Facebook for Android or Facebook for HTC sense. Opinions.

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THe HTC desire being my first HTC phone I had never used the sense UI or any of its features previously, so had only had experience with the official facebook for android app from the Market.

Ive just set up facebook for htc sense with the friend stream etc and I'm rather impressed by it. Just wondered what your thoughts are on both these apps? here are mine.

Facebook for Android:

Pros

Has the chat function
Official app from facebook so gets updated (eventually) with new features, although still way behind the iphone app apparently.

Cons

Doesnt allow tagging of photos
Doesnt allow you to remove/delete a post/comment or that you have made or un-like something.

Facebook for HTC Sense

Pros
Allows tagging of photos
Allows multiple upload of photos to albums etc..
Integrates extreemely well with the rest of HTC sense UI, and the phone features such as the people app, gallery etc..

Cons
(most of these are things that I am not 100% sure on, so they are more like a question than a statement)

Not sure if the app gets updated when new features come out on facebook, or being as the app is shipped with the phone is it pretty much that what you get now is what it will always be, and no changes, or do HTC release updates for the sense features?
I dont think the check in feature is available with this?
I also dont think this app allowed you to delete a comment/post, althought I havent tried it yet, if it is possible, how is it done? Same with un-like...


What are you guys thoughts on both of these apps? Which do you prefer out of the 2?

I've been facing this same issue for past 24 hours. I needed batch upload for photos. I assumed, oficial fb app should be able to do that. Well, horse hockey. It's not even able to move photos from album to album or delete album. Before I discovered that Fb for sense is able to do that, I uploaded it via email. All in all, fb app from fb lackes many features, some even included in web version for phones (touch).

well you can always choose between the two, you dint have to just use one

persinally i think sense is amazing! (wish i had it on my sgs2)

the android fb is mediocore, so i use it mainly fir chat.

so i use the facebook mobile site mainly! it has the most info on news feed etc.

I personally still use the m.facebook.com website for facebook interaction on the phone. I found the facebook application a little too limited and clunky.

Although didn't know that it could enable FB chat, until I read the posts above...so thanks.

This way I don't get constant Facebook notifications, but get the ones that I have choosen to get through my FB settings as alerts through new emails. I use both Yahoo and Google mail applications.


I have still enabled Facebook for Sense, so that I still get the status updates, birthdays etc which then add value to my users from Google contacts...

take a look at FriendCaster