Facebook Merges Mobile Sites for All Phones

Facebook is revamping the mobile interface of the site, as the social network announced 250 million people use the site via their mobile phones. Instead of having several versions of the site for touchscreen phones, and non-touchscreen phones, Facebook will implement one single mobile site that adapts features available to users depending on the phone they use.

Facebook Product Designer Lee Byron wrote on the company's blog that running several versions of mobile sites was stifling the ability to innovate, because developers had to work on several code bases. So instead, they are launching a unified mobile site, eliminating the differences between touch.facebook.com and m.facebook.com.

"There will no longer be a difference between m.facebook.com and
touch.facebook.com, we'll automatically serve you the best version of the site for your device," Byron explains. "This way we can move even faster and build new features just once for every mobile device."

In the new m.facebook.com, touchscreen smartphone visitors will see Facebook's touch-friendly interface (previously of touch.facebook.com), which adapts on the phone's hardware capabilities. For example, a phone with no GPS will not see the Places Check-in feature. Feature phone users will see a scaled-down version of the mobile site, with an interface adapted for their screens.

To power the new mobile site, Facebook created a UI framework based on XHP, Javelin, and WURFL, a detailed database matching features available to device capabilities. 0.facebook.com, the text-only Facebook mobile site designed for speed, will also use the same framework.

"This enables us to very precisely target experiences and features to thousands of different devices," Byron writes. "For example, some devices don't have keyboards, or have limited means of navigating a page, tiny screens, or crippling browser bugs. We can customize our site in each case to deal with these issues and provide the best possible experience to everyone."

Facebook Brings More Features to iPhone & Mobile Users

Almost over 200 million people use Facebook with a mobile device. Whether it's an iOS device or even a simple mobile device, Facebook is used so much to share photos, access apps, and connect and interact with friends. In October, Facebook has added a dashboard to the regular desktop website to see how applications are using your information.

Now, Facebook as released this same feature to the mobile devices. It will allow you to edit this information and stay updated off a mobile device now!

In the picture below, you can see the application Loopy. As you can see, this Loopy application is connected with Facebook, under it are options that you can toggle with a click and easy click of the remove button. This will allow you to control you settings on the go instead of off a computer. This is very useful for people that need to adjust their settings quickly.

You can also edit your basic information and who can see your profile. This is very important for anyone who wants to change anything at all. These features will be made possible by Facebook themselves! The features should roll out in the next few weeks to all mobile devices and we may see a new Facebook for iPhone app update soon. [via Facebook]

Facebook to Introduce New Mobile Features this Wednesday

We are just in, Facebook is going to hold an event in their Palo Alto Headquarter, California on 3rd of November this Wednesday.This event is called as "Facebook Mobile Event". The name unveils lots of thing that Facebook may revile in their event. Facebook will have some major announcement in this event.

Lots of rumors surfaces on the web indicating that Facebook is going to announce some features regarding to Facebook and Mobile. Others showing that is getting famous about this event that Facebook is going to announce their long rumored Facebook phone that was denied by Facebook, and this won't be like google's Nexus one.

It's also expected that facebook is going to announce their own OS in this event. May be they are going to announce Facebook for iPad or for Windows Phone 7, who knows? There are lots and lots of rumor going on about this event, and no one knows what is going to be happen in this event. Until then we want your suggestions about what is facebook going to announce?

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Facebook For iOS Exceeded 100 Million Active Monthly Users

Yesterday Facebook announced that the "Facebook for iPhone" has passed a staggering 100 million users per month, which indicates that about the same number of devices currently sold by Apple, but an important note to clarify that the Facebook application doesn't support native iPad interface.

The development task of the Facebook was complicated, Jow Hewitt, who headed the Facebook development project, leaved the project due to the restrictive policies in Apple. He spoke to TechCrunch:

My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple’s policies. I respect their right to manage their platform however they want, however I am philosophically opposed to the existence of their review process. I am very concerned that they are setting a horrible precedent for other software platforms, and soon gatekeepers will start infesting the lives of every software developer.

The web is still unrestricted and free, and so I am returning to my roots as a web developer. In the long term, I would like to be able to say that I helped to make the web the best mobile platform available, rather than being part of the transition to a world where every developer must go through a middleman to get their software in the hands of users.

[via ispazio]

Fast & Free Facebook Mobile Access through New Site [0.facebook.com]

Today, Facebook Launched a new way for people to access Internet anytime and anywhere, 0.facebook.com is a new mobile site that includes all of the key features of Facebook but is optimized for speed. It initially is available through more than 50 mobile operators in 45 countries and territories with zero data charges.

The 0.facebook.com site is only available on the networks of these 50 mobile operators around the world. People can still access Facebook from facebook standard mobile site m.facebook.com or for touch screen mobile devices, touch.facebook.com, under their operator's standard data charges.

This Method/Way developed with two main attributes and features which are fast and free and this is really Amazing!!

Free: People now can access 0.facebook.com without any data charges. Using 0.facebook.com is completely free. People will only pay for data charges when they view photos or when they leave 0.facebook.com to browse other mobile sites. When they click to view a photo or browse another mobile site a notification page will appear to confirm that they will be charged if they want to leave 0.facebook.com

Fast: As it includes all the key features of the standard mobile site [m.facebook.com], Users can update their status, view their News Feed, like or comment on posts, send and reply to messages, or write on their friends' Wall just as they do on Facebook.com.