FriendsFlow ($1.99 in the App Catalog) has been around in various incarnations since before there were paid apps, being one of the very first third party Facebook clients for webOS in the homebrew section. Since then, Palm has released its own Facebook App, another third party app called FriendsBook has hit, and Facebook has been updating their mobile site on a consistent basis. So that begs the question: how does the only paid Facebook app in the Catalog stack up against the competition?
While Twitter was designed from the ground up for mobility, the world’s largest social network – Facebook – was not. Even so, with various incarnations of mobile sites and an ever-expanding portfolio of mobile apps, Facebook’s mobile membership has grown by leaps and bounds. So much so that Facebook has passed the 100 million monthly mobile users mark. [via: MobileSyrup] While the majority of Facebookers still use the social network through their desktop machines, more and more are leveraging the power of their smartphones to access Facebook on the go.
With that in mind, we though we’d take a moment to highlight the Facebook options available to webOS users. There are more than a few choices out there, so we’ve got the list waiting for you after the break.
The webOS App Catalog has received two updated apps, in the form of PicHunt – Vintage Cars and PicHunt – Pets yesterday and PicHunt – Space Explorer today. The trio of spot-the-difference apps from EpicTilt were available before as free apps and now are $0.99. They now come with 50 photos each to examine and can upload your scores online so that you can compare with other players.
While that’s good and all, the App Catalog has also lost two applications: Homebrew graduates FriendsFlow and BlockDrop. It turns out that FriendsFlow was taken down due to changes made with the way Facebook works that broke the app; the developer is working on an update. There is no official word from Palm as to why BlockDrop, a Tetris game, has vanished from the store, though being the paranoid conspiracy theorists that we are, we have our suspicions…