No date for Valentine’s Day? Well here’s something to do instead: Rovio’s Angry Birds game will be launched on Facebook on February 14th, letting you release some frustration by slamming cartoon birds into cartoony pig heads for free on the social network.
News of a dedicated “Facebook Phone” has been going around for a long time now, but a source has finally spilled some details about an actual device. Codenamed “Buffy” (after the TV show with Sarah Michelle Gellar… and that’s as far as we know about it), the device is going to be made by HTC, and will run on a customized version of Android.
They took their sweet time with it, but it’s finally out: the official Facebook app for the iPad is now available for free from the App Store, offering a number of new features that was missing from the earlier (read: lame) made-for-iPhone version of the app.
When they first revealed that the official Facebook app for iPad was in the “final stages of testing,” we thought that they were really close to making the app available. More than a month later, and we still have to deal with third-party iPad apps. But here’s what we didn’t know: apparently, the code for the iPad version was already sitting right under our noses, hidden within the latest update (3.4.4) of Facebook’s iPhone app. TechCrunch’s MG Siegler managed to crack the code, pull out the iPad app, install it, and run it. By the look of things, it already works very nicely on the iPad (“spectacular” even), so color us excited.
It’s been more than a year since the iPad was released, but during all this time, iPad owners have either had to deal with either the official Facebook app for the iPhone (that you had to stretch out—badly—to fill the iPad’s larger screen, install unofficial iPad-optimized apps like Friendly or MyPad, or just use the browser to go to the non-touch friendly website. We have no idea why an official Facebook app for the iPad is taking so long, but it looks like we won’t have to wait much longer.
