Facebook Home for android revealed by Mark Zuckerberg, its not a fully fledged phone afterall

Facebook finally revealed their Home app for android devices, which indicates that they were not actually planning to launch a fully fledged phone after all. All the rumors, indicating that Facebook is actually planning to build their own phone around android sdk, turns out to be false.

The app actually transforms your phone's home screen into a tightly integrated Facebook Home (which can be reffered as a Facebook Phone, one way or another). Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg today unveiled a new way to integrate its network on Android devices called "Facebook Home."

Zuckerberg explained the main reason to build an app which integrates the Facebook on your android home screen. According to him "Our phones today are designed around apps, not people. We want to flip that around."

While we still can't test the features and abilities of the new "Facebook home", but we will sure post the review when we get the hands on it. Lets get back to the article - as mentioned at the event and what we actually could harness from the information provided -- the Facebook Home will put updates from the social network right on the home screen via a feature called cover Feed. Content from Facebook takes up the entire screen.

There is another unique feature, which will pop-up avatar or profile picture of your friends or relatives from Facebook or contacts display on the homepage based on the type of message you got (Facebook message of standard sms). This feature is called "chat heads" -- basically because profile pictures are displayed as a circular shape resembling the head of a human body.

Power Android users though likely won't find much to tempt them in this Facebook, HTC co-creation. Specs for the device were not mentioned at Facebook's press event.

"For more than 30 years, computers were mostly about tasks the modern computing device has a very different place in our lives," said Zuckerberg."It's also for making us more social connected and aware."

Facebook says Home will be available only for certain specific phones at launch. A tablet version would come at a later date. Facebook Home is optimized for the HTC One and One X, and the Samsung Galaxy S III, Galaxy S 4 and Note II, Zuckerberg said.

Expect the HTC First to cost $99.99 sold exclusively by AT&T, which will be launched on April 12th, 2013.

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