It wasn’t the long-rumoured “Facebook Phone” revealed in a pair of announcements yesterday, but it’s sure an interesting move.
Instead of running Facebook as an app, Facebook Home is a coming-April-12 Android phone launcher (much like HTC Sense or Samsung TouchWiz).
It’ll start with a cover feed the moment you switch on, onscreen notifications to never miss another comment, mention, or like, pop up your friends’ chat heads over other apps when someone wants to talk to you and, if you happen to be interested in using, y’know, any of the other functionality of your phone, you can drag your head to its app launcher.
If you’d rather buy a whole new phone than install an app, looky there: the HTC First is a smartphone with Facebook Home preinstalled coming out April 12 (in, of course, the US).
EDIT: Looks like it could only be a few weeks afterwards that it comes to Canada.
Official sites: Facebook Home and HTC First. =) Bud
