Facebook has unveiled a new app to turn any phone running Google's Android software into a 'Facebook phone'. The free software can be download to handsets and take over its homescreen and menu system to show updates without having to launch a Facebook app.
It will also be preloaded on new handsets, including a HTC handset called First which will be the first 'Facebook phone', and gos on sale on April 12th, when the free app will also launch
Experts said the move was an interesting one - but warn it could simply be a way to show users more ads..
'What Facebook wants is to put itself at the front of the Android user experience for as many Facebook users as possible and make Facebook more elemental to their customers' experience,' said Forrester analyst Charles Golvin.
The new Home service won't be available on Apple's iPhone and iPad devices. Apple's iOS and Mac operating systems include features that integrate Facebook's services, but Zuckerberg says doing something like Home would require a closer partnership.
Apple had no immediate comment.
From DailyMail
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