Is The Facebook Phone Finally Real (and Called Buffy)?

[Guest]

Speculation about a Facebook phone returned as All Things Digital reports that the company is working on a device code-named Buffy.

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[soo-nah-mee]

Um, no.
Just no.

 

[Guest]

The technicals are encouraging, just don't end up as Microsoft Kin, restricting the phone and might as well trash it.

Although the name needs work.

 

[LuckyDucky7]

There's no room for this.

I mean:

-Android-powered phones are nearly $0 on contract
-iOS devices are what all the cool kids want (no accounting for utility)
-BlackBerry... well, if you're messaging friends that's what you're using

-Most people who don't have a smartphone don't have one for a reason (either due to clumsiness/loss or it not being in the budget).

So this phone, unless it's a totally new carrier that doesn't charge a ludicrous amount of cash for Internet access, doesn't solve any problem and, more importantly, doesn't do Facebook any better than any other phone.

And these reasons are probably why Facebook said that they weren't getting into the market.

 

[RADIO_ACTIVE]

The FB UI makes me cry, I can only imagine what they would end up with if they made a phone...

 

[keyanf]

Now if only Joss could kill Facebook...

 

[Parsian]

eeww!!!!

 

[acadia11]

Seriuosly, is face book that important to people that they have to have a phone that's geared for it? WTF????

 

[acerace]

Who's that girl? What connection she has with this article? Just wondering.

 

[descendency]

Buffy is so early 2000s. They should have called it Edward.

 

[assasin32]

Surprise it took them this long to try to put such a thing out. Figure it would've been made a long time ago. Not saying this is a good thing but there is money to be made there I am just surprised it took them this long to figure it out.

 

[tanjo]

Facebook Phone is just fine.
Gellar is cute (then)

 

[xx_pemdas_xx]

[citation][nom]BlahBlahBlahBlahBlah[/nom]The technicals are encouraging, just don't end up as Microsoft Kin, restricting the phone and might as well trash it.Although the name needs work.[/citation]
I love my kin2om.... it can watch mpeg 4 videos (youtube) and i can side load pirated movies to it.

 

[techy74]

My only concern is that it is facebook. It seems soon as you get used to the layout, it changes and you have to learn where everything is all over again!

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]BlahBlahBlahBlahBlah[/nom]The technicals are encouraging, just don't end up as Microsoft Kin, restricting the phone and might as well trash it.Although the name needs work.[/citation]

true, but this is an actually facebook phone, not a phone with easy access to facebook, very big difference.

if this gets advertised on facebook by facebook, iphone may have a serious contender (as in just this one phone, unline android where they add every android up)

 

[qu3becker]

There's already the INQ Cloud Touch if you want a Facebook-centric phone based on android.

 

[kryzzay]

Why don't you fix the shit ass Android version of your app first before you go and make a phone of your own? You own iOS with your facebook app and Android too, now you want to own yourself Facebook? Seriously not required but feel free to waste billions of dollars that you really couldn't care less about.

 

[sinfulpotato]

[citation][nom]whysobluepandabear[/nom]She was in Buffy the Vampire something or another. Sarah Michelle Geller? IDK if that's the correct spelling, but I'm not about to waste 2 seconds looking it up on Google.[/citation]

I never even watched the show and can tell you, she is not a Vampire. The show was called Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Sheesh, you young whipper snappers, look up your 90's pop culture

 

[de5_Roy]

didn't one company already make a facebook phone (iirc it allowed users to access fb with a dedicated button or something) and facebook publicly denied any involvement?
i wonder what's next. twitterphone, google+phone...(not all android phones), linkedinphone, minecraftphone, farmvillephone.
one phone will rule all these phones - capplaycrysisphone (dubiously named cpcp - pronounced as sippysippy)!

 

[toastninja17]

Hey facebook, I love you and all....but there's already an app for that.