Facebook is the world's largest social network, which first appeared in 2004 as a site for Harvard University students. Much has changed since then, and today a public company of the same name issues shares and partners with mobile phone manufacturers. There are a lot of rumors around such cooperation, which regularly report that the company is developing its own smartphone.
A very large part of the users of the social network logs into it from their cell phones, so the interest of Facebook owners in mobile applications has always been great. This is evidenced, for example, by the most expensive acquisition of the company in its history - in April 2012, the Instagram photo service was bought for one billion dollars, which is focused on use in Apple mobile devices (iPhone, iPod, iPad). In addition to software, Facebook's management is also interested in hardware - for several years there have been reports in the press about the planned release of the company's own smartphone. On the Internet, you can even find several options for the concepts of a new smartphone, prepared by enthusiastic designers.
This summer, even such a reputable news agency as Bloomberg reported on the collaboration between Facebook and the Taiwanese mobile phone manufacturer HTC on a new smartphone. It refers to anonymous sources, and dates the release of the new device to the middle of next year. The agency's report also named three former Apple employees who, according to reporters, have been tasked with upgrading the Android mobile operating system for HTC's Facebook smartphone.
However, at the end of July 2012, there were reports that the chairman of the board and creator of the social network, Mark Zuckerberg, denied rumors that the company was working on creating its own smartphone. The quotes say that the company is instead planning deeper integration of Facebook with the operating systems of mobile devices of other companies, such as Apple. Therefore, the ChaCha model of a mobile phone from HTC, presented at the Mobile World Congress in early 2012, remains the only embodied device that has anything to do with the mythical smartphone. And that's only because it has a separate button for invoking the Facebook application.
