These days , you ’re never more than a few months away froma Facebook phone rumor . Now , despite the fact it couldprove to be an awful idea , Bloomberg is reportingthat Facebook is working closely with HTC ( again ) to found a Facebook headphone by 2013 .
https://gizmodo.com/nyt-facebook-is-working-on-its-own-smartphone-again-5913717
Strictly utter , Facebook has already built and launched a Facebook Phone with HTC : the Status . But despite “ deep ” Facebook integration — if that ’ s what you could call a Facebook Chat thingamabob and a consecrate Facebook button — it wasa license floating-point operation .
Instead , Bloomberg is reportingthat Facebook has assembled a squad of engineers from Apple and Palm , which has been putting together what the article describes as a “ limited operating system ” for the equipment . first , Bloomberg does n’t make clear what the OS might be based on — though Android is a safe stake — but nor does it exposit on how uttermost the modification is . That leaves room for some wild guess of how the OS will turn out , which could stray from something scarcely identifiable to an install little dissimilar from stock .
There are even few detailssupplied by Bloombergas regards hardware , save for the fact that the twist is reportedly being construct by HTC . While the task was , according to the paper , scheduled to be set in motion by the ending of 2012 , that date has apparently been pushed back to mid-2013 to “ give HTC more fourth dimension to work on other products ” .
The truth ofthe reportis , of class , up for disputation . But what ’s clear is that , however misguided the notion , Facebook wants to launch another phone at some point . [ Bloomberg ]
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