Facebook has been on the iPhone for a long time now, with the free Facebook app giving you quick and easy access to your Facebook status updates, friends, messages and more. Masterminded by famous developer Joe Hewitt the Facebook iPhone app the updates 3.0 version is now out which utilities the 3.0 OS on the iPhone to add a ton of new functionality. The visual interface of the app had improved somewhat and a bunch of new features have been added. Here is what is included in the new 3.0 version of the Facebook app for iPhone.

The 3.0 Facebook app has a simple icon based homepage with a 3×3 grid of 9 icons. These icons are: News Feed, Profile, Friends, Inbox, Chat, Requests, Events, Photos, and Notes. For convenience, tapping the grid like icon in the top left always takes you back to this screen. There is also a blank second page where you can customize shortcut icons linked to profiles of your favorite Facebook friends. “Who’s on your fave 9?”

What’s New in Facebook 3.0 for iPhone:
- Landscape Mode
- See your upcoming Events and RSVP
- See your friends’ birthdays
- See Pages and post updates and photos to Pages you administer
- Write Notes and read your friends’ Notes
- Upload videos from an iPhone 3GS
- Upload photos to any album
- Complete photo management (create albums, delete albums, delete photos, delete photo tags)
- Change your Profile Picture
- Zoom into photos
- Like posts and photos
- See the same News Feed as the Facebook website
- Visit links in a built-in web browser
- See all of your friends’ friends and Pages
- See mutual friends
- Easily search for people and Pages
- Make friend requests
- Become a fan of Pages
- Quickly call or text your friends
- Create shortcuts to your favorite friends and Pages
- Friends sorted by first or last name according to your settings
- Chat friends sorted alphabetically

The one feature everyone is asking for, Push Notifications, is in development but it won’t make it into 3.0. You can expect it in a 3.1 update later this summer.

Here is a video demo of the Facebook 3.0 app on the iPhone

This 3rd Party App is available at the Apple iTunes AppStore. Browse the full list of all AppStore apps filed under the AppStore category.