Facebook working on their own phone?

By on Sep 19, 2010 at 4:01 PM
mobile September 19, 2010

TechCrunch broke the news and Business Insider is also reporting that Facebook is working on their own mobile handset. The first report claimed that Facebook’s Joe Hewitt and Eric Tseng (previous Facebook iPhone app developer and previous Senior Product Manager for Android at Google) are heading up the project. When Business Insider chimed in, however, the scope of the project seemed to make more sense than Facebook creating a mobile OS from scratch — they’re rumored to be using Android as the base layer and heavily customizing the UI, applications, and experience. Before you get too excited, it’s being reported the project won’t be ready until late 2011, and even better, Facebook PR has chimed in saying that they are “not building a phone.” If this does pan out to be true, is a Facebook-heavy Android-based handset something that would interest you?

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  • tallperson117

    NOPE. I’ll keep my Ninja-Blur, freaking love it, first time I haven’t put a custom rom onto my Android phone because I’m so content with it :)

  • Will

    Why? No, seriously…why? That’s like the stupidest crap idea for a phone I’ve ever heard. Sense and TW take care of my FB needs. FB phone? Just like the “Twitter” phone. Something blows up out of nowhere after being around for years, all of a sudden they wanna jump on Google’s sac and copy their idea. Their idea worked… this will fail; that is, if it even sees the light of day. KIN anyone?

  • Jarrett

    What exactly were you fired for?

  • WalterSobchak

    Why does it bother you so much?
    It has apparently consumed your existence so much that you troll this site 24 hours a day and spam this comment.
    Why do you insist on coming to this site?
    You literally have nothing better to do?

  • WalterSobchak

    What does that nonsensical jabber even mean?
    What is the exposure you speak of? Who is a bitchboy?

  • WalterSobchak

    Oh you were calling me a bitch boy? I thought that is what you were calling BG?
    It is good that you can conjure up multiple insulting/emasculating terms.
    Seriously though, are you like 9?
    Also I have plenty of reflective surfaces, mirrors, TVs, windows, silverware. What does that have to do with anything? What are you a ferret?

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