There are very few things more annoying about using a smartphone than being right in the middle of a task – and somebody calls. The fact that they’ve called isn’t perhaps the most irritating thing, but because your entire display is interrupted by the call, you’re basically obligated to stop what you were doing and answer. If you’re looking for a more subtle, unobtrusive notification of an incoming call, a new app by the name of CallHeads may well have you covered.

Message Box, a tweak which allows iOS users to enjoy a full Chat Heads experience system-wide on iOS based on the Facebook app, has just been released, and we’ve got the details coming up right after the break!

The Facebook Home launcher may currently only be available to a select few Android handsets, but some of its features still made it out to other devices via the Facebook Messenger app, which was updated shortly thereafter. While many of you Facebook Messenger for Android users have spent the past week or two enjoying the new Chat Heads implementation, what you might not have stumbled across is the hidden support for those cute, innocuous, meme-like illustrations otherwise known as Stickers; but below, we’re going to show you how you can join in the fun.

Facebook home is certainly the talk of the town right now, both thanks to the recently released HTC First handset and the equally new Facebook Home software release for Android. As is always the case with such highly interesting and well reported technology news, a comic strip has cropped up based on it.

Facebook’s been very busy of late. It launched a Facebook-centric phone with the help of HTC, and it has pushed out all manner of updates for the Android and iOS apps, partly in order to add support for Facebook Home. There’s Chat Heads too, along with the less well publicized addition of the new Facebook Stickers.

Facebook’s Home launcher may only have catered to a small number of Android devices, but by ensuring Chat Heads, one of the marquee features of Home, made its way to the rest of the Android community via the Messenger app, the Menlo Park company made sure the remaining Droidsters got at least a taste of the new features. In what was seen as something of a surprise, this was then followed by an update to Facebook for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, which saw a rather limited Chat Heads effort manifest itself on Apple’s iOS. As well as not being able to work across the system (a situation currently being looked into by one jailbreak developer), the limit to the number of Chat Heads at any one point renders the feature pretty restricted; but thanks once again to the great work of the jailbreak scene, you can now enjoy more of those little bubble Chat Heads at any one time.

The biggest feature of Facebook 6.0 for iOS was without a doubt, Chat Heads. But the problem was, Chat Heads were strictly limited to be used inside the app itself and were a no-go on the home screen, until now.

Here’s a complete step-by-step guide on how to enable Chat Heads and Stickers for your account on Facebook 6.0 app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The new features aren’t rolled out for every account yet even if you have the latest 6.0 version of the app installed, the following guide will help you force-enable it on your device.

Facebook has just released their updated app for iPhone and iPad, taking it to version 6.0. As promised, this version brings to the table Chat Heads, new iPad UI, stickers, revamped News Feed and more. We go hands-on with the app, and you can check it out right after the jump.