Facebook unveiled another update to their iPhone app on Monday, still ignoring the public cries for an iPad-native version but fulfilling at least one wish that many users have had -- the ability to rub out friends while on the go.

Facebook has updated their iPhone app to version 3.4, adding a handful of modest improvements including one that’s likely to be very welcome -- the ability to “unfriend” one of your friends with a couple of taps.

First up, the Places feature in the Facebook app has added a map view. Now, instead of simply seeing a list of where your friends are, you can actually see their location, even from across the country. Version 3.4 also adds the ability to check in to Facebook Events that you happen to be attending.

Perhaps the most welcome new feature of Facebook 3.4 is the ability to unfriend someone right from your iPhone. We don’t know about you, but this feature would have come in handy in the past to purge a rogue friend or two, so we applaud Facebook for adding such a feature. (Now can we have an “unlike” button?)

Last but not least, the Facebook app gets an “improved News Feed” as well as an “improved notifications UI,” but one major thing on everyone’s wish list remains MIA yet again -- either a native Facebook app for the iPad, or better yet a universal upgrade so the app is optimized for both the iPhone/iPod touch as well as the iPad. Sigh… the waiting is the hardest part.

For now, you can grab Facebook 3.4 in the App Store; the 4.9MB download requires iOS 3.0 or later.

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