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HTC’s Facebook Phone Isn’t A Facebook Phone In China

Announced alongside the HTC Status, the full touchscreen handset known as Salsa in Australia and Europe has been given a Chinese once-over, ditching the Facebook logo and baked-in features for Weibo support, which is China’s version of Twitter. [SinaTech via Buzzom via MicGadget]

July 16, 2011
Mobile

HTC ChaCha Facebook Phone Review: Let’s Just Pretend This Isn’t It

The FACEBOOK PHONE is here. As it turns out, it’s a lot like a non-Facebook phone – a small Android phone with an astoundingly excellent keyboard. It just happens to have a Facebook button! Does this matter? Not much, no.

July 1, 2011
Mobile

Why On Earth Is HTC Locking ChaCha And Salsa Bootloaders?

Gizmodo AU

HTC has today announced that its new ChaCha and Salsa smartphones, will be available from July 6, exclusive to Vodafone and 3. But in an odd twist, it’s been revealed that the bootloaders on these new Gingerbread “Facebook phones” will be locked. Updated.

June 30, 2011
Mobile

HTC’s New Status Has Deep Facebook Powers

At least one of the Facebook phones HTC announced back in February has finally hit AT&T in the US. Now the ridiculous-sounding HTC ChaCha goes by the somewhat more palatable HTC Status.

February 15, 2011
Mobile

HTC’s Facebook Phones Live! Kidz, Meet The ChaCha And Salsa

So HTC was building Facebook phones – though they’re not billing them as that, despite the oddly placed Facebook badges. Without a shadow of doubt crossing Vladimir Putin’s face, the ChaCha and Salsa (need I say more?) are aimed at the “youth.”

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