garyopa
05-29-2012, 10:11 AM
The Facebook phone, codenamed 'Buffy'
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According to The New York Times, Facebook wants to create a smartphone and aims to release it by next year. Hires ex-Apple engineers.
According to a report by The New York Times, Facebook is expanding its efforts to create a smartphone and aims to release one by next year.
Also, they hired a half dozen former Apple software and hardware engineers to work on the project, codenamed "Buffy".
The report quotes one Facebook employee who says that Mark Zuckerberg "is worried that if he doesn't create a mobile phone in the near future that Facebook will simply become an app on other mobile platforms."
Last month, DigiTimes claimed that Facebook and HTC are partnering to create a new Android smartphone with "a platform exclusive to Facebook," and the Times says that the project is still in the works. The Times says that this is Facebook's third attempt to create a smartphone, after it discovered that it could not figure out hardware on its own — it's since reportedly hired engineers to work with a phone manufacturer to "design the shape, style, and inner workings of a Facebook phone."
With another rumor saying Facebook wants to buy Opera to create its own browser, this could "mesh" with an effort to create a new mobile platform... after all, Amazon has already shown, that they can do it, when building it on Android.
Google already has a phone (product of a partnership with Samsung), so why not Facebook?
NEWS SOURCE: Facebook phone report NYT (via) TheVerge (http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/27/3046813/facebook-phone-report-nyt)
Our thanks to 'Gauss' for this news item!
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According to The New York Times, Facebook wants to create a smartphone and aims to release it by next year. Hires ex-Apple engineers.
According to a report by The New York Times, Facebook is expanding its efforts to create a smartphone and aims to release one by next year.
Also, they hired a half dozen former Apple software and hardware engineers to work on the project, codenamed "Buffy".
The report quotes one Facebook employee who says that Mark Zuckerberg "is worried that if he doesn't create a mobile phone in the near future that Facebook will simply become an app on other mobile platforms."
Last month, DigiTimes claimed that Facebook and HTC are partnering to create a new Android smartphone with "a platform exclusive to Facebook," and the Times says that the project is still in the works. The Times says that this is Facebook's third attempt to create a smartphone, after it discovered that it could not figure out hardware on its own — it's since reportedly hired engineers to work with a phone manufacturer to "design the shape, style, and inner workings of a Facebook phone."
With another rumor saying Facebook wants to buy Opera to create its own browser, this could "mesh" with an effort to create a new mobile platform... after all, Amazon has already shown, that they can do it, when building it on Android.
Google already has a phone (product of a partnership with Samsung), so why not Facebook?
NEWS SOURCE: Facebook phone report NYT (via) TheVerge (http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/27/3046813/facebook-phone-report-nyt)
Our thanks to 'Gauss' for this news item!