Facebook may launch smartphone by next year

Posted on Aug 2 2012 - 12:17am by Bakhtawar Shaukat

Software and mobile companies are both hell different from one another. Can a software company make its own smartphone? You May say no. but in actual the answer is yes. Software Company can build its own smartphone. You will see it soon too. Facebook that is a software titan is getting entered in the hardware game as well. A report said that facebook may launch its own smartphone in the coming year. According to New York Times, engineers have been appointed by facebook to work on building hardware for the facebook smartphone. This will again be the social network attempt to develop hardware.

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Previously Google came with the hardware work from software work. Google is successful in the hardware world too. It has recently put back Motorola for $12.5 billion earlier. This is a big achievement. This market is encouraging facebook to get it entered in the hardware world. Definitely facebook will try to beat the sales of Google. Rumors about facebook smartphone launch are not new at all. Rumors are circulating about facebook smartphone for the past few years. Even facebook was working on smartphone manufacturing in 2011 but it had not come forward with the smartphone because of some development complications. Every analyst and newspapers are coming forward with their own news. One of the analyst is saying that facebook and HTC manufacturers are working together to make a new smartphone.  Even the name of the smartphone is predicted by the analysts. Code name is Buffy. Buffy is still in development. Facebook is hiring engineers that are working on developing smartphone for facebook. Some of the people are saying that facebook is hiring engineers of Apple for its smartphone. Again we are not sure that it is true or not. May be facebook is going to launch a new smartphone but it is in limelight because it the most earning software company these days. So everyone is keeping an eye on its planning and strategy.  Definitely facebook will come up with a good technology phone as it has to compete the existing developed market. There are many questions that come in our mind while thinking about facebook own smartphone.  Do you think that facebook entry in the Smartphone world will be good for it? Will it be able to extend its business or market? Will it come up with the best features or it will only focus on the facebook working? Will it crash the market of existing smartphone or Apple like it did for orkut. There are hundreds of questions in the mind of the analyst and people. Let’s see what will happen. Will it come up to our expectations or not. If facebook will bring its own smartphone, will you buy it? Many of you will say because facebook is the most used social site these days. No one knows the future of facebook whether it will remain at the top or it will get disappeared like orkut.

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  1. Saqib Ameen August 6, 2012 at 4:22 pm - Reply

    Well let’s see.. But i read a post before this on vsocio that it’s just a rumour

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