Facebook phones are finally here. Today at & t and HTC announced the situation, the first phone in the U.S. with a dedicated button to Facebook.
The State is a small smartphone based on Android 2.3 with a 480 by 320 horizontal, 2.6 touchscreen inches and a keyboard on the front. Its most important feature, however, is the dedicated button on Facebook logo at the bottom of the phone. You can press the button share immediately what you are doing or who you are, if you are sharing a photo that took only, one interesting Web page, or a status update.
Facebook chat, which is absent in many versions of Facebook phone, connected here, and a home screen widget shows whether your friends are available. When you receive a call, the caller Facebook status appears on the screen.
It is also an Android phone in full right, of course, with the latest version of UI of HTC sense, it is widely regarded as the most serious extensions of Android software from the manufacturer. You can for example, move immediately to popular applications of the lock screen dragging a ring on the application icon, a unique feature of HTC.
The phone is a version of the HTC ChaCha, which we did a hands on the Mobile World Congress show in February in United States. At the time, I said that it was a "remarkable" that was "strong and sensitive", as well as "a little cuddly." I was worried that presentation of 480 by 320 horizontal screen could cause problems for third-party applications, however.
The ChaCha has already come out of United Kingdom, where Chris Davies of SlashGear said he has "a keyboard QWERTY frankly brilliant" and "is much more attractive to the silly name might suggest".
This is not first Facebook phone?just of the world the first of the States. Deep integration of Facebook were pioneers in INQ, but that the company never released any phones here. Facebook applications for various phones also offer different levels of integration; for example, BlackBerrys, merge Facebook contacts in address book and Facebook messages appear in the combined Inbox. The difference is the dedicated button.
When you start the ChaCha, Director General of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg said instead of a single, official Facebook phone, "we can expect see dozens of phones with much greater social integration than anything seen so far".
AT & t has not announced a price or date of release for this phone, except to say that this summer coming. With a processor from 800 MHz ARM11 Qualcomm, its small screen and a 5 megapixel camera, which reaches a point of function between low-end and midrange Android devices, which I hope will come in a $99 or less with a contract.
At the end of February, ChaCha search service sued HTC over infringement of trade mark on the HTC ChaCha.
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