Is Facebook Phone The Next Agenda Of Mark Zuckerberg?

Mark Zuckerberg's has been suggesting all of it around: There is absolutely no Facebook phone.

Though this coming year, are going to be a wide selection of mobile handsets like HTC's ChaCha and therefore Salsa, which Facebook together with dedicated buttons for the social networking service.

Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and thus chief executive, cleared up the Facebook phone method in a reported video record, exposed in HTC's press conference in the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

"A lot's been claimed in regards to single Facebook phone," he was quoted saying, "but this coming year you can expect to view a large number of telephones with much deeper social addition than something we come across so far."

HTC's handsets are still Android-based, with the same Sense UI that comes on in mobiles just like the Droid Incredible and Evo 4G. They simply go a bit deeper with Facebook incorporation caused by that dedicated button. Holding it will take you directly to the social network, or possibly looking on context, will probably carry through specific decisions just like spreading a picture as well as tune. The ChaCha as well as Salsa even pull in status updates and modern snap shots when calling a friend, as well as point out to consumers of upcoming birthdays.

British mobile phone developer INQ, which can be owned by HTC, is building a Facebook-integrated phone referred to as the Cloud Touch. This smartphone is Android-based, even so the overall software is designed about Facebook features, like events, notification and Places. The INQ Cloud Touch is striking the United Kingdom in April, and also the USA in the Fall.

Whilst none of such products are Facebook-branded mobile phones, per se, the connection looks sufficiently strong enough that Facebook may not need its very own OS or simply branded phone. As a substitute, the social network can bit by bit take control functions of established systems -- just like contacts, calendars, messages as well as location-based check-ins -- to ensure additional features end up unneeded. It's a lot more a transition to the actual concept of a Facebook phone over a single gadget, knowing that changeover is transpiring at this time.