[i][/i] Facebook fueled fresh talk
Friday about its own mobile phone after the leading
social network scheduled a press announcement for next
week.
Shortly after the Facebook invitation went out for the
April 4 event, the technology news site TechCrunch
reported the announcement would be a modified
version of the Google Android operating system with
“deep native Facebook functionality.”
Another report on “9 to 5 Google” said Facebook
designing the software for the new smartphone, which
would be made by Taiwan’s HTC.
Facebook’s invitation said only “Come See Our New
Home On Android.”
The reports, if accurate, could explain the long
speculation about a “Facebook phone” to help the social
network better monetize its mobile platform by
featuring Facebook prominently on the phone.
Facebook has long held firm it has no intention of
building its own smartphone, saying instead it would
rather weave access to the social network into software
running the gamut of handsets.
News of the April 4 event at social network’s main
campus in the Silicon Valley city of Menlo Park came as
the research firm IDC released a Facebook-backed study
showing that smartphones have become people’s close
friends in the US.
US smartphone owners tend to be connected from the
instant they rise until they fall sleep and revel in every
minute of it, according to the study.
A weeklong IDC survey of more than 7,000 people
ranging in age from 18 to 44 years old with iPhones or
Android-powered smartphones showed that four out of
five check their handsets within 15 minutes of waking.
The top three applications used were for messaging;
Web browsing, and Facebook, in that order, according to
IDC.
“People have a universal need to connect with others,
especially those they care deeply about,” IDC
researchers said.
“This coupled with mass market adoption of
smartphones means that social engagement via phones
has become mainstream.”
At a TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco in
September, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg said
the social network giant is focused on mobile devices.
“It is really clear from the stats and my own personal
intuition that a lot of energy in the ecosystem is going to
mobile, not desktop (computers),” Zuckerberg said
during an on-stage interview.
“That is the future,” he continued. “We are going to be
doing killer stuff there.”
Facebook has made a priority of following its more than
one billion members onto smartphones and tablet
computers, tailoring services and money-making ads for
mobile devices.
“Now, we are a mobile company,” Zuckerberg said at the
conference.
Zuckerberg rejected suggestions that Facebook would
make its own smartphone, adamant that the company
had no intention of stepping into the fiercely
competitive handset hardware arena.
“Apple, Google, everyone builds phones — we are going
in the opposite direction,” Zuckerberg said at the time.
“We want to build a system deeply integrated in every
device people want to use.”

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Seun be Spectator .

hTc all the way...
Wait oooo..what happened to da Fb button hTc chacha, is this gonna be different from that?

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Seun be Spectator .

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