With
this year, one of the most important tools, which has shown its supremacy
above everything in online world is, Facebook. Not only has it changed the
way people interact over the internet, but it has re-defined the rules.
Baring some of the controversies FB ran into, weather it may be the privacy
issues earlier, or the more recent privacy issues around Facebook’s
settlement with FTC and selling of private information outside, it continues
to rule the charts. Like it or hate it, Facebook single handedly has change
the online world forever.
Hence,
I thought of putting together some of the nicer apps for Facebook which gets
us connected to FB on our mobile devices and tablets over the android
platform. Lot of friends of mine, have also asked for what app do I use
usually, and I hope this would be able to help the ones, looking for
different options for FB.
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 Challenges still faced are the app not working well with some phones. The notifications still doesn’t seem to be working rite.
On my S2, it just continues to
display new messages, when there are none. So, notifications aren’t working
exactly how they are supposed to.
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The official app for android store. I
have to admit, I wasn’t a big of fan of this app, since it usually used to
crash on my Acer Iconia A500 tablet running on android Honeycomb. Nor did it
support the HD format with icons getting dithered upon stretching. The same
situation I was facing on my mobile as well. The latest update though, has
driven some initial brownie points home for FB. The app seems to be much more
stable and running well. The timeline feature is supported well, and the
interface is simplified and much in-line with your experience of the full
site.
I am still going to say, that
Facebook definitely needs to give it more attention and bring it to a level
where it’s stable and does the job efficiently. It’s reaching there, but
taking lot of time and that’s the precise reason the official app still
doesn’t have the same numbers which you may expect.
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The only challenge with this
app which I still notice is the messaging. The messages sometimes don’t see
to work and sometimes the person’s message carries wrong image which
confuses. On the honeycomb version, I have noticed the failure of messages
more often.
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I have to say upfront that this is one
among my favorite apps, for the experience both on mobile and tablet is
similar and good. The finest point was the layout it gives you on a tablet
version. The icons are laid to the left, creating a very friendly browse
area, whereas in the centre is the feed and the specific feed which user is
viewing is to the right side. This three column layout works extremely well,
and adopted by lot of great apps (Read
Google’s Gmail app). Not only it lets me create multiple users, but
navigating between users or switching between your managed pages or your
profile is simple. The apps works quite well, in getting the notification
updates and the controls are placed at intuitive points. The mobile version
is a similar mention with good features, making it a reliable app for the
purpose.
Recommended for use over any of your platforms of
android.
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Seesmic, another app on my favorite
list. Not only does it Facebook for you, but it lets you work with other
social networks, like twitter, g+ as well. I fell for seismic, initially due
to their color theme, cleaner layout, and the way the whole application manages
content, both on tablets and mobiles. Later it was roboust experience, and
feature package which retained me back. I am still divided between
Friendcaster and seismic, but may be for additional features, Seesmic scores
higher. Rock solid app with great UI and feature packed.
Recommended for use over
any of your platforms of android.
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A nice app for
starters. The app has been specially positioned at using Facebook on a
tablet. The app has been optimized for honeycomb. Truely so! The UI is
pretty, kept simple and does the job. It uses the good available real estate
nicely, and displays bigger images, crisper text and nice navigation.
Recommended for tablet use. I would still say if you get used to Seesmic or
Friendcaster, you may not use it, but sure try it.
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So, while this
may be very well my last post in the year 2011, I am wishing that the coming
year brings much more in terms of technology and learning for all us. Do
share what you thought of this article and which is your favorite app. Is
your favorite app, not listed here? Then do share with me, the one you love
to you use.
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