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When Facebook entered the murky waters of the instant messaging business with Facebook Messenger, many eyebrows were raised by its US-only launch. With over 700 million users worldwide, that left a fair chunk unable to take advantage of Facebook’s latest venture.

As of now, that’s an issue that’s on its way to being addressed, with Facebook Messenger now being made available in the U.K. App Store…

Priced at the same low, low price of free, Facebook’s U.K. app is identical to its US brother; it offers a way of accessing and sending Facebook Messages without venturing into the official Facebook app. If you’re the kind of person that loses hours on Facebook, then that’s a winner right there.

There’s been no official word why the app was US-only in the first place, or why the app isn’t available worldwide yet, but we suspect it’s all a case of managing the load on Facebook’s systems, and that Facebook users worldwide will eventually be able to get in on the action.

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Facebook has announced its Messenger service which is available for both iPhone and Android devices. It offers instant messaging among your Facebook friends directly on your mobile.

So what makes it different from the Messaging via native Facebook app? It promises faster access with supposedly instant delivery and response. Basically taking on the likes of Whatsapp and Kik. The key differenciator we can see is that your conversations are both available on both web and app. This means no messages to lose in case of hard resets or when switching devices.

In addition, you can do group conversations, enable locations and attach photos. The Messenger app is now available and you can get it by searching for “Facebook Messenger”.

iPhone users can get it at iTunes while Android fan can download it from the Android Market.

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The Facebook app for iOS just got an update.

As usual, this update contains a bunch of bug fixes that caused the app to crash. Additionally, this update restored the Send button for comments, chat, and messages. It also restored the friend lists to the News Feed filter…

If you want to get this update, fire up the App Store app on your iPhone and check for updates. The update can be obtained for free via the App Store.

Facebook sent out media invites for an announcement that the social networking site will be making this week.

The invite mentioned a “mobile event” and immediately the web’s a buzz with notions that Facebook will be announcing a Facebook phone but that rumour has been strongly denied by Facebook.

So if it is not a phone, what will Facebook launch this coming November 3? No one can tell for certain but what we can expect is that it will be something big. Big in this case could mean either a hardware or platform-related announcement or it could simply mean an new version of its official app for iPhone and Android.

So, something is going to drop on November 3, 2010. We will keep you posted.

The Facebook App for Android has finally received a new update. The previous one was seriously in dire need of a revamp and lags poorly behind the iPhone version.

With the latest version, you can play videos, and photos/videos appear as a scrollable reel at the bottom. Viewing notifications is easier by dragging up the Notification bar below. Events is now included but Facebook Chat is still missing.

Overall it fixes a lot of kinks and the app is much more refined than ever before. To update, just head to the market to download the latest version.