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New HTC First with Facebook Home shell
In a special event on Facebook Executive Director of the world's most popular social network mark Zuckerberg created officially presented together with the Taiwanese company HTC smartphone preloaded with the First sheath Facebook Home.
Mr Zuckerberg said that a modern OS is built around applications, and Facebook first drew attention to people. Notably only that as a basis Facebook chose Android OS, decided to go more simple by not creating their own OS, which was mentioned by the media. She just replaced the Android home screen on the shell Facebook Home, which gives users direct access to the latest news and status of friends. Notifications are displayed directly on the home screen. There you can respond to the posts of friends.
Special attention is deserved by system of Chat heads, which is a chat that allows you to exchange messages not only through a social network, but also via SMS messages. When you receive a new message appears on the screen of the user's head. Most likely, that's why the messaging system was called Chat heads.
As mentioned above, the home screen displays new photos, notes, statuses and news of friends. By double clicking you can put "Like" to a particular record, and with the single comment. In Facebook Home it is also worth noting a separate page for favorites and the app bar which is on the right.
Soon Facebook Home will appear in the Google Play store and is compatible with most smartphones and tablets running Android version 4.0 and above.
As for the smartphone HTC First, the novelty is equipped with 4.3-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels (341 PPI). In the heart device is SOC Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8930 AA, a configuration which includes a dual-core processor (1.4 GHz). The amount of RAM is 1 GB, and the volume of non-volatile memory – 16 GB. Slots for memory card no. It is also worth noting the presence of a 5-MP rear camera (CMOS sensor, which implements the back-illumination technology BSI, optics with a maximum aperture of f/2.0 and video recording high-resolution Full HD). For video calls there is a front camera resolution of 1.6 MP.
The HTC First smartphone works in networks of UMTS/HSPA/HSPA 850/900/1900/2100 MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and LTE 850/1900 MHz.
The description also listed the following characteristics: a complete set of sensors (digital compass, gyroscope, accelerometer, proximity sensors and light), modules NFC, Bluetooth (4.0) and Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n), receivers of satellite navigation GPS and GLONASS, two built-in microphone, speaker with amplifier, port micro USB 2.0 and battery capacity of 2000 mAh.
The Taiwanese company focuses on the insignificant size of the smartphone, comparing it with a credit card. The dimensions of the smartphone equal 125,98 x x 65,02 of 8.89 mm, weight – 124 g first glance HTC First looks simple enough, and its value at contract conditions of the operator AT&T is $ 100.
Source: /users/104
Mr Zuckerberg said that a modern OS is built around applications, and Facebook first drew attention to people. Notably only that as a basis Facebook chose Android OS, decided to go more simple by not creating their own OS, which was mentioned by the media. She just replaced the Android home screen on the shell Facebook Home, which gives users direct access to the latest news and status of friends. Notifications are displayed directly on the home screen. There you can respond to the posts of friends.
Special attention is deserved by system of Chat heads, which is a chat that allows you to exchange messages not only through a social network, but also via SMS messages. When you receive a new message appears on the screen of the user's head. Most likely, that's why the messaging system was called Chat heads.
As mentioned above, the home screen displays new photos, notes, statuses and news of friends. By double clicking you can put "Like" to a particular record, and with the single comment. In Facebook Home it is also worth noting a separate page for favorites and the app bar which is on the right.
Soon Facebook Home will appear in the Google Play store and is compatible with most smartphones and tablets running Android version 4.0 and above.
As for the smartphone HTC First, the novelty is equipped with 4.3-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels (341 PPI). In the heart device is SOC Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8930 AA, a configuration which includes a dual-core processor (1.4 GHz). The amount of RAM is 1 GB, and the volume of non-volatile memory – 16 GB. Slots for memory card no. It is also worth noting the presence of a 5-MP rear camera (CMOS sensor, which implements the back-illumination technology BSI, optics with a maximum aperture of f/2.0 and video recording high-resolution Full HD). For video calls there is a front camera resolution of 1.6 MP.
The HTC First smartphone works in networks of UMTS/HSPA/HSPA 850/900/1900/2100 MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and LTE 850/1900 MHz.
The description also listed the following characteristics: a complete set of sensors (digital compass, gyroscope, accelerometer, proximity sensors and light), modules NFC, Bluetooth (4.0) and Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n), receivers of satellite navigation GPS and GLONASS, two built-in microphone, speaker with amplifier, port micro USB 2.0 and battery capacity of 2000 mAh.
The Taiwanese company focuses on the insignificant size of the smartphone, comparing it with a credit card. The dimensions of the smartphone equal 125,98 x x 65,02 of 8.89 mm, weight – 124 g first glance HTC First looks simple enough, and its value at contract conditions of the operator AT&T is $ 100.
Source: /users/104
