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Facebook to Enter Mobile Phone Market in 2011

If the facebook phone works as well as Facebook (and the app for Facebook) does, I'm staying far far away.

Last thing I need is a phone that only works like it is supposed to maybe 1/3 of the time, 1/3 of the time at least passabley working if not doing what it should, and hte last 1/3 fuxoring up so badly I can't even get it to do the basics.

Facebook is so shoddily programmed. I mean they put nifty features in there but don't seem to ever put in any effort to make those features work smoothly and not act like total beta stuff that needs a lot of refining.
 
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huntercr said:
with their little phones they came out with? What were they called? I think they actually had a good idea with those phones.

A facebook phone will totally flop. Facebook is an APP. It will always be an app. No mater how much people use the app it, it isn't going to be a good phone.
OIn the end, people will just prefer REAL android with real facebook ( or real iPhone with real facebook )
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FaceBook is not just an App. FaceBook is the information concerning you and all your friends that is stored on their server. The app is just the front end that lets you access and manipulate that information. Their website is just another front end that (mostly) does the same thing as the app.

While this is not something I would be interested in purchasing, I can see it selling very well considering FaceBook's popularity. They already have a field for people to input their phone numbers and it is functional of the iPhone and most likely functional on other phones as well. The Palm Pre even has FaceBook integration built it. I could see this being quite successful if they get the hardware right.
 
FB is getting way to big.
But if they keep coming up with ideas like these watch them fall :D
The sad thing is there are millions of teeny boppers out there that will buy the stupid thing.
 
Snowcat001 said:
Who will ever buy this crap?:confused:
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oldwatery said:
The sad thing is there are millions of teeny boppers out there that will buy the stupid thing.
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...If it doesn't require a data plan. Unless it costs the same as, or very little more, than a plain voice+text plan (and is on prepaid MVNOs), it will fail just as hard as Kin did. Even if it doesn't, there probably isn't a market large enough to sustain it. Facebook would do better to ramp up their apps, or do a partner deal with someone like RIM, who already has a semi-popular service (BBM) which could benefit from some co-branding.
 
epic fail

I've been following MacRumors for it's entire life span, and this would have to be the first time I have seen MacRumors fail so badly at recognising a rumor as being just a rumor that has even already been denied.

Not only is this rumor old, but Facebook has already denied it. One has to realise Bloomberg is just repeating what is now old news.
 
iMJustAGuy said:
They shot this rumor down over a week ago....
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xplora said:
I've been following MacRumors for it's entire life span, and this would have to be the first time I have seen MacRumors fail so badly at recognising a rumor as being just a rumor that has even already been denied.

Not only is this rumor old, but Facebook has already denied it. One has to realise Bloomberg is just repeating what is now old news.
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http://daringfireball.net/2010/09/facebook_phone
 
Facebook Movie, Facebook Music, Facebook Phone...

Hmm... I'm pretty sure the only people who will be purchasing such a device would be a 12 year old. I wonder if this means bye bye Facebook iPhone App...

Which I can definitely do without.
 
TheWatchfulOne said:
FaceBook is not just an App. FaceBook is the information concerning you and all your friends that is stored on their server. The app is just the front end that lets you access and manipulate that information. Their website is just another front end that (mostly) does the same thing as the app.

While this is not something I would be interested in purchasing, I can see it selling very well considering FaceBook's popularity. They already have a field for people to input their phone numbers and it is functional of the iPhone and most likely functional on other phones as well. The Palm Pre even has FaceBook integration built it. I could see this being quite successful if they get the hardware right.
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I'm talking about from the consumer perspective.... what I mean by "just an app" is that there's nothing that a facebook phone would do better than an iPhone or an Android phone.... what more do you need from facebook? What can it possibly do better?
 
Wasn't there just an article recently with PR saying they weren't planning a Facebook phone?

Dirty corporate liars.

Can't see it catching on too much when both iOS and Android have their own official Facebook solutions...wonder what carrier in the US.
 
If that's really true, it'll be a huge failure. Not because the iPhone is oh-so-great but because no one would ever need this. Who would buy a possibly stripped down Android clone, if the real Android phones are everywhere?! Also they'd be extremely late to the party.

Just a thought: They'd need their own app store too if they don't want to use Google's services. And where's Facebook Maps or would they use Bing? And there are so many other services they don't have (Calendar? Outlook Sync? a proper mail server?)
 
So can u have a twitter app on the facebook phone?

And what's going to happen if Facebook goes the way myspace?
 
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This is the garmin phone all over again. What's the point, when an iPhone or regular android phone is entirely capable of doing the one thing your phone is supposed to specialize in?
 
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