Throughout the last few months, the possibility of Facebook launching its own mobile phone has sounded in different ways: a Facebook Phone. In the past, the social network company and the Taiwanese company HTC have already collaborated closely to launch several models with greater integration to the social network than most terminals. However, Mark Zuckerberg has stepped up and commented on what intentions his company has regarding the smartphone sector.
A few days ago there was talk "" it was assured from an important Internet page "", that in the middle of next year 2013, a mobile manufactured by Facebook would be put into circulation. That is, you could use an advanced terminal that had full integration with the largest social network of the moment and that the guys from Zuckerberg would be responsible for creating a proprietary operating system.
However, the founder of Facebook has stepped up and made one thing clear: "it doesn't make sense for Facebook to build its own phone ." Zuckerberg could not be clearer, who continues to bet on promoting mobile services and their advertisers. And it leaves aside the possibility of creating a smartphone with a custom-made operating system, as the The Next Web portal has learned.
Likewise, the latest rumors suggested that HTC would be in charge of working together with Facebook and would re-create mobiles like the HTC ChaChaCha, which appeared on the scene at the beginning of last year 2,011. On the other hand, the information also emerged that ex-Apple employees were joining the social network team to work on the project.
On the other hand, another possibility that was being considered is that Windows Phone was the operating system that could be seen inside the supposed terminal. And is that considering that Google was "" and is "" one of the main competitors of Facebook in terms of online services, it was one of the ways to completely ignore the Internet giant. Since the first possibility was to fully customize the Android icons and follow the path that Amazon started with its Kindle Fire.
But all these rumors have been denied by Zuckerberg. And therefore, it will continue to bet on improving and creating more mobile applications that are currently available on the vast majority of platforms for smartphones and simple mobiles. To be clearer, for example in Spain, that the use of advanced mobile phones is increasingly common, it was found that more than 50 percent of users surveyed in a study carried out by Google, used their terminal to access social networks.
Finally, the words of Mark Zuckerberg could be understood as that the hardware part "" creating the advanced mobile itself "" is not an important part for them. But the software part could be where Facebook put all the meat on the spit. What's more, some time ago the possibility of Facebook taking over the rights to the webOS operating system was being considered.
