Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/27/zuckerberg_says_facebook_phone_makes_no_sense/
Zuckerberg: Facebook phone "makes no sense"
Hardware rumours rumpled
Posted in Phones, 27th July 2012 14:25 GMT
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Whispers of a dedicated Facebook phone have been crushed by head honcho Mark Zuckerberg, who says it "wouldn't make much sense".
The Facebook handset rumours [1] have been circulating for years, with HTC the latest hardware producer touted for the phone's manufacturing process.
Such word of mouth should always be taken with a pinch of salt, though, and Zuckerberg's insistence shows why:
"There are a lot of things that you can build in other operating systems as well that aren't really taking - that aren't like building out a whole phone, which I think wouldn't really make much sense for us to do," he said at Facebook's latest earnings call [2] yesterday.
F off?
The Facebook blower was recently tagged to hit shelves in 2013 [3], according to "employees, recruited engineers and other people" who either know something Zuckerberg doesn't, talk a lot of hot air, or revealed information the topdog wants to remain secret for now.
While we can probably expect plenty more 'Facebook-integrated' handsets - ones like the HTC ChaCha [4] – the whisper of dedicated Facebook-branded hardware has been silenced. For now, at least. ®