Facebook launches touch-friendly website for smartphones

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Facebook launches touch-friendly website for smartphones

October 23, 2009 | by Andrew Kameka

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Facebook has launched a new mobile website to improve appearance and navigation for touchscreen devices, including Android. If you’re someone displeased by the old m.facebook.com website and still not a fan of Facebook apps – official or otherwise – you may want to check out this new touch-friendly version. In fact, my G1 automatically redirects to the touch.facebook.com when I try to access the old mobile site.

Users who visit touch.facebook.com from their Android phone will find a Facebook browsing experience much better than the old mobile site. The design looks better and the images, links, and text are larger in order to function better with press-and-go browsing. There are tabs for Home (friend feed), Profile, Friends (Friends, Phonebook, Pages), and Inbox.

Until Facebook gets serious about making a full, better Android app, this may be something viable to some users.

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11 Comments

emma says:

October 23, 2009 at 7:08 pm

I have a samsung f480 and im not sure if its compatible with my phone cause it freezes and wont go any further then the loading status part. Is it supposed to work on my phone?
Dakota says:

November 8, 2009 at 10:44 am

it doesnt do anything on my zune hd. no matter what i touch, it doesnt do anything. u ill just use the facebook app for zune then
guest says:

November 19, 2009 at 6:57 am

Doesn't have ability to see adding friends activity on home page
Nora says:

November 30, 2009 at 6:59 am

Super templates. I seriously love them a lot. Thanks.
Salah says:

January 7, 2010 at 2:07 pm

touch.facebook.com doesn't work well in Nokia N900
wesley says:

January 29, 2010 at 12:25 pm

It works great on the motorola droid!
Niko says:

February 7, 2010 at 7:17 am

I don't like it… well, it doesn't have a remove [delete] link =/ I have a htc diamond and still prefer the moblie version… so, until they get the remove button, i'll stick with the mobile version
- sammi says:
  
  September 21, 2012 at 7:43 am
  
  Deleting a status took me a loong time to figure out. But if you hover over the status and swipe your thumb accross the screen horizontally, a little x will appear on the status, and then you just click that. Altho it does take multiple trys not to scroll slightly instead by mistake
Jolie says:

March 4, 2010 at 3:25 pm

I dont like the Touch site… Status are not updated properly… hit refresh and I see status from days earlier at the top of the page… How do I stop my Droid phone from Automatically going to the touch site… I like the Mobile site MUCH Better!!!!
Matt says:

July 6, 2010 at 4:10 am

Works well on my iPod touch.
sammi says:

September 21, 2012 at 7:47 am

My only problem with this new site, is that it glitches and won’t let me in! I click on the site and 9/10 times recently it has just come up with “web page not available”…. even if i reset my phone it still won’t work. Is anyone else having a problem? Or knows how to fix it????