Yup, you heard me right folks, craptastic!  I have been waiting for Facebook to come out with an app to replace the horrible mobile web interface for the Palm Pre ever since I got the phone in June.  Over the weekend, they finally released it.  so, I eagerly downloaded the app and loaded it up on my Palm Pre…a decision I immediately regretted.

The first thing I noticed was the extreme lack of speed.  Hit update and get ready to wait.  It took at least five seconds to update the display.  But I could live with that if the app did anything worthwhile.  The Facebook app for Palm displays your Facebook newsfeed…and that is about all it does.  While you can update your status, or leave a comment, there is no way to filter your feed, and no way to access any of Facebook’s more advanced features.  Additionally, the entries in your newsfeed are not sized appropriately for the screen, meaning you can generally view two or three entries on the screen at a time.

Compare this with the robust app Facebook published for the iPhone/iPod Touch, and the disappointment simply mounts for Pre users.  One can only hope that this was intended to be an early test or beta, geared toward testing the functionality, and that more features will be coming soon.  Otherwise, we will continue to term this one craptastic, and hope for more entries from third party developers.

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