Facebook Mobile Phone

In accordance to the "sources" acquainted with the project, the Facebook mobile phone has a codenamed "Buffy,"  yes, after the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV show - and is a joint project between Facebook and HTC. It has said to run a modified OS version of Android that profoundly integrates with Facebook services end-to-end the phone and supports Facebook's HTML5-based application platform. Sounds similar to news we have heard for most of the past year.

Facebook alone recently picked out HTC, after also believing at the least one extra possible hardware collaborator — Korea’s Samsung. That means the products themselves are still a ways from hitting the market, potentially as long as 12 to 18 months.

The 12 to 18 months timeline is more exact for Facebook's second phone, this source says. That phone will likely to be built by Samsung, and it will break through in Q4 of 2012 or Q1 of 2013.

Phone-makers that were also once in the running to build a Facebook phone include LG and Motorola, before it was acquired by Google.

Plenty could still go wrongly and prevent Facebook from launching any phone, ever. Not everyone close to the project is optimistic.  One source close to people who worked at the project says he would be surprised to see a Facebook phone hit the market.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-facebook-phone-might-come-as-soon-as-april-2011-11#ixzz1el1OqAQ6