Facebook 3.0 for iPhone Released

The highly anticipated Facebook 3.0 app has been approved and released for free in the Apple App store. Now the client is almost on par with its Web-based app on the desktop side.

I thought the update is automatically pushed, but it did not happen until I went to the app store and download it. It when on top of the previous version without problem.

New features

• 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

[Source Facebook]