The Facebook Phone: Busting the Myth - bradshawroyague1995

The Facebook Phone could be the next tech product to follow the recently launched Google Drive from the land of myth into reality, according to an online theme. Taiwan-based phone maker HTC is reportedly running with Facebook to produce an Android-settled device that will "enable and integrate every last functions available on the social networking site." The purported new phone could atomic number 4 available American Samoa early as midsummer, according to DigiTimes.

Despite perennial denials and HTC-branded Facebook busts such as the Salsa and Chacha, there are several reasons for HTC and Facebook to work together DigiTimes says. HTC wants an exclusive smartphone hit since the chances of HTC producing another Humanoid flagship phone, so much as the Nexus One, come out small. Google currently favors Samsung to produce fresh Nexus devices including the Nexus S and Wandflower Nexus. Interim, Facebook purportedly wants its own earphone because the social network of necessity to notic other sources of receipts after it goes public this year.

Those uninjured like solid reasons, but I'm not purchasing information technology. Facebook may have to suffice to shareholders soon, simply up to now the company has set up success aside putting its apps and plug-ins on all website, smartphone and tablet IT can find instead of concentrating on ironware.

Facebook's United States President, Mark Zuckerberg, says as much nigh every time these Facebook phone rumors come up. "Our destination is non to build a phone that competes with the iPhone OR anything like that," Zuckerberg told Bloomberg News in late 2010.

Afterthoughts are Bad

The HTC Salsa

Facebook has done a fairly groovy job of updating and emotional untried mobile apps for smartphone platforms such as Android and iOS, disdain attractive a ridiculously polysyllabic time to produce a domestic iPad app. But if the company focused along its own Mobile devices, that could come at the cost of competing platforms.

Just look at Google, which is constantly leaving its iOS apps as an afterthought in favor of Android. The search giant was excoriated for producing a substandard Gmail app for iOS in November, and the recently launched Google Drive help currently lacks native iOS support.

Whether Google is deliberately screwing up its iOS apps is debatable, but it's top the inducement is for the company to deliver soaring-quality features for its own mobile platform first. That path of thinking does not appear to cost go along with Facebook's "be everywhere" tactic. And let's not forget Facebook's bigger priority right now is development its new mobile advertisement scheme across all devices.

As for HTC, why would the phone maker want to take another run at a Facebook phone after the Salsa and Chacha? Those phones flatbottom had dedicated Facebook buttons connected them, how much more integrated can you get? Besides HTC's big mathematical product run along right now is its "One" series so much as the recently released and critically acclaimed One S. Unless a Facebook One is in the works, I wouldn't play on another HTC Facebook phone anytime soon.

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