RIM's launched the latest edition, version 1.5, of its Facebook application for BlackBerry smartphones. Popular app better integrates Facebook and BlackBerry functionality and supports more languages with upgrade.
With the upgrade the application now allows users to access and manage their Facebook contacts list and integrate it with their BlackBerry address book. In addition, callers from users' Facebook address books now appear with their profile picture as the caller ID and birthdays and events are integrated automatically into their BlackBerry calendars.
Also, Facebook conversations now appear as an IM thread in the application and in the BlackBerry message list. Users can even search Facebook contacts and information using the BlackBerry's onboard search function.
Facebook for BlackBerry now supports French, Italian German Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Czech, Traditional/Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean as well.
To download the update visit mobile.blackberry.com from your BlackBerry Browser or www.blackberry.com/go/facebook from your desktop. You can also get it through the BlackBerry App World.