While the Facebook for iPhone app is pretty well-designed, it did have a few very pesky flaws up until its most recent update: It didn't allow you to unfriend people, check into events, or view your friends on a map.
But that's all better now.
According to TechCrunch, the latest Facebook for iPhone app update — version 3.4 — takes care of most woes:
These include the ability to view your friends on a map from the Places area (and it uses Google Maps, not Bing Maps), an “improved” News Feed, an “improved” notifications UI, and the ability to unfriend someone from your phone, finally.
But again, the big thing is the Facebook Event check-ins. Previously, you could only check-in via Facebook Places. That meant checking-in to various locations around cities just like you do on Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and others. But now that you can check-in to events themselves, it opens a range of possibilities. You could run contests at events through this, for example.
Based on a brief trial run, the updated app works as advertised and even feels slightly speedier than before — though that could just be my imagination.
The app is still free and available in the App Store — unlike an official Facebook for iPad app. (How about getting on that, Zuckerberg?)
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Rosa Golijan writes about tech here and there. She's a bit obsessed with Twitter, loves to be liked on Facebook, and needs to be careful about using that "unfriend" button.