Facebook on Nokia N900

A good contact book, which is up to date and contain all the relevant points of contacts to any given person is vital for modern communication. Adding Facebook, FB chat and presence is one vital step!

Create an IM account that will allow you to do Fb Chat also on the handset.

On N900, go to settings where you have “VoIP and IM accounts”

Depending on what you have installed in terms of protocols, you either set up a Jabber account or you can directly select Facebook.

Add FB as Jabber account (fallback) http://thenokiablog.com/2010/02/10/how-to-add-facebook-chat-nokia-n900-out-of-the-box/

Add more protocols: http://thenokiablog.com/2010/02/05/conversations-nokia-n900-facebook-chat-aim-msn/ … After this, I believe that you will have Facebook as an option when selecting a protocol.

Regardless of which, you need the Facebook data which you get here: http://www.facebook.com/ajax/sitetour/chat.php?jabber_client=3

Next thing you want to do is adding all you Facebook contacts to your handset:

Manually adding them is naturally not feasible. So, for this, add the application Hermes. It does both Twitter and Facebook.

http://hermes.garage.maemo.org/

Merging contacts:

Now there is one drawback in all of this – you now have a lot of contacts, of which several are the same person, but you have them as separate entries for phone/sms and Facebook.

There is a solution:

Download “Merge your duplicate contacts” (very descriptive name 😉

http://www.nokian900applications.com/merge-your-duplicate-contacts-for-nokia-n900/

Furthermore,

I have installed “Facebook Widget and Photouploader”. I guess that it still needed to uploading pictures and as it provides the desktop widget…