Facebook shows off new homepage for touchscreen phones

October 21, 2009 | Kim-Mai Cutler | Comments | |

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Facebook is testing a new mobile homepage designed for touchscreen phones. You can try it here at http://touch.facebook.com. After launching apps for both the iPhone and Google’s Android platform, Facebook still has to work with a number of other systems, including the Palm OS. Clearly, apps have a better overall experience. But this is a welcome upgrade from Facebook’s standard mobile homepage.

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Kim-Mai was born and raised a stone's throw from Apple headquarters in Cupertino by a devout Hewlett-Packard family. After attending UC Berkeley, Kim-Mai worked for Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires in New York, Los Angeles, London and Buenos Aires. Follow her on Twitter at @kimmaicutler, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.

  • what I don't understand is how they are going to work ads into their mobile site
  • Wow...that a great new looks. oh my old handy phone. i think you're enough for the moment :D
  • I've had this interface on the Palm Pre for about a month. It's better than before but it doesn't match the iPhone app.
  • and here I thought Facebook wasn't making any progress lol
  • Bernd
    Correction: There is already a Facebook app for Symbian touch devices...check out the Ovi Store..
  • Thanks, you're right. There's also an Ovi Lifecasting product as well that sends out status updates.
  • onlinemarketingassistant
    this is a real GOOD news specially for facebook addicts! LOL
  • JD
    Looks pretty neat. Yet another way to waste more time on Facebook!
  • Yup, This is for all touch screen phones not only for iPhone. This design is really awesome and fast in used.
  • mobilebeautytherapy
    Facebook on the iPhone is becoming a necessity these days-social media was already hugely popular-but it kind of took the socialising out of socialising-implementation into a mobile device takes it to another level. I couldn't survive without it and with my facebook page holding nearly all my computer literate clients-its a must for my mobile beauty therapy.

    And now it's been made even easier.