When will Facebook introduce a phone?

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When will Facebook introduce a phone?

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kruijs in Technology » Consumer Electronics
Currently Open, suspends 12/31/2013 20:00 (in 12/31/2013 20:00)

Before 2013

0.2% →

In Q1 2013

0.8% →

In Q2 2013

5.3% →

In Q3 2013

8.4% →

In Q4 2013

23.8% →

after 2013 or never

61.5% →

Background

Employees of Facebook and several engineers who have been sought out by recruiters there, as well as people briefed on Facebook’s plans, say the company hopes to release its own smartphone by next year. These people spoke only on the condition of anonymity for fear of jeopardizing their employment or relationships with Facebook.

The company has already hired more than half a dozen former Apple software and hardware engineers who worked on the iPhone, and one who worked on the iPad, the employees and those briefed on the plans said.

This would be Facebook’s third effort at building a smartphone, said one person briefed on the plans and one who was recruited. In 2010, the blog TechCrunch reported that Facebook was working on a smartphone. The project crumbled after the company realized the difficulties involved, according to people who had worked on it. The Web site AllThingsD reported last year that Facebook and HTC had entered a partnership to create a smartphone, code-named “Buffy,” which is still in the works.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/facebook-tries-tries-again-on-a-smartphone/?ref=technology

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