New Delhi: The Internet is abuzz with reports that Facebook will unveil a modified version of Google's Android OS, which embeds Facebook deeply into the operating system, on a phone made by HTC, at its "new home on Android" event on April 4.
With less than 12 hours to go, and leaked images of the Facebook phone have started hitting the web. Now, 9to5Google has posted images of what it claims to be the new UI for the upcoming Facebook phone. The images come from @evleaks, who yesterday released the first potential image of the phone.
Rumours and leaks suggest that "the company will reveal an alternative Android launcher, replacing the homescreen and other core phone functionality with Facebook features," reports The verge.
The new smartphone is expected to be a mid-range handset. Reports claim that Facebook will launch a custom Android OS on the HTC handset codenamed "Myst". Other leaks suggest that the smartphone will be officially be called "HTC First".
The phone is rumoured to have a 4.3-inch display, 16GB of storage, a 5-megapixel camera and 1GB RAM. The custom software will also be capable of running on other Android devices, including those from Samsung, HTC, and Google.
It seems plausible that the rumoured smartphone may have a particular portion of smartphone's homescreen devoted to information from the user's Facebook account.
More than half of Facebook's 1.06 billion monthly users access it on a mobile device. A deeper integration would help Facebook with its mobile aspirations.
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