Apparently the thing is serious. Rumors about a possible Facebook Phone or a mobile belonging to the great Social Network are increasingly common. Although Mark Zuckerberg's company would be trying to get as few details to light as possible, it has been learned that half a dozen ex-Apple engineers would be working on the ambitious project.
The last few weeks have been quite busy for Facebook, the Social Network that has 900 million active users. And it is that recently "" last May 18 "" went public. However, the enthusiasm was short-lived and the first results disappointed. But here is not everything. And it is that Facebook also surprised, during last April, with the purchase of the famous photographic social network Instagram for a value of 1,000 million dollars.
Little by little, Facebook is forming a new environment that would suggest that the goal to be achieved is a new operating system within its own mobile. Rumors have been circulating on the Internet since 2010. Moreover, it was commented that HTC could once again be in charge of launching the Facebook mobile on the market, repeating the alliance as already happened in the cases of HTC ChaChaCha or HTC Salsa "" in Spain only the first is sold "". However, the relationship only led to the creation of mobiles with a dedicated button that was located at the bottom of the chassis and that provided direct access to Facebook.
But to all this, now is added the information that has leaked one of the technology blogs of The New York Times , where it is emphasized that Mark Zuckerberg would have hired former Apple employees to work on the project. To be more exact, it would be about half a dozen engineers who would have been in charge of the design and part of the operating system that, today, both the iPhone and the iPad have installed.
What's more, one of the engineers would have spoken to the newspaper and commented that the founder of the Social Network would be really worried. The intentions to enter directly into the mobile telephony sector with its own terminal would come from the concern that Facebook will become just another mobile application.
However, it should be remembered that the project " Buffy " "" this is how the plan to create the new mobile is known "" is based on a smartphone created jointly with HTC. On the other hand, it would be formed, mainly, by Google's Android. But with a peculiarity: as it happens with Amazon's Kindle Fire "" the first tablet of the largest online store "" the mobile platform of those from Mountain View would be modified; perhaps they would include shortcuts to the latest integrations and proposals from the social giant.
At the moment, the secrecy of Mark Zuckerberg and his is working well "" leaving aside the leaks that The New York Times has achieved "". In addition, the last thing that is predicted is that the advanced mobile would come into play from next year 2013.
