How Will Google React to Facebook
Now that Facebook has introduced its new Home suite of Android apps, opinions on it have begun rolling in. Although few have seen the HTC First, the first and only smartphone built to feature Facebook Home, comments on the concept are notable. So are its implications for Android.
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Week in Tech: Facebook shows it knows the power of apps over hardware
is like fashion: by the time an exciting new range hits the shops, the industry's eyes are already on the next big thing. This week, the next big things are coming from the biggest names in the business.If you were expecting this week's big story to be the Facebook phone, you'd be right, sort of:... -techradar
Gary Marshall: Facebook Home: Android's worst nightmare?
Mark Zuckerberg is smart. Facebook could have forked Android and tried to get manufacturers on board, but that would have been an enormous job - and a risky one too, because as Windows Phone's disappointing numbers demonstrate, half-arsed support from OEMs is little better than no support at all.So rather than compete w... -techradar
Why Facebook snubbed Apple and iOS with Facebook Home
rought a recently rumored Android overlay to life today, the Facebook Home, along with the first handset to carry it, the appropriately named HTC First. Rather than making its own handset or forking Android to create an outright Facebook operating system, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that as a Google Play download that'll eventu... -techradar
Updated: HTC First release date, price, specs and features
TC First, the closest thing we'll get to a Facebook Phone, as it has Facebook Home preloaded. Facebook Home is the eponymous social network's new deeply integrated Android overlay which brings all manner of Facebook shenanigans to your phone's homescreen and notifications bar."It's a great opportunity to bring mobile... -techradar
Updated: HTC First announced, coming to the UK with EE
phone to come with Facebook Home built in is coming to the UK, with EE set to range the HTC First in the UK. It sports a 4.3-inch display, dual-core processor, runs Android Jelly Bean and will arrive in four colours; red, black, white and pale blue.That's all we really know for now, with the handset hitting the U... -techradar
Facebook Home's new Cover Feed replaces Android's lock and home screens
umored "Facebook Phone" has taken the form of Facebook Home - not a phone at all, but "a family of apps" that will be deeply integrated with the Android OS.Facebook Home is a custom Android interface that, among other things, replaces the lock screen and the home... -techradar
Windows Phone
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always had a leg-up in the "cool factor" over Microsoft, but its devices may also finally outsell Windows hardware in 2013, according to a market research group this week.Devices such as the iPhone, iPad and Mac will result in more sales than Windows PCs, tablets, and smartphone, acc... -techradar
Microsoft tells Android users: 'Forget Facebook Home, get Windows Phone'
has applauded Facebook's efforts to bring the 'people first' experience Android is "sadly lacking", with its Facebook Home UI, but said Windows Phone has been offering that for two years. Frank X. Shaw, Microsoft's communications kingpin, said yesterday's event was "remarkably similar"... -techradar
Apple's curved iPhone patent comes to life in photos, but is it real?
repeats itself, this year Apple will probably release something along the lines of an iPhone 5S - but it's unlikely to resemble the prototype of a curved handset making the rounds online.GSM Arena reported Thursday that a pair of convincing-looking photos (shown here and here) for a potential new iPhone have su... -techradar
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