{"id":5730,"date":"2013-05-03T11:30:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T01:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=5730"},"modified":"2013-05-01T20:33:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T10:33:34","slug":"facebook-beta-for-windows-phone-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/facebook-beta-for-windows-phone-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Beta for Windows Phone 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick update for those of you with Windows Phone 8 handsets.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has launched a beta version of the Facebook app for those who like to try out the latest and greatest and I have to say that I really like it. The interface does seem a bit similar to those found on iOS and Android but it is slick and more responsive that the original Windows Phone app.<\/p>\n<p>The good thing about Microsoft releasing a separate beta app is that you can have the beta plus the original version installed side-by-side if you can&#8217;t do without either or you don&#8217;t fancy wiping the original version.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, you won&#8217;t find the Facebook beta app by browsing the Windows Phone Store but you&#8217;ll need to use this <a title=\"Facebook Beta | Windows Phone Store\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsphone.com\/s?appid=93da5d29-daf0-4783-9ed5-a87b33247ec6\" target=\"_blank\">direct link<\/a> to get to it. There is no harm in trying it out and you can always can it if you don&#8217;t like it but I reckon you might be surprised.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, this app will only work on Windows Phone 8 so you&#8217;re out of luck if you&#8217;re on Windows Phone 7.8 or earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick update for those of you with Windows Phone 8 handsets. Microsoft has launched a beta version of the Facebook app for those who like to try out the latest and greatest and I have to say that I really like it. The interface does seem a bit similar to those found on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/facebook-beta-for-windows-phone-8\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,24,152,151,22,18,1895],"tags":[2240,2367],"class_list":["post-5730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communications","category-facebook","category-microsoft-operating-systems-technology","category-operating-systems","category-social-networking","category-technology","category-windows-phone-8","tag-facebook","tag-windows-phone-8","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Facebook-Logo.png?fit=311%2C311&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}