Mark Zuckerberg and the Truth About Facebook Phones

The Facebook phone has been quite an item last year because of the privacy issues and all that. Speculations say that with the social network reigning as no.1 all over the world, they might as well venture on a more tangible technology. However, the rumors about the infamous device was ceased when Mark Zuckerberg, the man behind Facebook denied the issue. No mention of Facebook phone anywhere.

However, the statement did not end gossip. More news came out about the Facebook phone. It took at least another year to make everything clear —Zuck’s strategy is to have Facebook planted in everyone’s phone. He revealed during the HTC launch event in Barcelona that we’ll be seeing the first cloud of Facebook-enabled phones in the market this year.

Facebook’s official blog site quoted some interesting words to ponder, referring to Facebook phones “as an element of the device hardware itself.” Are we sensing a Facebook-specialized button?

Here’s Zuckerberg’s video message, and the introduction of the HTC Salsa and HTC ChaCha:

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