KARACHI: There’s been hype surrounding the Facebook phone for nearly two years now, though no one knows the truth about it, rather like crop circles or Bigfoot. Even though you might not be able to spy giant footprints on your lawn anytime soon, it looks like the mystery of the Facebook phone will finally be resolved, since Facebook has called press to “Come See Our New Home On Android” on 4th April.
We learn more in an inside report. Nope, it’s not the HTC ChaCha AKA “The Facebook Phone” or any other Android. In fact, it appears not to be a phone at all. How anti-climactic! Reportedly, it’s simply that the next HTCs will be entrenched in Facebook, or at the very least its home screen will.
Not like your ordinary Facebook app or widget, this one is allegedly a full-on Facebook skin, to make sure Facebook is the first thing you see when you unlock your screen. The mobile might have other Facebook-centered features too, such as a picture sharing icon that posts directly to Facebook by default or a contacts list that incorporates all your Facebook contacts, or a calendar listing all their birthdays automatically.
So if Facebook is integrating only with Android this way, does that mean Mark Zuckerberg is banking on it against Apple’s iOS systems?
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