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Student discovers hole in iPhone App, which will look tablet version shows

It 's still no date for the start of revealing very overdue iPad Facebook app, but Canadian engineering student Marvin Bernal discovered a hole in the latest update of the Facebook iPhone app, what will the iPad version.

Apparently fixes some minor bugs Version 3.4.4 fixes several issues that caused crashes, restored the send button for comments, chat and news, and friends-lists to filter the news feed. But, like Bernal discovered, "Change UIDeviceFamily 2 for iPhone on the Facebook app, you get an iPad version!".

TechCrunch's MG Siegler had an intensive fiddle and pasted two dozen screen shots showing everything you might expect from a comprehensive Facebook iPad app. And to be fair, probably everything you could have expected from a Facebook app months ago. 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.

You can be sure that this will start the next slate of Mark Zuckerberg at the Skype press conference announced. The question now is how long it will take.

• In the meantime, some photos have leaked Facebook 's, new California headquarters on TechCrunch. Rather scary, these were taken at night and feel more clinical when you re-used Sun Microsystems door can watch on a meeting room ...