Facebook just invited the press to an event at Facebook HQ that will show off Facebook’s “new home on Android”. Is this the much talked about (and denied) Facebook phone?
Will Facebook be using the Android OS to build a layer of Facebook on top of? Hmm. Or is this just some new version of the Android Facebook app?
TechCrunch is reporting that this press event will indeed bring a Facebook phone of sorts. Their sources say that the event will centre around an HTC phone that will run a modified version of Android “with deep native Facebook functionality”. Think things like messaging with Facebook Messenger and sharing to the ‘book from anywhere in the phone.
We’ll find out on April 4. If it looks like a Facebook phone and works like a Facebook phone…