Facebook on BlackBerry made easy

BlackBerry users who already have a hard enough time trying to live without their device have just been given yet another reason not to give up their addiction – it has received Facebook for BlackBerry, a new software that brings fast, streamlined and optimized mobile access to the extremely popular Facebook social utility via any compatible BlackBerry smartphone by leveraging on the push-based system architecture and Facebook Platform. T-Mobile USA has the honor of being the first mobile operator to provide the software application to subscribers, and this software will be preloaded onto all T-Mobile BlackBerry smartphones at no cost. Several application features are available after the jump.

• Receive notifications and messages automatically – Leveraging the BlackBerry platform’s push-based architecture, notifications and messages are automatically sent to the user; the user can also set a unique alert (vibration and/or ringtone) for Facebook related content
• Quickly access essential features – Convenient onscreen icons let users quickly change their Status, upload a photo, add a friend, poke someone, write on a Wall, or send a message. Users can also quickly scroll through messages and notifications as they do with email messages
• Invite friends to join Facebook and accept new friend requests
• Quickly snap and post pictures along with a caption and tags – The photo upload feature is also integrated with the BlackBerry smartphone camera and photo management applications on the smartphone
• View the Status of friends
• Read, compose and reply to messages even while offline – If the user is out of wireless coverage, messages are queued until the user returns to an area of coverage