Facebook today announced its brand new Android Launcher called Facebook Home which will serve as a gateway to the social network’s services. The launcher is meant to replace the default skin on your Android device and hooks in with Facebook centric services. Predictably, the focus here is on sharing and keeping a track of whatever your friends are up to.
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Facebook just announced their Facebook Home Android product and only select HTC and Samsung devices will be getting it initially. The Samsung Galaxy S3 , Galaxy Note 2 and HTC OneX+ are existing devices which are supported.The HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4 are new devices which will be compatible with the app. Facebook put rumors about a Facebook phone or an forked Android OS with the launch of this app.
Facebook has been rumored to be working on a hardware element for its mobile strategy for years now and its intentions are expected to be revealed at an Android centric event to be held on 4th of April. The popular social network has worked with smartphone manufacturer, HTC, in the past on Android hardware and is expected to announce another partnership at the event.
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Facebook has long been expected to launch its own hardware in collaboration with HTC. Looks like the moment might finally be here as the social media giant has announced its intentions of holding an event on 4th April.
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We have seen multiple patents filed by Apple in the past few months which relates to unlocking the device like the finger print scanner, the face recognition and now Apple has filed a patent which unlocks the device only if you can identify your contacts.
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Facebook, after aggressively targeting Whatsapp with new capabilities in its messenger app, is now reportedly ready to launch another standalone app, that takes advantage of your Facebook account. This app is supposedly a snapchat-like app with self-destructible timed messages. Read on to find out what it is about.
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Facebook for Android has always struggled with performance issues and particularly laggy scrolling due to its dependence on webviews instead of native code. The company has now finally rolled out a native build of the app for Android which promises to double the performance of the application. The application is expected to be twice as fast at looking at photos and opening up the timeline.
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Yahoo’s major service like Flickr was being neglected from a long time, last update received for the Flickr iOS app was on 21st December 2011. Now yahoo has come come out with a completely overhauled interface for iOS which is snappy, and mobile friendly.
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The Facebook app for Windows Phone has been under scrutiny due to the lack of several features compared to the iOS and Android counterparts. With the latest version 2.5 update , the app aims to bring it up to feature parity with the other platforms. The update brings many long requested features like threaded messaging and group messaging.
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The ASUS Transformer Prime is one of the hottest selling Android tablet in the market right now. Just yesterday ASUS posted in their official Facebook page that they are really excited about their new firmware update which will be bringing some awesome features. Now, ASUS Italia has shed some more light on what these features might be, read on to know more about this.
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Facebook for Windows Phone has been updated to version 2.3 that brings new design for profile and panorama, groups, pages, improved news feed performance, filters and more. Continue reading “Facebook for Windows Phone v2.3 update brings new profile and panorama design, pages and more”
Facebook for Android gets updated to version 1.8 that brings new features such as easier navigation to oups, apps, pages, and settings, better search and photos, faster navigation, games and apps and more. Facebook for iPhone v4.0 got these features recently. Continue reading “Facebook for Android v1.8 update brings better photo viewing, easier Navigation and more”
Facebook has finally launched the Facebook for iPad. This would let the iPad users access their Facebook news feed, view high-res photos, play games, chat with friends and more. Continue reading “Facebook app now available for iPad”
Blurry press shots of a handset have appeared which appears to be the new Motorola EX225. The Motorola EX225 which resembles the HTC Status comes equipped with a dedicated facebook button which taps into a customized Facebook experience.
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Well this is not first time a Social Networking oriented Phone has been launched. We have seen INQ phones, HTC ChaCha & Salsa facebook smartphones. But Vodafone Blue Facebook phone is definitely something different.There are few reasons. Continue reading “First Impressions and Hands-on with Vodafone Blue 555 Facebook Phone”
