These days, a lot of romors about facebook cell phone came out. But we cannot find its source. Do you believe the Facebook will release their first cell phone?
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Now, Let’ start at the rumor of a potential Facebook phone have emerged. It is said that Taiwanese manufacturer HTC will unveil two Facebook phones next month at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. It is apparent that they will be high-end Android phones customized to display Facebook messages and news feeds on their home screens. The phones will also sport Facebook branding and colors.
Dan Rose, head of business development at Facebook.
Dan Rose, head of business development at Facebook.
However，it is said on January 27 that Facebook has no plans to launch Facebook-branded phones with smartphone maker HTC. “This is really just another example of a manufacturer who has taken our public application programming interfaces and integrated them into their device in an interesting way,” said Dan Rose, head of business development at Facebook. So, it is unclear whether the Facebook phone will be tied to an exclusive mobile carrier.
It is obvious that the mobile is an increasingly important driver of traffic to facebook. There are approximately 250 million users per month access the social network on mobile devices. What’s more, htc is the manufacturer of the first Google-branded phone, the Nexus One. Therefore, htc has the responsibility to cooperate with the facebook and to produce phones like the Nexus one.
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But as for facebook, they think that their objections are not to build any specific device or integration or anything like that, because they are not trying to compete with Apple or the Droid or any other hardware manufacturer for that matter.
All in all, in the long run, that makes more sense for Facebook, since it could get prime real estate on many of HTC’s upcoming and current Android phones without worrying about building a device of its own.