[BETA] Facebook for Blackberry 3.1 Comes with Interesting Features !

Facebook for Blackberry v3.1.0.9

Welcome to the Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones 3.1 Beta Program!

For those who are new, we are excited to have you on board, for those returning testers, welcome back, we look forward to hearing your thoughts and comments on this application upgrade!

What’s New?

New features of Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones 3.1 include:

Group Support
Liking Comments
Child Protection Support

Here’s a look at the new product features in Facebook for BlackBerry:

Liking Comments

You spoke and we listened! A very popular feature request is now available in Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones 3.1 as you can now like/unlike comments from within the comment screen. The new version of Facebook for BlackBerry also gives you the ability to see the Facebook users who have liked a post.

Feature Breakdown:

Ability to like/unlike each comment from within the comment screen
If a user likes/unlikes a comment, an outgoing notification is populated in their notification list
News Feed like rendering
If someone has liked my comment, the current user will be notified through pre-fetching or background polling.
The likes list allows users to see the Facebook users who have liked a post
Split of the single comments and likes field in details screen, to separate comments and likes fields. Comment count is not focusable in details screen.
Ability to open likes list screen from posts, photo posts, and comments by clicking on likes field
Up to 25 likes are retrieved
Ability to click on a user in a likes list screen and view the user’s profile
Ability to view menu options of each user in likes list
Removal of detailed like names from details screen

Feature Limitations:

Push notification are not supported if someone has liked my comment
Only up to first 25 Likes are populated in Likes list screen; no support for Automore/Pagination
Cannot retrieve next pages of likes beyond the (up to) 25 initial
‘Page’ objects that like have profile pics exceed their expected dimensions
The number of likes listed in the likes list screen may not be the same as the count displayed on the post details or newsfeed

Group Support

The new Facebook for BlackBerry also allows you to view and interact with Facebook Groups. Users can now view their Groups from within the application as well as write, comment and like posts on the Group Wall.

Feature Breakdown:

Opening a group notification will open the group screen
Group screen will display the group name, privacy, wall, and description.
Users’ can write on the group wall, comment, and like group posts.
Group List Screen: From the navigation grid, the Group List screen is opened when a user clicks on the Groups icon. The Group List screen will contain a list of groups the user is a member of, according the bookmark order specified by Facebook. Each group will contain a profile photo and the group name.
Group Screen: From the Group List screen, or from a Group notification, a user can open the Group screen. The Group screen will show the group profile photo, group name, and privacy settings. A user can see the group wall, and post text messages to the wall. A user can see the group description, and also open the Group Members screen.
Group Members Screen: From the Group screen, a user can open the Group Members screen. The Group Members screen will show a list of members of the group in alphabetical order

Feature Limitations:

Group icon may not match with the icon displayed on the Facebook website
Users cannot upload photos or check-in to a group
Posts related to group activity (e.g. people joining a group, or changing the description of the group) will not be displayed on the group wall
Posts related to photo activity within the group will not be displayed
No caching of the group list. As a result, each time the screen is opened, the list will need to be retrieved from the network.

And the bugs that fixed in this version :

Status Cleared notification doesn’t make sense
Update help URLs for Facebook 3.1
Got a state that could not exit Facebook setup wizard if Facebook opened from other access points
No photo on post
Facebook does not update while on Wi-Fi. Mobile Wi-Fi does work however.
App takes very long time to refresh comments.
Clicking “resend” on a status update doesn’t seem to work
Focus is lost after scrolling thru a very long post.
Likes count incorrect in Likes list if launched from stagnant comment screen
Doesn’t work on Wi-Fi only connection
Send icon is missing in command screen
User is not able to scroll to Facebook title bar to open navigation screen on the new chat conversation screen if cursor is not at the beginning of text box
Comments for Notes are limited to 1000 characters while on the web the limit is 8000
Event Created By lists incorrect name
BBM Text for check in is not localization friendly and might cause issues in other languages
Focus order on comment page
Focus jumps to the top of the notifications list after marking an unopened notification as opened