Hearing: Facebook smartphone will be released this year

A smartphone under the Facebook brand, previously already buried by journalists, can still be released in the third quarter of this year. About this, according to CNews.ru, writes on Wednesday the Taiwanese edition of Digitimes with reference to its own sources.

The device will be based on the Android platform with customized software from Facebook. It will offer the user all the functions available on a social network through a web interface or mobile applications, but within the framework of the operating system.

The branded smartphone will become one of the additional sources of profit for the largest social network of the world after entering the IPO, which is expected in the coming months. Analysts call smartphones the most promising category of consumer electronics.

Sources in Taiwan confirmed the publication that the second participant in the project is the HTC company - in November last year, about this with reference to its own sources, notified the All Things Digital resource. Then he said that the project to create his own Facebook smartphone was carried out for at least the last two years.

In the past, HTC has already collaborated with Google, with which she released the first “Google” - Google’s company smartphone on the Android platform. Since the end of 2010, this cooperation has ceased, and the new model of the smartphone - Nexus S - has already been developed and made by Samsung. Having lost such an important client as Google, HTC hastened to go over to the competitor camp, Digitimes explains.