Word has been getting out that there could soon be a Facebook phone. According to rumour, the huge social network is working with another party to help design, create, and launch a Facebook phone. The undertaking is said to be top secret, even within the company itself.
Techcrunch, the technology website, has reported in depth on the rumour about Facebook creating its own phone and has identified Joe Hewitt, the man responsible for developing all of Facebooks’s iPhone applications as the man now in charge of creating software for the rumoured Facebook phone. It should also be remembered that Hewitt was a guiding force behind creation of the Firefox browser.
Despite all the talk to the contrary, Facebook heartily denies the plans for their own Facebook phone, saying that they are deeply and progressively involved in integration with current phone manufacturers and that their challenge lies in making phones more social, not physically creating phones.
Another Facebook employee, Matthew Papakipos, has been identified as working on the Facebook phone as well. Papakipos worked on the Google Chrome browser before moving to Facebook. Facebook representatives say that these two men are at work on the earlier mentioned integration projects, but not on the development of a phone.
In this high tech age of thriving competition and secrecy, it is difficult to separate rumour from truth and fact from fiction. It is however, notable to remember that Techcrunch, who began reporting on the Facebook phone, also broke the stories about development of Google’s first phone in the face of strong denial by that company.
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