Oh well that didn’t last very long. A Facebook representative has come out with a straight “No” when asked if the company was working with HTC on a specific Facebook-branded Android phone.
What he did go on to say, however, was that “This is really just another example of a manufacturer who has taken our public APIs and integrated them into their device in an interesting way” – which suggests that he does have some knowledge of HTC’s plans to integrate Facebook more deeply than is usual on today’s smartphones. But that it won’t go as far as being a “Facebook Phone”.
That was a very long paragraph, so here’s the Facebook logo. Updates have to have images in them. Helps with stuff to do with search engines.
Read Facebook’s full denial and search for any hidden meaning we may have missed over at Reuters.
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
A relatively high-spec smartphone, with a 4.5″ display running at 480 x 854 resolution and powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus the Ascend G510 arrives running Android 4.1.1 — albeit potentially hindered by Huawei only sticking 512MB of RAM inside it..
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
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