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hey guys its brand a minimun from pocket now and in this video I'm going to show you three different ways to access Facebook from your windows mobile device so the first method is what I call the light method so that means it doesn't use that much data if you're over a you know pay-as-you-go data connection or you're using a slow edge connection or something like that and it also doesn't have as many images as the other ones that I'm going to show you so we're gonna go to pocket internet explorer here and go to m dot facebook.com okay and here we are and what you get is that the feed the news feed that shows you what your friends are doing right now you get some pictures you can go over to friends up here and look through all of your friends you can go into their profiles you can write things on their wall it's a very basic experience it's not a very rich experience like you would find on desktop Facebook or through a Facebook application okay now for the second method we're going to need opera mobile 9.5 because that is eject support we're actually going to be using the iPhones Facebook website to do this so here we are and I'm going to go to iPhone facebook.com and here it is already now you're gonna see it come up and it's gonna look kind of strange but here's a little trick and this applies to the touch pro or touch Dimond or touch HD double tap on the page to zoom out to have it perfectly formatted to the screen and now it's basically like using Facebook on an iPhone so everything is formatted just right if you tap on certain tabs it loads super fast because it's ajax-based if you want to look at somebody's profile you just go to you know you just tap on their name it goes over and we will get their profile we can write on their wall over here and it loads very fast and then we can go to photos also and browse through photos as if it were a standalone Facebook application not quite as good but but pretty good actually so that is Facebook using the iPhone version on in Opera Mobile 9.5 and the final way to access Facebook with Windows Mobile is through the xperia x1 panel and obviously this only works if you have an experienced one so I'm going the panel button down here and it's gonna zoom out and show me the panels and I'm gonna go to the Facebook application now we've shown this to you before but the Facebook application or the panel I should say has been updated to better work with the xperia x1 so it's a lot faster now so right now it is downloading the status of a lot of my friends I can log in like like so and this is a really interesting so I appear in the center there and soon I will see all my friends fly and who have recently updated their status and you can have this update automatically or you can manually update it if you're trying to save on data connection and it's happening a little slow right now but once things are loaded things are much faster and in a second they're all just gonna fly in and here they come so what I can do from here is I can tap on any one of these circles that represent a friend and I can read their status up here and I can just tap along and I see different people's status if I click on the center it's asking what am i doing right now but that's not just the application what we can do is we can click over to the actual main application and the home tab will show us our newsfeed and it is very flicked scroll friendly very finger friendly it's just like the iPhone application but I think it's actually better we can go over to the friends tab and it loads the friends okay and here we are all the friends are loaded and you can flick through them very easily see them alphabetically like a rolodex and I'm going to tap on somebody's profile and cover it up for security and I'm going to show you how it looks when you view photos of this person so you can poke them you can call them right from your phone and here's the Photos tab coming up now and you get all the albums so I'm gonna go to this one and they're coming up now so I'm just going to tap on one picture and it's going to bring it up to a larger screen and we can tap to the right and to the left to get a bigger picture and we can flip it to landscape of course to see the picture and it's full landscape glory and tap over like so so that is the Facebook application of the Facebook panel on the xperia x1 so there it is three different ways to get to Facebook on Windows Mobile you have the light version via Pocket Internet Explorer the more featured version via upper mobile 9.5 and of course the xperia x1 panel that you can only get right now in the xperia x1 there are a lot of other Facebook applications that are in the works out there some of them aren't really ready for primetime but as soon as there's something good out there we'll post another video about it so that you can stay connected by using Facebook on your Windows mobile device that's it for now