RIP the first facebook phone

HTC First (a.k.a. the Facebook Phone)

In April 2013, Facebook decided to expand its efforts in mobile with its new Android app launcher, Facebook Home. Although Facebook Home works on other Android devices, it debuted alongside the HTC First, a mid-level smartphone aimed at the average smartphone users.

Unfortunately for Facebook, both Facebook Home and the HTC First landed with a resounding thud. Although Facebook Home still exists, HTC axed the HTC First just months after its release, giving it the shortest smartphone life cycle since the failed Microsoft Kin.

Though most user complaint about the Home function but many are sticking to the facebook lock screen. 

But you can still download the Facebook Home via an application from the google playstore. 

Facebook Reveals 'Facebook Home'

Facebook has announced,a suite of apps and Android launcher called Home. Its main tenet is called CoverFeed that uses photos to connect people, apps and data in a single place. According to Facebook, the app is used three times more than any other Android app on average; users are inside the app for an average of 30 minutes per day.

The app itself will be available for download on April 12 from Google Play — loads when your phone starts up, and basically swaps out your home screen with its own interface. obviously would make your phone to a Facebook phone.


You can browse Facebook straight away, but if you tap your face icon, you see options to go to the app menu or messaging. The app launcher is customized, but includes Android apps from Google Play, or ones you downloaded from the Internet. (These are not Facebook apps, like the games you'd play on the Facebook website.)


Some Android phones will have access to the free software, but HTC and AT&T will release the first phone with Home pre-installed, appropriately named the HTC First. It will go on sale April 12, and is available for preorder now from AT&T. i wonder how about the launch on other part of the world?

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