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Facebook Phone Due Next Year: Big Wave Or Small Ripple?
Other | Monday 28th May 2012 | Osh
Facebook is set to launch its very own smartphone, reports from Facebook employees have stated.
The giant corporation has apparently hired smartphone engineers, including experts who worked on the iPhone, to work on their very own phone due for probable release in 2013. This comes after the news that Facebook floated on the stock market (meaning that the markets themselves can determine the value of the shares, also known as 'going public'), so making capital in the mobile phone market is a continously more attractive prospect as an inlet for serious revenue.
According to one statement from an unspecified Facebook employee, Mark Zuckerberg was 'worried that if he doesn't create a mobile phone in the near future... Facebook will simply become an app on other mobile platforms'. Facebook has also just launched its own mobile app store, which offers links to Facebook-enabled apps, and will soon offer Facebook-exclusive apps, which sees them closing down on outside product and limiting it to their own exclusive content.
It all points to the world-domineering personality Facebook have been stamping on technology for a while now, beginning with its first appearance on smartphones as an app, and more recently with the inclusion of a Facebook button on HTCs. This bandwagoning will soon not be an issue for the company; once the Facebook phone eventually gets its release, other networks and models will more than likely notice a considerable loss in backing for their Facebook apps and support. Despite its disclosure as a bit of a financial non-event, Facebook's notoriety as one of the world's hungriest mega-corporations will see in an interesting seismic shift in the way we use phones in the future.
