Possible strategy for a so-called "Facebook Phone" that I came up with
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Re: Possible strategy for a so-called "Facebook Phone" that I came up with
#2I think Facebook should cozy up to Mozilla and use Boot2Gecko. Facebook's strength is in their web presence, and by leveraging a web-oriented phone, they could offer something that doesn't compete directly with other handset makers.
Re: Possible strategy for a so-called "Facebook Phone" that I came up with
#3I think Facebook should cozy up to Mozilla and use Boot2Gecko. Facebook's strength is in their web presence, and by leveraging a web-oriented phone, they could offer something that doesn't compete directly with other handset makers.
If they release a phone, they're competing directly no matter what.
Re: Possible strategy for a so-called "Facebook Phone" that I came up with
#4I wouldn't take that seriously. The guy is most likely some bored teenager posting to reddit with an iPod Touch or something.
Re: Possible strategy for a so-called "Facebook Phone" that I came up with
#5Says the Skype website: "Skype is not a replacement for your telephone and can't be used for emergency calling." It's also not possible to port an existing phone number to Skype.
Re: Possible strategy for a so-called "Facebook Phone" that I came up with
#6Reminds me of these guys:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helio_(wireless_carrier)
and their TV commercials in which there was always a teenager shouting "it's got MySpace mobile!"
Re: Possible strategy for a so-called "Facebook Phone" that I came up with
#7> Graphene is fundamentally vanilla Windows Phone, except with all Windows/Microsoft branding removed in favour of Facebook
Not a chance. Microsoft would never compromise their branding. They're not THAT desperate yet, and their still in a stronger position than Facebook in terms of having money to throw around.
> phone functionality swapped with a custom Skype UI (integrated with Facebook contacts)
You'll never get the carriers to agree with that. Not yet. Even Apple couldn't do it.
> For data service, Facebook makes a deal with one carrier in every region on Earth to become a "dumb pipe" of unlimited 4G/3G, negotiates a reasonable globally consistent rate, and handles billing with users (acting as a middleman between users and carriers, effectively becoming its own carrier with borrowed infrastructure).
Again, for the same reason, it's extremely unlikely that carriers would agree to this on any level. Not yet. They've still got a few dying gasps yet.
> In the end, we get a Facebook-controlled and Facebook-powered "Facebook Phone" which shuns legacy telephony technology and seamlessly moves between regional 3G/4G and Wi-Fi networks (and makes Facebook, Microsoft, and Nokia a ton of money).
I still disagree that Facebook are in any position to heavy-hand away the branding of either Microsoft or Nokia. Especially Microsoft. They're not going to hand over the OS they spent a lot of effort developing for no recognition, even if it makes them tonnes of money in licensing.
It's a good idea, but I don't think it's likely at all in this climate.
Re: Possible strategy for a so-called "Facebook Phone" that I came up with
#8I think Facebook should cozy up to Mozilla and use Boot2Gecko. Facebook's strength is in their web presence, and by leveraging a web-oriented phone, they could offer something that doesn't compete directly with other handset makers.
Mozilla would curl up, sell/give their assets to charity and die before partnering with Facebook. Boot to Gecko is free, open source, and arguably more "open" than Android. There's no need for a partnership.
Mozilla and their leadership care very much about privacy and freedom. Facebook does not jive with that at all.
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#9I feel like I may have missed something with all of this new talk about the Facebook phone.
About a year ago, it was announced that Facebook had partnered with HTC and would be releasing a phone in 18 months. I believe it was reported to run on a forked version of Android with an HTML5 front end (presumably to avoid the software update issues that Google is facing)
Is there any reason to believe that's changed? I feel like they still have 6 months before I really expect to see anything
Re: Possible strategy for a so-called "Facebook Phone" that I came up with
#10> Graphene is fundamentally vanilla Windows Phone, except with all Windows/Microsoft branding removed in favour of Facebook Not a chance. Microsoft would never compromise their branding. They're not THAT desperate yet, and their still in a stronger position than Facebook in terms of having money to throw around. > phone functionality swapped with a custom Skype UI (integrated with Facebook contacts) You'll never get…
> Microsoft would never compromise their branding.
Seems that Sidekick and Kin are counter-examples to that statement.