HTC First, the first smartphone with Facebook Home

The existence of a Facebook Phone has been one of the biggest hits of recent years. Mark Zuckerberg has always denied that anything like that was in development, but there were all the conditions of the market. Moreover Facebook, like Google, lives for the majority of advertising and, as in the case of the Mountain View giant, even for the social network would not be a bad idea to convey their services through the device of the economy in order to widen their of users. In fact at the end something happened but not in the way many if they were imagined. A smartphone fact at the end has arrived but is in all respects a product HTC, while Facebook has only developed an app able to offer a user experience superior to that offered by all the other solutions currently available and capable of thus transforming all Android phones in as many Facebook phone.

HTC First, as the name implies, however, is the first device on the market to offer it pre-installed. It is one of the mainstream smartphone, which will debut this summer in the United States with the provider AT&T, priced at only $99.99 . However, if you decide to purchase the unbranded then the price will rise to $450 . Characterized by soft lines and very sinuous, HTC First also offers a good mix of technical features, from the main screen, a Super LCD 4.3 INCHES with the resolution of 1280 x 768 pixels which has a density of 341 PPI well, protected by Gorilla Glass 3.

Inside there is a SoC Qualcomm MSM8930A Snapdragon dual core processor with 1.4 GHz and Adreno 305 GPU, 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB of storage, expandable via microSD cards. Upon completion we also find a 1.6-megapixel front camera, a 5 megapixel rear camera and modules Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS and NFC chip . The battery is 2000 mAh, while the operating system is Google Android 4.1 Jelly Bean . The main new feature, however, is as we said Facebook Home . The latter is essentially an app full screen that replaces virtually all normal third party apps developed so far for this OS and makes them useless. Home Facebook fact will not start but will always be active in full screen, as BlinkFeed HTC One.

In Facebook Home you will then receive all notifications and messages on the social network but also complement HTC First notifications of missed calls, calendar, email , etc.. while some of these other smartphones will remain the preserve of the old notifications. Facebook Home therefore is proposed as an alternative to the interface standard Android, a kind of alternative home screen from which do everything but in a different manner, once again, therefore, the parallel with BlinkFeed is more than valid. As in the case of the rest of those who want to return to the home screen will not have to do anything but traditional long press the home button. Maybe fans of the first hour of Android, won over by his total configurability and by the fact of being "open" will not appreciate the arrival of an interface so pervasive and all-but it is said that it can not instead attract other types of users so far reluctant to approach the Google operating system.