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[Facebook Apps] - Facebook S! VS. Facebook for Android

To start off, I'll shed light on where you can find the following applications
Facebook S! - Found in the [Samsung Apps] application off your application drawer.
Facebook for Android - Found in the [Android Market].
Well as we all know. Facebook for Android is horrible as it brings you to the mobile site everytime you hit something off the Notifications area(not integrated within the application itself). And it's slow compared to the Facebook iOS users get. And that is pretty sad. I'm not a Facebook whore so I'm not "essentially complaining" but I guess I'm speaking for the masses?
So I was browsing [Samsung Apps] for fun and I realized there's a new application released! That's right. Facebook S! It has no underbar as Notifications though it can be found under "Inbox". But, it's all integrated within the application! No more mobile-site!
While that's a step-up from the Facebook for Android application, I'm keeping both for the heck of it.
What's your view?
tl;dr - There's a new Facebook application off [Samsung Apps], try it. Compare it with the Facebook application off the [Android Market] and tell me what you think.

OMG, nice... i try samsung one and it works like a charm... my new FB app.

I just want to visit my facebook account occasionally, I don't want a facebook ' account' on my phone, why do all the apps in the market set one up and try to sync things I don't want this...
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There's also a kart racing game available.

Facebook S!
Hey guys... I saw this when I flashed to JM7 but it's not avail on JPC... any chance we might get an apk uploaded... thought I'd pushed on to the external SD, but must have pushed it to the internal... and of course to get to JPC I reformatted that one! )
Thanks in advance!

Facebook S! Wont work on FroYo, i have tested it, FC's.
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Facebook S! Wont work on FroYo, i have tested it, FC's.
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That's bad news

ye I don't wanna sync anything but my mail.
the facebook samsung pushed out ain't bad.
yup there's a task manager off samsung too. lol.

I tried both and to be honest I think both suck. I just login through the mobile web. A lot faster!

I think Facebook S is totally futile piece of software. Doesn't bring anything really new and lacks essential functionalities. It's also slow, because it always seem to load stuff when one changes the tab.
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i've came to a conclusion that both suck in comparison to what the apple's appstore has.
well i hope facebook steps up. >.>
shall use the Facebook for Android for now. mobile site is way faster than all that loading ****.

Facebook_s sucks even more than the regular app.loading times are horrific.Plus it also looks a lot less crisp then the regular app.
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Doesn't have a widget either. While it's not amazingly functional I am a fan of having the normal facebook widget on my homescreen.

isn't the feeds widget the facebook widget for samsung?!

Facebook S is crap. It is extremely limited. All you can do is browse your wall and other people's walls. Things like Facebook Events and contact lists that are in the official app, are all missing.
I don't know why people have problems with the official Facebook app, I find it works awesome. Its basically identical to the iPhone one now.

Hydrostatic said:
I think Facebook S is totally futile piece of software. Doesn't bring anything really new and lacks essential functionalities. It's also slow, because it always seem to load stuff when one changes the tab.
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This is not true in Facebook S you can upload Video easily.. and you can view them very fast..the normal facebook app will not upload video's and its hard to view videos.. in the Facebook S you have a tab just for videos

Ditto with what one of the previous posters said...I stick with the mobile website.
The Android Facebook app doesn't look that good IMHO. The Samsung one is REALLY buggy and clunky. Searching for friends doesn't turn up results unless they are all shown in the list below...so you have to manually click show more or whatever to get all your friends to show, and then you can search for them. That's a bit inconvenient and senseless if you ask me. Also the inbox is messed up.
Both apps load really slow. The mobile website is still what I rely on. I just bookmark it to make it easier to get to.

Hi to all,
unfortunately i delete the facebook s app from my galaxy i9000 and now i can not find it anymore.
I also went in to samsung app, but......where it is?
Could you please post it here (or let me know where I can find it)?
I also didn't find it with samsung kies.
Best regards

I just stick with touch.facebook.com on my browser, find it much better than any of the apps.

When I first got my phone i used the facbook S and i thought there was something wrong with my phone as it took ages to upload and was generally slow in all area's.
Then tried official app and found it a world of difference - ok the mobile site is still quicker but for most thing the app is ok.

Froyo here(ish).. Facebook pls

So Froyo is upon us but what I want is for the Android Facebook app to get updated so it is a proper app, not just redirecting you to mobile Facebook online whenever you view notifications etc. Then I will not need to worry that I should have bought an iPhone 4 with brilliant facebook app.
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Have you tried the facebook app in the market?
You can put a Widget for the status updates, when you click on it, it will open the facebook app where you can do pretty much anything, from taking picture to checking video. What more do you want? (From 2.1 but froyo has the same app)

Its sad that the android versions of Facebook and Yahoo Messenger stink compared to the iphone versions where they are full featured and work like magic.
I really wish they would stop ignoring it and focus on the android versions.
Even the blackberry versions work better!

Well, since you are presumably Samsung Galaxy S user, why not trying Facebook S! from the Samsung appstore? I have been using it for 2 months or so and I consider it much better than the built-in Android application...And no - it does not redirect you to the browser.

It doesnt even have the "Like" button and is pretty bare bones. I would like it if they updated it with all of the facebook shenanigans

t1mman said:
Have you tried the facebook app in the market?
You can put a Widget for the status updates, when you click on it, it will open the facebook app where you can do pretty much anything, from taking picture to checking video. What more do you want? (From 2.1 but froyo has the same app)
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That is tha App I am talking about. Many of the links just redirect you to the mobile or touch facebook website in the phones browser. e.g. in the (Facebook) notifications. Other times you get directed to the full Facebook website e.g. when viewing profiles or photo galleries.
It really is only "half an app". I actually don't bother with it and just have a bookmark to the touch facebook website.
I find the Samsung Facebook App very slow and quite limited in functionality.
iPhon/iPod touch Facebook is pretty much perfect and complete. I'm sure the Android app will eventually be as good.

xavierzutafun said:
Well, since you are presumably Samsung Galaxy S user, why not trying Facebook S! from the Samsung appstore? I have been using it for 2 months or so and I consider it much better than the built-in Android application...And no - it does not redirect you to the browser.
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True, very true.
It's still a complete sack of buggy **** though

Facebook

#1 Any news on honeycomb version?
#2 anyone else having trouble getting it to sync? It wont even let me add the facebook account on the accounts page.

Facebook no longer syncs with Android. That's for Gingerbread, but I'll bet they implemented it in Honeycomb, too.
And as for a version for HC, I doubt they'll have one cooked up before spring considering how slow they are with the regular Android version.

You didn't block apps from your Facebook did you? I had a problem recently where I could set up the normal Facebook app, on my EVO, but facebook for sense kept failing. Turns out when I went nuts removing annoying apps and trying to lock down my facebooks security, I blocked future unofficial apps.

I can confirm the facebook contacts don't sync on honeycomb. Although Twitter contacts still do. Must be software thing and less a google thing. When you try to add the account to accounts & sync it just flashes and drops you back to accounts.

It actually has more to do with Google's rules for Android. Here's a better explanation of it.
Engadget
It's something Facebook will have to deal with if they ever want the feature to return.

Do they even have a iPad version of Facebook out?

Well Facebook is not happy with Google stop the sync.
Probably FB will demand it back before making the Android tablet version
One thing that I want for FB is MULTI USER client app!!!!!
Which I can choose account to use
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Do they even have a iPad version of Facebook out?
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gogol said:
Well Facebook is not happy with Google stop the sync.
Probably FB will demand it back before making the Android tablet version
One thing that I want for FB is MULTI USER client app!!!!!
Which I can choose account to use
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Friend Me works really well, it's made specifically for Honeycomb, and it's FREE. The ads are well done so it's not intrusive and for $3 using in app billing u can unlock the ad free version.
The only downside is as of yet they don't have any widgets
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.locomolabs.facebook&feature=search_result

Why would you awake a 6 month old thread?
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Why would you awake a 6 month old thread?
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Better than creating a new thread to discuss a topic that has already been introduced, don't you think?

The Worst Application Award!!!!!

Ladies and Gentlemen, thanks in most to you and the XDA Community ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28984095#post28984095 ) I PRESENT TO YOU...
THE WORST APPLICATION AWARD WINNER IS......
THE FACEBOOK APP!
Why you may ask when compared to some other poor apps? Well here is my reasoning and I would love the hear yours
The Facebook Application for Android has been around for a very very long time now, since at LEAST Android 2.0 and through all this time Facebook and Android have been advancing with more functions and features at a faster rate then we can keep up to. Facebook claims to have some of thee best programmers and coders to offer, yet they problem is instead of fixing the issues on their applications and website they look over these and add new features, and break or "rethink" old ones. There once was a time when Facebook chat was reliable, and when people could easily understand how things worked yet now? Facebook is slowly becoming a mess.
I don't mean to say I hate Facebook, because though it isn't the best (or better then Google+) it is still decent and mostly enjoyable on a computer. The phone app however? It has seriously pained me to use. Back when I didn't know about alternate apps for Facebook, I would often AVOID checking and updating my Facebook thinking "OH I SHOULD SHARE THAT PICTURE.... But wait that'll take forever.... nevermind".
Facebook should think more about this issue... and they should take all their employees and tell them "Work on the website ALONE" then Facebook should come over to XDA Developers, and hire some very talented, and smart app developers, who are UP TO DATE on Androids features, and make a application that you should expect from a multi-billion dollar company.
What do you guys think? Any bad stories from the app? Do you think it will ever get better??
(PS: I know worse apps exist in the market and online, but this is partly a joke, but most importantly is that Facebook is a massive social network that should have MUCH better an app)

The app sucks I agree
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Used to go on Facebook a lot on iOS. But then when I moved to android and saw that Facebook was a joke I pretty much stopped checking it.
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I use friend stream from sense... The Facebook app use 35mb of ram when used...

I use Flipboard instead.
(I seldom post on Facebook)

FACEBOOK SUCKS!!! It is one of the worst apps ever! with so much cash, fb is really lazy at coding apps, check out Google+, much better experience.

Yep! Facebook app totally sucks. I used friendcaster a lot, its good n very fast but now I left facebook permanently bcoz of awesome google+ app

The Google+ app just blows the Facebook one out of the water, shame people haven't learnt how good of a social network Google+ is. Facebook would end up like Myspace and Bebo if people weren't so scared of change.

I agree

They should just buy out Friendcaster and make it their offical app...

The only problem with 3rd party apps is you don't have access to friend's posts who have their privacy settings set up differently. They won't show up in your news feed. The mobile site OK, but still kinda sucks in terms of use. The reply box has become extremely buggy,never autocompletes words, capitalizes Is or makes contractions properly. It's a friggin joke, and I can only imagine how awful the app is by the responses given in this thread. I've heard the iOS one isn't too great, either. I think part of the problem is they are too focused on the desktop experience due to ads and a bunch of other stuff(half the time it doesn't load my feed properly on Chrome). I've started browsing G+ which seems to have improved greatly since I got the original invite. Sucks more of my friends aren't on it. Now I just use FB to coordinate events with people. haha.
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The Google+ app just blows the Facebook one out of the water, shame people haven't learnt how good of a social network Google+ is. Facebook would end up like Myspace and Bebo if people weren't so scared of change.
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They changed and many migrated to FB. It just seems whatever is trendy at the time is what people go for. A lot of people don't even know what G+ is, sadly. They're pushing a few commercials here and there and I know a TON of people have GMail accounts, but barely know how to navigate through the menus to find it, even though it's right there in the corner. Only time will tell, I suppose.

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I use Flipboard instead.
(I seldom post on Facebook)
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+1 Flipboard is great for Facebook use...

The app sucks I agree

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I though it sucked in ios until I got on android... can barely used the chat option. So terrible.

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I'm glad i found this thread..been suffering with the Facebook app for ages but couldn't find any good alternative. But Flipboard is awesome! Also using it for Instagram and some news sites i like..very nice UI on that app as well.
Uninstalling Facebook app!

Best alternative?
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Best alternative?
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friendcaster, it syncs all the profile pictures in the contacts as well

Southeast Asian (Brunei/Malaysia/Singapore) user discussion

For Southeast Asian users,
Which apps do u use on your device?

Pretty much the same as everyone else. But for local apps I use airAsia for mobile check in, maybank2u for paying bills, gsc to buy movie tickets..
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vash_h said:
Pretty much the same as everyone else. But for local apps I use airAsia for mobile check in, maybank2u for paying bills, gsc to buy movie tickets..
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How secured you think Maybank2u is?
I still got doubt.
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Arsaw said:
How secured you think Maybank2u is?
I still got doubt.
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Me too. Thats why I am still using browser to access maybank 2u.

What do u think of the Whatsapp application? Worth paying? or to get Wechat instead as a replacement? My Sarawak friend said it takes up too much data off his plan but im not sure (hes on N7000)
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sansserif said:
What do u think of the Whatsapp application? Worth paying? or to get Wechat instead as a replacement? My Sarawak friend said it takes up too much data off his plan but im not sure (hes on N7000)
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I have both Best of both world
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sansserif said:
What do u think of the Whatsapp application? Worth paying? or to get Wechat instead as a replacement? My Sarawak friend said it takes up too much data off his plan but im not sure (hes on N7000)
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I thought only iOS version of WhatsApp needs to be purchased? Spent 99cents on it when i was still on my iPhone, but download for Android was free the last I checked ..

My Essential apps list:
1. Quickpic (can send multiple pictures at a time)
2. Explorer (to unzip files)
3. Waze (just saved me 30mins in finding me a faster route home)
4. Dropbox (cloud server)
5. Catch (jot ideas fast)
6. Screen Filter (when in cinemas to reduce the brightness further)
7. Msecure (password storage)
8. GoSMS
9. Appy Geek (all gadget news)
10. XDA forum (mods & hacks, latest ROMs)
11. Flipboard (nicer to read than Twitter & other social media hub)
12. Twitter
13. Soundhound (to search music names)
14. Tubemate (a must to download YouTube videos & mp3 songs).
15. GSC Cinemas (to book movie tickets)
16. Marvel comics
17. Simple Calendar (simple agenda widget)
18. SMS Backup+ (back up all sms to gmail)
19. Pocket (to save all web pages for future reading)
20. Computer (looks
Exactly like a Window explorer. Looks cool, but don't use much... )
21. Evernote (notes storage)
22. IMDB (movies news)
23. Titanium Backup (need root to back up everything).
24. Hi-Q mp3 recorder (can change recording quality and size).
25. Juice defender plus (more battery).
26. Swift Flow Beta (better keyboard)
Willing Tan 陳威潾
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sansserif said:
What do u think of the Whatsapp application? Worth paying? or to get Wechat instead as a replacement? My Sarawak friend said it takes up too much data off his plan but im not sure (hes on N7000)
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I just pay 99cent.. good enough for a year service.... and their support team respond for every question quite fast..

I never paid a cent for whatsapp and it says service expiration: life time.
Previous it says 1 year with a date exactly 1 year from expiration. Now this is what it says.
Btw I don't really like wechat. It's nice and all but it doesn't let u know if your msg is delivered or not.. whether the other party read the msg or not.
But I do love naver line. Love those stickers.
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Arsaw said:
How secured you think Maybank2u is?
I still got doubt.
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Is very secure. My friends company developed that application. It's basically the mobile version of the Web. Accesses same security stuff. But u can only transfer funds to accounts u at as favorites in m2u website.
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My essential apps :
1. Whatsapp - Most of my friend use this app but there's a bunch of good messenger that I've been used before like Line Chat, Kakao Talk, Wechat
2. Facebook - Downloaded from Google Play Store.
3. Dolphin Browser - A good web browser (faster compare to Chrome) which you can change the setting to Desktop view which you can access a website in desktop format and there's a few another option like iPhone view etc.
4. Instagram - Upload photos and share it (Can connect to Facebook, Twitter, etc)
5. MX Player - Can play any format of video and stream video online.
6. FVD - Download video online from any website except Youtube.
7. Tubemate - Download video from Youtube.
8. One Click Clear - For system maintenance.
9. Androzip - To open ZIP/RAR file.
10. Zedge - Download ringtone, wallpaper, notification tone etc in one app.
11. Pixlr Express - Photo Editing. Decent effects.
12. Picsart - Photo editing. Offer collage.
13. MY Holidays - Follow up on public holidays in Malaysia. You can set it to view your state public holidays.
:good:

I think Whatsapp is more universal across Samsung n iPhone users

kellwx said:
I think Whatsapp is more universal across Samsung n iPhone users
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Whatsapp works in not just samsung but all Android, iphone, black Berry, Windows phone 7 and 8 and symbian.
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vash_h said:
Is very secure. My friends company developed that application. It's basically the mobile version of the Web. Accesses same security stuff. But u can only transfer funds to accounts u at as favorites in m2u website.
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I thought ..Note2 & 1 have security issued on it .. U still dare to use for bank ... I find that Android not like Windows .. we know what program running .. Android ..is look like Apps auto running .. sometime u never know. I find that ios also .. sometime it auto wifi ..even I turn "flight" mode.
Oh yes ..for Whatapps I think everyone have difference expiry date ..go to whatapps -> setting -> account -> payment info ..u will see your payment due date..

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I thought ..Note2 & 1 have security issued on it .. U still dare to use for bank ... I find that Android not like Windows .. we know what program running .. Android ..is look like Apps auto running .. sometime u never know. I find that ios also .. sometime it auto wifi ..even I turn "flight" mode.
Oh yes ..for Whatapps I think everyone have difference expiry date ..go to whatapps -> setting -> account -> payment info ..u will see your payment due date..
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Windows have always been have security issues since its ibm days and ur saying windows is good? Lol windows is the easiest platform to exploit compared to ios and android. Background running apps are easy to detect on android if only u care to find out. If u dont then i guess even using windows u wont care less. I have been using ios and android doing thousands of transactions wih no issues.
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I thought ..Note2 & 1 have security issued on it .. U still dare to use for bank ... I find that Android not like Windows .. we know what program running .. Android ..is look like to running .. sometime u never know. I find that ios also .. sometime it auto wifi ..even I turn "flight" mode.
Oh yes ..for Whatapps I think everyone have difference expiry date ..go to whatapps -> setting -> account -> payment info ..u will see your payment due date..
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Which security issue? The app is just a poor mobile web based which is using internal browser api, but still ssl though. I also have it installed on my smart tv 7 series
The reason android apps auto run because it's binded to events, unlike windows by registries services schedulers or startup folders...

Hey guys, I live in Thailand at the moment with a thai note 2. After being disappointed with the 412 update I switched back to 411. However I can no longer find the 412 update via ota because it says I'm on the latest fw. Have you guys found it in your countries ota? I think Samsung might have pulled it to fix all the errors.
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Windows have always been have security issues since its ibm days and ur saying windows is good? Lol windows is the easiest platform to exploit compared to ios and android. Background running apps are easy to detect on android if only u care to find out. If u dont then i guess even using windows u wont care less. I have been using ios and android doing thousands of transactions wih no issues.
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Oh.. maybe I'm not familiar in Android .. b'cos I find that some apps I have "kill" the service but after a while it "life" back (maybe got another way to stop forever)... not like windows ..I can remove the program registry then it would not start forever.
For the browser ...are our phone is using 64bit?? I heard 64bit is more secure then 32bit ... maybe I wrong too ...:laugh:

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Oh.. maybe I'm not familiar in Android .. b'cos I find that some apps I have "kill" the service but after a while it "life" back (maybe got another way to stop forever)... not like windows ..I can remove the program registry then it would not start forever.
For the browser ...are our phone is using 64bit?? I heard 64bit is more secure then 32bit ... maybe I wrong too ...:laugh:
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May i ask why are you killing apps/services?