing down with their 3.0 update!
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Tonight on AGTN
This week on AGTN (Android Guys Thursday Nights): It is time to be thankful! We will be talking about what we are most thankful for in the world of Android Eric Schmidt had an interesting interview during the Web 2.0 Summit, we will break it …
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Facebook Adds Places, Groups Support to Android App (v1.4)
Sorry folks, there’s not going to be a Facebook phone. Mark Zuckerberg was quick to point out that the company was not designing a smart phone. Instead, they announced a new platform for developers and mobile app integration. Oh, and they also tweaked the Android app.
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