popular social network site FACEBOOK hopes to release its own smartphone by next year 2012.as the newly public social networking giant looks to boost its revenue in the mobile online market, the new york times report monday.
the company has hired more than half a dozen software and hardware engineers who have worked on apples bestselling iphone and one engineer who has ipad experiance. the paper said, citing employes and other unnamed sources
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the has also expanded a group working on a partnership with taiwan's htc to creat smart phone codenamed buffy a project first revealed last year by technologyblog all things digital.
one former apple engineer who worked on the iphon and as recuited said he had met with facebook chief mark zuckerberg
who then peppered him with questions about the inner working of smartphone , the report said.
"mark is worried that if he doesnt create a mobile phone iin the near future that facebook will simply become an app on other mobile platforms: a facebook employee told the new yoork times.
when asked for comment facebook neither confirmed nor denied the report.
our mobile strategy is simple. we think every mobile device is better if it is deeply social" it said in a statement emailed to AFP.
we're working across the entire mobile industry: with operators, hardware manufacturers to more peaple around the world
facebook intial public offering this month raised a record $16 billion but has sparked fury, and lawsuit, amid concerns that key information about the outlook for the company might not have been made available
the company said earliar this mont thart it was launching an app centre for mini programs that pluig offering such as piterrest or drow something in to the leading social network. which has more than 900 million memberworldwide.
via: yahoo news and AFP
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