Facebook is working on a phone! But Facebook has been working on a phone. What’s new? Well, it’s a completely different project because their first top secret effort crashed and burned. It’s a sordid history of employee jealousy, secret plans, power struggles and just plain failure.
You might remember the HTC ChaCha, the “Facebook phone” that didn’t quite live up to its name. Now, AllThingsD claims, the rumours will finally bear fruit: a Facebook Phone made by Facebook. The real deal. And it sounds pointless.
Sure, the new phones INQ and HTC rolled out this week are Facebook-friendly. But none of them is the Facebook phone. Which, despite repeated protestations to the contrary, it sure sounds like is in the works. Although not how we first thought.
The just-announced INQ Facebook-themed phones will arrive with a predictive typing system onboard powered by TouchType’s Fluency technology.
Mark Zuckerberg just said so, on stage, right now, at the Facebook mobile event. They’re instead making their platform accessible on all phones.
Looks like Facebook is throwing a very special mobile event on Wednesday, and while there are barely any details about it, we’re secretly hoping that it’s going to end with an announcement of the Facebook Phone. [TechCrunch]
