Facebook unveiled Facebook Home app,
which is a suite of apps that delivers an entire Facebook experience
to your smartphone. Facebook Home isn't a new phone or operating
system. It's just a set of apps that act as a "skin" that
operates on top of the existing Android OS on your smartphone.
The apps become the "home"
for your smartphone. In short, your device's home screen is turned
into a "Cover Feed" that shows a slideshow-like stream of
full-screen images from your Facebook friends with status updates
that are layered on top of the pictures and scroll continuously. This
allows you to see information from your Facebook friends, even when
the phone is locked. Because the Home apps are integrated into the
Android operating system other notifications will also show up on the
"Cover Feed" including e-mails, missed calls, and text
messages.
It allows people to engage in multiple
conversations at once, and conversations via Facebook chat or SMS
without opening a separate app.
Facebook Home will be available for
download from the Google Play store starting April 12. Right now,
Facebook Home is restricted to a select set of HTC and Samsung Google
Android devices. The HTC phones that will initially get access to the
app are the upcoming HTC One, as well as the One X, and One X+. You
can also get it on several Samsung devices, including the Galaxy S3,
Galaxy Note 2, and upcoming Galaxy S4.
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