Facebook Home Is Now Available For Download From Google Play

Facebook Home, the new launcher for Android based phone which put the main focus on the social network and its services such as messaging, photo and other services by putting it on the centre of a user’s mobile devices. The Facebook Home is now available for download for Google Official Apps store the Google Play with one bad news though, this app is only available for a limited number of Android devices(HTC One X, HTC One X+, Samsung Galaxy S III and Samsung Galaxy Note II). This come just after Facebook rollout update to its Facebook Messenger Android app which bring Chat Heads functionality plus basic Android app with Facebook Home support. 

Facebook announced ‘Home’ earlier this month with the confirmation that the apps would be available in Google Play from April 12^th onwards. Home is also coming straight out-of-the-box on the HTC First which has been available for pre-order since April 4 on AT&T. The HTC First will also be hitting France and UK market this summer and could follow suit to other markets such as Malaysia and India.

You can see full specification of the HTC First here

Home is Facebook’s biggest shot at mobile and clearly show the company’s ambition to be the main platform for all of your communications, ever present, no matter where and what you are doing. CEO of Facebook call it “the next version of Facebook “. Other moves also point toward that this may extend beyond just Android too. It just remain to be seen. 

This clearly mean that even though Home is still limited in how many people can use it now – just the HTC First ,along with four other devices including two model from the world’s biggest smartphone maker, Samsung -  and with limited functionality, but if all the things go according to plan for Facebook, this could be just the beginning. 

Facebook also look likely to place an announcements on streams to signal the availability, perhaps targeting users of those four devices specifically or even targeting all of its Android users. Facebook’s own Mobile page has some 6.1 million likes. 

Source : TechCrunch

HTC's J Butterfly 1080p Smartphone Could be Heading to Europe?

New leaked photo of the HTC’s 5-inch J Butterfly smartphone have surfaced, prompting speculation that an official announcement regarding the European availability of this phone could be held on 6 December.

The J Butterfly which is the name of this latest HTC smartphone in Japan or the Droid DNA to U.S consumer is still without the specific name for the European market with HTC quick to deny rumors that it will be named as HTC Deluxe when it hits the UK market in near future.

In respond to a query on its Facebook page by a fan that might have seen the leaked image on GSMArena, HTC was quick to deny that the name ‘HTC Deluxe‘ not a part of its European list of upcoming devices.

"The Deluxe unfortunately will not come to Europe," read the response.

 The same source that provide the ‘HTC Deluxe’ photos to GSMArena also predict that the device will be announce in the early week of December.

The Deluxe/Butterfly J/Droid DNA are the world’s first smartphone that feature a 5-inch full 1080p HD display that by far the beat the most high-end smartphone available in the market at the moment including Apple’s iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S3.

The new 5-icnh display HTC device is reported to pack an amazing 440ppi pixel density which is super impressive compared to the latest iPhone 5 displays that only has 326ppi. However, given the large display possess by this HTC device, it would be positioned as a direct rival to the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 which has 267ppi.

Spec wise, the next HTC flagship handset will run on the latest Android platform and is expected to be powered by a Qualcomm 1.5GHz quad-core processor with 2GB of RAM with 16GB on internal storage, an industry standard 8-megapixel camera on the back and a 2-megapixel camera on the front plus a 1080p full HD recording capabilities.

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