Facebook 1.5 for BlackBerry Leaked and Reviewed!

on 3 Mar 2009 04:53 PM

Back in November I dropped a blog post detailing all of the updates coming your way in Facebook 1.5, which we knew would be coming in early 2009 but were hoping would launch in January. January has obviously come and gone, but the good news is that Facebook 1.5 is just around the corner and the folks over at BGR got their hands on a copy of it to play with and have given it some thorough usage and followed it up with a review. Click the image above to jump on over to read it all the details.

You can't download it just yet, but keep it locked to CrackBerry - we'll give you the heads up as soon as it's available.

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34 Comments

Posted by arukaen Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1178 days ago

AWESOMEEEEE

Posted by podi Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1178 days ago

I want it I want it!!

Posted by dogsinor Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1178 days ago

Looks so much nicer

Posted by yhwhsozo Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1178 days ago

im looking forward to the update

Posted by PvT Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1178 days ago

It's not a stretch to say that it should be pretty easy to improve upon the BB/FB app we got now. Lookin forward to givin'er a test drive...

Posted by thehawkins Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1178 days ago

We'll see it in April.

Posted by rapsball4 Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1177 days ago

Definitely a fan of the Contact Integration - such a pain to have to look up people's emails on their Facebooks if I don't have it on my MacBook (or Blackberry by synchronization). Been hoping to find an app that would synchronize them since I got my crackberry. Other stuff looks nice, too, but that's the big one for me.

Posted by Bla1ze Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1177 days ago

Hmmm, looks rather lackluster to me.

Glad I don't use facebook...Hopefully they have fixed the bug where it kills off your emails from being deliv. to your device as well.

Posted by gameboy213 Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1177 days ago

Seems like the same app to me.... very little improvement.

Posted by lovin2act Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1177 days ago

Looks like a different app to me....much improvement.

Posted by chbak014 Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1177 days ago

bleh...
iphone facebook is soooo much better.
that is ONE app i miss moving from the iphone--that and shazam...

Posted by ammaredt Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1177 days ago

will there ever be fb chat integration????

Posted by steelers08812 Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1177 days ago

commenting on staus updates is a definite plus. glad to see this. siince this is coming out so late is v 2.0 pushed back as well? i heard facebook chat would be enabled in that version

Posted by Gian_ Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1177 days ago

How safe will the contacts application be given that a copy of your ENTIRE contacts list will be sent to facebook given their recent security issues etc? :/

Posted by ClassaN0va Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1177 days ago

Why does this look exactly the same

Posted by irishcarbomb1 Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1177 days ago

I was really looking forward to the February 27th release that our BB rep told us of.

I hate so much that the current version doesn't even work right 99% of the time, and am really looking forward to a version that does work. Hopefully that is the main improvement with this update, that it actually works! Otherwise, everything else they added is just a giant waste of time.

Posted by Cocotaso Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1177 days ago

Finally a new version for my BOLD!

Posted by Queen4111 Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1177 days ago

I wish it was released NOW!!!

Posted by deloreancowboy Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1177 days ago

This looks great to me. I don't care about a pretty UI, but I love vringo facebook and to not have to go on my laptop to sync is an awesome idea. Syncing contacts and calandars is awesome! (Actually I just hope that it uploads your contacts from Facebook). Combine that with GoogleSync and everything should be done.

I'd much rather Facebook chat be contralled by Beejive. I don't want to be "online" all the time. And I don't want to have to go through five programs to get offline.

Can we get a link pretty please, lol.

Posted by geewhipped Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1177 days ago

well.. I guess it is a slightly shinier turd than the turd we are currently stuck with. After the delays, I was expecting much much more.

Posted by natenate360 Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1177 days ago

Sweet! I was actually checking the developer's corner on FB to see if there was a way to sync contacts from FB onto my BB... but I'd be mildly scared to have FB access to my BB contacts...

Posted by sheerheartattack Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1177 days ago

Will we finally be able to check our God-damned inbox now? It would only ever send new messages, but not messages that were already part of another thread. This is pretty much exclusively why I immediately uninstalled.

Posted by bergeronjc Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1177 days ago

I'm a little shocked that Facebook is still popular. What is the point of it?

Posted by deloreancowboy Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1177 days ago

For me the point of Facebook is the ability to contact old classmates and Family, mostly. Seeing where they are now and who's married, etc. Where they work and such.

Facebook = family and old classmates.
Myspace = advertising band gigs, etc.
Linkedin = networking for that next job.

That's how I see it.

Posted by SubyWill Tuesday, Mar 03, 2009 1177 days ago

awesome! i can't wait!

Posted by intenseone Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1177 days ago

Best SITE ONLINE Second to Crackberry.com

Posted by icanttellyou Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1177 days ago

cool

Posted by kalen004 Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1177 days ago

I think that this edition will only be slightly better than the previous edition; We need Facebook Chat and to be able to view profiles without connecting to the browser. The Iphone App definitely has this one beat for a couple of versions.

Posted by Xopher Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1177 days ago

One note that interested me was that the Calendar integration will post FB events in a seperate "Facebook" calendar. I know that OS 4.5 has the ability for multiple calendars - didn't think that was an option prior to 4.5. So, either this means you have to be running 4.5 to use the new FB app, or some features might not be available for anyone running 4.2/4.3.

Posted by tamster Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1177 days ago

What I'm really looking for in a FB upgrade is the ability to chat online with friends. That allows me to connect with friends while at work.

Posted by MzSweetyPie82 Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1177 days ago

So...I don't understand (and this could just be because I currently don't own a Blackberry) but what is the difference between downloading a Facebook application and just going to the Facebook mobile site on your web browser??

Posted by korp Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1177 days ago

Good chat application ... just like I've been needing :) no more computer hehe.

Posted by r0bn4571c Wednesday, Mar 04, 2009 1177 days ago

That was a really well written review, I'm pretty eager to play around with the new features.

-r0b

Posted by BluDawn Monday, Mar 30, 2009 1150 days ago

I found it just searching for apps the other day and i love it!!