Facebook Redesigns Mobile Touch Site
As iPhone and Android users, it's easy to forget that Facebook hasn't been fully optimized for all touchscreen phones. Many of us sit here from the comfort of our sleek mobile applications, never knowing the drudgery that Palm owners have to face as they type in URLs to open their favorite services. Well Palm owners, you're in luck. As of today, Facebook has redesigned its mobile site for touch devices (x.facebook.com and iphone.facebook.com) and launched a new domain name at touch.facebook.com.
According to AllFacebook, the company is looking to offer a consistent user experience across all devices, regardless of how Facebook is accessed. While this is a stopgap measure until Facebook applications are built for emerging touchscreen phones, the new site is a much better interface than the standard mobile iteration. In the past, mobile site users tolerated one long stream of notifications, messages, friend requests and invitations. For a power Facebook user, the single stream display was easily overwhelming. By improving upon the mobile experience, the company is removing the barrier to photo uploads, notes and status messages for these users.
In January, 20 million people were accessing Facebook on their mobile phones. By September, that number had more than tripled to a whopping 65 million mobile users. As the company continues to upgrade the mobile user experience, the rate of content generation appears poised for unlimited growth. To test the redesigned mobile site visit touch.facebook.com.
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Non-touch screen devices can use the touch version also. And it's better than mobile version.
Not bad but they should leave the avatars off. Makes the text too small. The standard mobile site is much more readable on my phone and I use Opera Mobile it's touch capable anyway.
Not bad at all. This one is really clean and nicely design. It seems that it gonna be fast. Will surely check it soon.
Its nice. I've been playing around with it on my Nokia E71 (yeah I know its not a touch screen) and it works really nicely as my standard mobile version of facebook
touch site doesnt load on my lg vu
Touch site won't load on my LG Xenon (AT&T).
THe mobile site was bad. But the touch site is abysmal, on the android. I have yet to get it to work correctly. I always reverted to the full site anyway,cos the cheap cut down mobile sites don't have all the functionality that I want and the information contained on them is cached and out of date, like days old even.
Very good article mate. One that is very interesting to me as I had a book for Facebook Statuses published this year entitled 'is: The Phenomenon of the Facebook Status' (www.theisbook.com). I wrote this book whilst traveling around the globe and I found Facebook Statuses to be very useful to tell what people what people at home were up to at a glance.
Something that you and some of your readers may be very interested in is the Facebook Status Generator to help on days when the creative pool is not so deep, so have a look and let me know what you think:
http://www.theisbook.com/status-generator/
Looking forward to reading more of your stuff mate.
the touch site wont work on my Samsung Ultra Touch the 3bars come up that show its loading but it jus stays like that for ages doesnt load anything !! anybody know why ?
Has anyone else noticed the touch site being anywhere from a couple days to a couple weeks behind on new posts/content? Right now, the latest update I'm seeing is from three days ago. If I refresh, it changes to like a week ago. Could this be because of everything going to the new "Live Feed" that isn't present on the touch site?
touch.facebook.com does not work on my LG Chocolate Touch!! So disappointed...I can't see thumbnails at all on mobile site.
I can't even login.
When I use my password and e-mail, I can login on the m.facebook.com, but when I use them on touch.facebook.com, it sais that it's an invalid e-mail-password combination, but it's all correct!!