Rumors of Facebook creating their own phone has been rekindled.
According to the New York Times, the leading social network in the world
is supposedly having another go at building their own smartphone, but
this time they’re pulling out all the stops. The report details that the
social media company is grabbing smartphone talent by the bucketful,
specifically former Apple engineers that worked on the iPhone and the
iPad.
According to the report from the New York Times, Facebook’s chief
executive peppered a former Apple engineer about the inner workings of
smartphones, which included questions about chips used in them. The
motivation behind the push is clear to the people involved an unnamed
Facebook employee said that “Mark is worried that if he doesn’t create a
mobile phone in the near future that Facebook will simply become an app
on other mobile platforms.”
There have been attempts to closely integrate Facebook into
smartphones, like the HTC ChaCha (pictured above) – in fact, HTC still
has an ongoing collaboration with Facebook to create a smartphone,
codenamed “Buffy”. Whether people would buy a smartphone made by the
social networking leader is still up for debate.
Source: New York Times
