Facebook to Enter Mobile Phone Market in 2011

[cumanzor]

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?)

The Facebook brand alone and some kind of seamless integration plus whatever specific features they can think of would make it work.

BUT, you can now have the same on Android, iOS and pretty much any popular mobile OS, so there is no point in spending resources for this.

 

[hwhalers]

And what's going to happen if Facebook goes the way myspace?

You dare insinuate that this fad won't become critical to western civilization and outlive every other fad?

 

[Surely]

^^^^ THE WHALE!

And what's going to happen if Facebook goes the way myspace?

I guess you'd buy a new phone? They aren't meant to last longer than 2-3 years anyway.....

 

[psychomonkey]

Facebook phone? Only if they use Palm OS. Facepalm anyone?

 

[ten-oak-druid]

No Ping? Forget it.

 

[Analog Kid]

This is why Facebook needs to go public-- so the shareholders can punish them for their stupidity.

 

[Analog Kid]

Facebook phone? Only if they use Palm OS. Facepalm anyone?

Beautiful. Well done.

 

[mattwolfmatt]

Funny that this leaked on a day when facebook was down on and off, all day long.

So will there be new privacy settings every two months to reset, which by default are set to broadcast my conversations on FM 90.1?

 

[hwhalers]

^^^^ THE WHALE!

Someone finally notices .

This is why Facebook needs to go public-- so the shareholders can punish them for their stupidity.

The remarkable, unmistakable scent failure is all over this concept. What's the upside to this, to anyone, apart from a few design firms?

 

[SockRolid]

KIN 2.0 anybody?

FaceKIN?

 

[wheezy]

Sorry Zuckerberg, Facebook just isn't that important, and I really don't think it's life is that long.

 

[HitchHykr]

What's next? a Twitter phone? This is silly.

 

[jwhite878]

This is why Facebook needs to go public-- so the shareholders can punish them for their stupidity.

ARGH beat me to it

 

[violaboy]

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The "facephone" will share all of your phone conversations, phone numbers, contacts, and all personal data with the world without your permission!!

 

[puffnstuff]

What's next? a Twitter phone? This is silly.

http://www.amazon.com/TwitterPeek-Tweeting-Lifetime-Service-Included/dp/B002R5AG50

 

[pmz]

They're idiots. Thats really all that can be said.

 

[E.Lizardo]

As the Borg collective continues to evolve...

 

[eye]

Facebook has peaked and will now slowly disintegrate like Myspace did. It's dumb like all social networking. It just takes people a few years to figure it out.

 

[Nebulance]

OK, so this is officially the dumbest thing I've heard/read all day.

I don't know how else to explain how I feel about it.

 

[manhattanboy]

Almost as stupid as those ESPN phones that came out, and flopped, a few years ago.

Yeah, but they had a cool ringtone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9zPqgNGoEg

As the Borg collective continues to evolve...

Protip: for your own protection, keep the star trek references to a minimum.

Facebook phone? Only if they use Palm OS. Facepalm anyone?

This was all over the Engadget post on this topic many days ago.

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?)

That's why they have Facebook money now. You can exchange it with people you meet on Facebook for things like, Face shils

 

[SandynJosh]

who would actually buy this?

The same people that also should have bought the Microsoft Kin.

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?

The facebook phone will be optimized for Farmville. No other phone will be able to withstand being pounded on for hours on in by 50 year old women going through "the change."

 

[cathyy]

edit: nvm

 

[iSee]

Wha?????

I can't understand this one at all... Surely a random, false rumor... Right?!?

 

[marksman]

You ever look back and remember when a company made their first major mistake?

Hello Facebook.


Maybe Wordpress should make a mobile phone too?

 

[Rot'nApple]

Almost as stupid as those ESPN phones that came out, and flopped, a few years ago.

Let's not forget Coke Cola's Music Store! How's that doing again?...

That's right, when it comes to, "It's the Real Thing" only ITMS fits that bill!