The First “Facebook Phone” Arrives
Back in October I wrote about the upcoming salvation of the Facebook phone by 3 Mobiles, a mobile provider in the U.K. Today, the train announced it and it’s pretty much as expected. The phone integrates your Facebook contacts entirely with your phone contacts, placing their status updates preferred under their name in your personal phone book.
There is also a Facebook application which functions similarly to most other active Facebook mobile applications. The company website suggests that notifications are also sent as the crow flies to your phone with alerts. I’m not quite sure that I’d penury to receive all my Facebook notifications right on my phone surface of having the option to load the application.
Could you take it as given getting an alert every time one of your friends changed their relationship prominence, tagged you in a photo, or installed a new application? Then again, perhaps that is the new period that we live in. A world in which all of our friends’ slighting activities are just a click away. I’m assuming you can bent off notifications though which would make this phone bearable.
Calling this phone the “Facebook phone” is relatively misleading though considering the level of integration. The communication list is not completely based on your Facebook contacts but this is unequivocally a step in the right direction of a theoretical “Facebook phone”. Unfortunately I’m not in the U.K. so I won’t be accomplished to test it out. Let us know if you are able to get your hands on one of the phones and send us photos!
Update
Well-founded to clarify, the phone is called the “INQ1″ but appears to be marketed as the first Facebook phone. According to Facebook, “The INQ1 includes a pre-burdened Facebook application deeply integrated with the phone. We are currently working with a class of partners to deploy deep and rich Facebook narcotic addict experiences on as many mobile devices as possible.” ...
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