Attention Facebook Beta Client users: Palm’s dropped a preview image of what we can expect in a coming release: full and landscape support with selectable/filtered views of the news feed, the ability to clear all notifications at once, and other unspecified updates. Drop date is unknown, but we’re excited regardless.
Can we get a “huzzah!”?
Source: Facebook for Palm webOS, thanks to supercluver for the tip!
PreCentral forum member zeeebs was reading SF Weekly yesterday and flipping through the pages he spotted an ad for the Palm Pixi. Cool, another Palm ad, you think. But wait, there’s more (isn’t there always?). This ad showed off the webOS Facebook app, but it’s not like any Facebook app we’ve used on these phones.
If you squint real hard you can see what’s going on. The background of the app features the same News Feed stylings that we’re used to, but the top bar now includes a drop-down button that lets you choose between your News Feed, viewing Photos, a plain-old Search, your Inbox, checking your own Profile, and viewing Events. Those options are not options that we have right now in the Palm Facebook app, which as Dieter has described, is more like Twitter than Facebook. Whether you like that or not is another question entirely, but this ad at least shows the possibilities.
The question we have to ask is: will this be an update we’ll see any time soon? Or is this just the art department gone wild? So far we haven’t seen Palm’s ad gurus screw up with the new ad campaign, so we’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and hope that an update to the Facebook app is on its way.
One thousand one hundred eleven. Eleven eleven. Eleventy eleventeen. Or just 1,111. That’s just a wacky number to roll out of bed and see. But that’s how many apps there are in the Palm App Catalog right now, at least on the Palm Pre on Sprint – no saying how many you’ll find in other locales (except that it is depressingly less). Hopefully that’ll change sooner than later, but in the meantime we do have one thousand one hundred eleven apps to peruse, with the newest all listed after the break.