A Facebook phone is coming soon, as early as next year and there have been reports that it will run on Linux and Opera. Facebook did hire a couple of Apple engineers in order to design hardware and software and with the rumoured buying of Opera, it’s pretty easy to put two and two together to concoct up a new Facebook Phone. The XDA Developers site is laying its bets that the official Facebook handset will be running a Unix OS and will feature Opera’s mobile browser. Taking a look at Facebook’s current inroads in the technology genre, this could well be quite true.
The number of users accessing Facebook on their mobile phones and smartphones has surpassed those who access it on their computers. This trend, however, gained momentum only over the last couple of years, especially since smartphones featuring a dedicated Facebook app came into the picture. These allowed one to easily access
the social networking site on-the-go with all the possible features neatly packed into what most would consider a user-friendly app. Facebook, has made a few attempts already to introduce a social networking-friendly handset in the past and tied up with a few companies, like HTC to develop and release “Facebook Phones”. Devices like the Android-powered HTC Salsa and HTC ChaCha, didn’t quite receive as much success as hoped and so it was back to the drawing board. The most recent attempt at cashing in on their mobile fame came in the form of the Vodafone Facebook Phone the Blue 555. The Java-based QWERTY device, although not a smartphone, integrated a great deal of the social network into a simple, yet chic looking han
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