When the original Facebook phone was introduced, it was created by HTC, and it certainly didn't do very well on the market. With both the HTC Salsa and the HTC ChaCha having been released and selling so few units that they didn't warrant a follow-up in the many, many quarters that followed, it doesn't seem very logical that the social network and the manufacturer would want to create such an amalgamation again. And it's not as if HTC is swimming in cash at the moment, either.
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Facebook event to reveal “real” Android app (not a phone)
If you've been following the Facebook press events that have occurred over the past couple of years, you know one thing is rather apparent: they love to hold press conferences. Zuckerberg and the Facebook crew have held press conferences for everything from the opening bell on their IPO top an announcement about possible Facebook couponing. Here's the long and short it, it being the April 4th Facebook event: if Facebook wanted to make a Facebook phone, they wouldn't do it like this.
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Motorola hype advisor tips Custom-order Smartphone Hardware
In a single post to a Google+ community, the newest Motorola “advisor” Guy Kawasaki has stoked a wildfire of suggestions for the upcoming so-called X Phone. This Kawasaki fellow was for many, many years an Apple/Macintosh evangelist, having “switched” to Android just this past year – and just this past month (February 27th, to be exact) – he joined Motorola as an advisor, focusing on, as he puts it: “product design, user interface, marketing, and social media.” He’s made a post today asking whether it’d be amazing to be able to custom-order a smartphone the way Porsche allows with their “Exclusive” series.
Facebook introduces cleaner look to Timeline
Facebook may have finally ignored the Timeline at the company's most recent press event when they unveiled the new News Feed that'll be coming shortly, but that doesn't mean they're not making changes. Facebook has introduced a cleaner look to Timeline, and they'll be slowly rolling out the new design over the coming weeks.
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Netflix introduces Netflix Social to share favorite movies and shows with friends
I bet you wish you could share all the fascinating things you're watching on Netflix with friends, and thanks to a new feature that Netflix announced today, you finally can. Netflix Social is the company's first attempt at getting in on the social networking buzz with Facebook, and it allows you to see what's popular among your friends.
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Facebook Mobile DevCon 2013 revealed: Android and iOS on tap
The 2013 edition of Facebook's efforts to bring the developer universe into the social networking fold has been revealed, complete with several different events taking place around the world. The Facebook Mobile Developer Conference 2013 will be taking place on April the 18th in New York, on the 2nd of May in London, and all the way over in Seoul on the 7th of May. This series of events also goes by the name Facebook Mobile DevCon 2013, if you'd like to be short about it.
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Facebook acquires Social-Blogging group Storylane
This week the folks at Facebook have both revealed a brand new set of features for their News Feed - for you and I - and have acquired a platform for social blogging by the name of Storylane. The acquisition of this group has been announced by Facebook as a key acquisition that'll bring their ability to showcase "real identity through sincere and meaningful content" up to the forefront, per the previous work done by the acquired group. This acquisition moves the team of five employees that make up Storylane into the fold - the Facebook fold.
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Facebook News Feed update’s privacy changes: the one
This week the Facebook developer team revealed a series of changes (read: feature additions) to their News Feed that'll allow you to see a much more simplistic and aesthetically beautiful vision of what your friends, associates, and likeables are sharing. The immediate reaction from many will be that this, like so many Facebook updates before, will once again adversely affect what the easily startled call their "online privacy." In fact this newest change only changes one thing for those of you that want to remain as "private" as you were before - the location of the Privacy Settings button.
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Facebook Phone strikes again: HTC Myst leaked
It’s about time we had another suggestion for a Facebook phone – it’s been about 2 months since we last spoke about the concept and we’ve only had a couple of years between the first HTC Facebook phone in the ChaCha and now. So what’s this newest concept all about? It’s all about reviving the relative failure that was the HTC Salsa for a whole new generation – but why? Why would HTC and Facebook do such a thing?
SlashGear 101: this week’s Facebook News Feed redesign
The changes that are coming to your Facebook News Feed are numerous – but they’re not going to interrupt the way you do business on a daily basis. Instead you’re going to find the features added this week by the Facebook crew to be just that – Features: helpful and (hopefully) rather intuitive to use. For those of you working with the mobile app version of Facebook on either iOS or Android, this change-over will be extra simple: it is, at its core, a bridge between the mobile and desktop experience.
Facebook Choice of Feeds, Mobile UI detailed: rollout begins today
This week the folks at Facebook are updating the way that your News Feed works. One of the several features revealed this week was "Choice of Feeds" - this feature allowing you to control what you see to a whole new degree. There's an "All Friends" option, there's one for Music, and there's a feed for just Photos, too. You'll also find a "following" feed that only shows Facebook friends, brands, and etc that you follow specifically.
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Facebook News Feed Update: it’s all changing – again
If you’ve heard about the Facebook event this week surrounding changes to the social network’s main feed, you’ve likely felt a little tinge of annoyance. It’s not as if we’ve not seen drastic changes to one of the most visited websites in the history of the world before, but as it’s been made clear several times before: people don’t like change in the tools they use every single day. So what can we expect over the next few months now that the Facebook crew is letting loose a brand new collection of features?
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