Facebook to Launch Its Own Smart Phone
By Shaunak, 5th Jun 2012 | Follow this author
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Recently rumors have resurfaced that Facebook is working on a project to develop its own smartphone. These are just not baseless rumors but are backed by solid clues and leaks suggesting that Facebook is indeed working on a smart phone with possible launch in early 2013.
- Facebook - King of Social Networks
- Need to go for Hardware Manufacturing
- Facebook phone- Work in Progress
- Configurations of Facebook Phone
Facebook - King of Social Networks
Facebook is the undisputed ruler of the social networks. After MySpace and Orkut, there isn't any other network to challenge facebook's dominance. Even Google+ could not make inroads into facebook's dominance. It has already surpassed Google to become the place where users spend their maximum time online. Nearly a billion people around the world rely on Facebook to share photos, status updates, check-ins, and just stay connected with their networks of friends and family.
Need to go for Hardware Manufacturing
So why does facebook needs to go into hardware manufaturing when it is doing so well in software and apps market. It is because of two reasons-
- Facebook is under fire over its share price plunge after a highly hyped IPO and is under serious pressure to come up with something new
- Facebook is struggling to make money out of its growing mobile audience and is worried that if it doesn't create a mobile phone in the near future, then Facebook will simply become an app on other mobile platforms.
Facebook phone- Work in Progress
The company has already hired more than half a dozen former Apple software and hardware engineers who worked on iPhone, and one who worked on iPad. However, this is not the first attempt by the company at smartphone market. In 2010 a project was started but was soon scrapped when the firm realised the difficulty of making a new platform. Another effort, in cooperation with the Taiwanese smartphone firm HTC and codenamed "Buffy", is still under development. With its new, hand-picked smartphone engineers, Facebook is now leaving nothing behind by expanding the group working on Buffy, and exploring other smartphone projects too, creating a team of seasoned hardware engineers who have built the devices before".
Configurations of Facebook Phone
Facebook's Phone is already been touted as the Iphone killer. Looking very much like a cross between an iPhone and a Nokia Lumia 900, Facebook concept phones are sleek, thin, and sexy. There is no words on configurations of the phone, but it will include a 4.2-inch display and an eight-megapixel camera on the back. The Facebook smartphone is scheduled for release by next year. So how will it look like? what will be radically different? Well its still early and facebook is guarding the information quite secretly but whatever the case may be, It will be quite exciting to see the first Facebook phone when it’s released next year.
As a parting thought would you buy a Facebook phone if and when it launched ?
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Comments
5th Jun 2012 (#)
Oh i think a Facebook phone is a bad idea. Apple and Google have always been software companies. Facebook, at its core, remains a popular social networking site where friends meet and interact. Facebook should do what it does best and not get into the mobile business.
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6th Jun 2012 (#)
dont think a facebook phone would go over very big... interesting article Shaunak thanks.. xo
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6th Jun 2012 (#)
It actually makes a lot of sense for FaceBook to do this. Replace the Apple and Google apps with FaceBook Mail, IM, calendar, photos, music, videos, games and maybe even a FaceBook eBook reader app. Connect it all up to a FaceBook Store. Negotiate some deals with wireless carriers for cheap/unlimited FaceBook data and away they go.
The hardware seems pretty slick, like all new Android phones does. At least until next week when there is a newer and better phone available.
Is there a market for this. Remember the girl that was involved in a cavein of a tunnel in Austalia, and updated her FB status to get rescued? Of course there is a market for it. And for young fellows like us who spend more than half of their spare time on facebook, a phone like this really makes sense
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6th Jun 2012 (#)
Interesting and nice to know that. Thank you Shaunuk
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6th Jun 2012 (#)
I don't see myself going for one of these. I don't particularly like Facebook that much as it is (I do use it regularly, but only because none of my friends can be bothered to try out the alternatives) so I certainly wouldn't use a Facebook phone.
I'm sure lots of teenagers will launch themselves at a Facebook phone. I wouldn't be surprised if it became "my first smartphone" in all but name. It'll be the must have accessory for everyone under 21.
As long as Apple keep up the levels of quality and attention to detail that we've come to expect despite the absence of Steve Jobs, I'll be sticking with them.
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15th Jun 2012 (#)
I have a common-or-garden cell phone. I was told recently that I have a smart phone. When I asked a technician how to remove a photo and send to my computer, she tried to change the figures on the phone to letters, and it did not work-out! Is my phone smarter than me and a Verizon technician? I think some of us really only think we know. I confess to being a cell-phone neophyte, although I have had this phone for many years.
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