Facebook is yet to release it's official iPad app, but the tech news website TechCrunch has found a loophole in the latest Facebook iPhone app that reveals what it will look like. TechCrunch columnist MG Siegler wrote: "Hidden in the code of Facebook’s iPhone app is the code for something else. Something everyone has been waiting over a year for. The iPad app." Siegler went on to reveal some of the details of the app, stating: "In particular, the navigation system is great. Unlike the iPhone app…the Facebook iPad app uses a left-side menu system that can be accessed by the touch of a button or the flick of the iPad screen...When you flip the iPad horizontally, the list of your online friends appears and you can chat with them as you do other things on Facebook. The photo-viewer aspect looks great — similar to the iPad’s own native Photos app. Places exists with a nice big map to show you all your friends around you."
Jemima Kiss from the Guardian's PDA blog was so impressed with the app that she wondered what might be holding it back from release: "With the app this finished, you have to wonder what finishing touches are worth holding back for. Or, what kind of opportunity Facebook is looking for to time this launch." It is thought that Mark Zuckerberg will announce the app during the forthcoming Skpe press conference.
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