What Ever Happened To Facebook 1.5…

facebookappforblackberry.gifEarlier this week Mark Zuckerberg mentioned that Facebook has 25 million people using their mobile site every month. They have about 4 million daily customers. Pretty crazy.

The interesting part is that the BlackBerry and iPhone Facebook applications are about neck in neck with daily active users. The BlackBerry application has 1.56 million daily active users compared to the iPhone’s 1.64 million. Not bad for a device that just recently started focusing on the general consumer. On the other hand the iPhone does not have as large of a user base…

It makes me wonder why the BlackBerry Facebook application has not seen a significant update since it launched. It is one of the most popular Facebook applications yet it will still not let you do something as simple as view your wall or view photo albums without going to the mobile site. The only real updates we have seen is for newer devices and removing the “is” from status updates.

It was a step backwards when RIM released Facebook 1.3 and then pulled it. On the other hand Facebook 1.5 that Kevin leaked was supposed to launch in early January.

So I have to ask. What is RIM and Facebook waiting for? They wet our appetite with the current application but it could do so much more…

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