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Facebook Home pre-release APK leaked

Advertisements Turns out we don’t have to wait until April 12 to test-drive the Facebook Home. Paul at Modaco has posted the APK for Facebook Home (they are actually three APKs) to install on your Android phone. As this has been taken out from a pre-release HTC First ROM, it is quite buggy and Chat […]

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Samsung, Sony, Huawei, Lenovo to make Facebook Home-powered phones

Advertisements In addition to the launch of Facebook Home, the social giant also introduced Facebook Home Program for handset manufacturers. As a part of this program, mobile-makers can approach Facebook to make Facebook Home-powered devices like HTC First that adhere to the performance guidelines set by the company. According to Facebook, some of the major […]

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Facebook to put ads in Facebook Home, just not now

Advertisements Well, this isn’t surprising at all. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed in Q&A session after the Facebook Home launch that there will be ads in Facebook Home one day, just not at launch.  There is no word on when this “one day” will come, but Facebook is likely to wait for a significant uptake […]

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Facebook Home to only support Android 4.0+ devices

Advertisements When Facebook unveiled its new home-screen replacement app “Facebook Home” for Android, it skipped a small detail in the main announcement and even the press release. Apparently, Facebook Home is only compatible with phones powered by Ice Cream Sandwich and newer Android versions, the social giant revealed in Q&A following the event. If your […]

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Facebook makes ‘Home’ official, available beginning April 12

Advertisements Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today took to the stage in California to announce their new home-screen experience for Android users called ‘Home.’ In simple terms, Facebook Home is like any other Android launcher that you have seen so far during your Android days with the soul of Facebook. In Facebook’s words, it is a […]

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Watch Facebook’s Android event here [Live]

Advertisements For those of you, who were living under a rock or something, Facebook is holding a press event in about an hour and will announce something related to Android. Thanks to all the leaks in the recent few weeks, we have some idea of what to expect today. Here is a break-up of things, […]

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Facebook Home UI screenshots leaked online

Advertisements It is no secret that Facebook is going to unveil its Android home-screen replacement (or launcher) app – Facebook Home – tomorrow at a press event. The leaks have coming from all over and after the alleged press-render of the first phone to come pre-loaded with Facebook Home – HTC First, we have the […]

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HTC First, the rumoured phone to feature Facebook Home, appears online

Advertisements Shows it will be available in multiple colours We have been hearing about the rumoured HTC built phone that is going to be the first device to feature Facebook’s upcoming home-screen replacement. Well, it is likely to be known as HTC First, and not Myst, which was earlier rumoured, and was probably an internal […]

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