Ondrej Holzman The news that Facebook is preparing its own phone has partially come true. Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg, the head of the world's most popular social network, presented Facebook Home, a new interface for Android devices that changes the established order, and at the same time, in conjunction with HTC, showed a new phone designed exclusively for Facebook Home.
The main currency of the new Facebook interface is the way it looks at working with a smartphone. While current mobile devices are primarily built around various applications through which we communicate with others, Facebook wants to change this established model and focus primarily on people instead of applications. That is why it is possible to communicate with your friends from any place in Facebook Home.
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"The great thing about Android is that it's so open," Zuckerberg admitted. Thanks to this, Facebook had the opportunity to integrate its innovative interface deep into the operating system, so Facebook Home practically behaves like a full-fledged system, although it is only a superstructure of the classic Android from Google.
The locked screen, main screen and communication functions are undergoing fundamental changes compared to the previous practices in Facebook Home. On the lock screen there is a so-called "Coverfeed", which shows the latest posts of your friends and you can immediately comment on them. We get to the list of applications by dragging the lock button, after which the classic grid with application icons and the familiar buttons for inserting a new status or photo appear in the top bar. In short, social features and friends first, then apps.
When it comes to communication, which is an essential part of Facebook, everything revolves around the so-called "Chat Heads". These combine both text messages and Facebook messages and work by showing bubbles with your friends' profile pictures on the display to notify them of new messages. The advantage of "Chat Heads" is that they are with you across the entire system, so even if you have another application open, you still have bubbles with your contacts in any place on the display, to which you can write at any time. Classic notifications about the activity of your friends appear on the locked screen.
Facebook Home will appear in the Google Play Store on April 12. Facebook said it will update its interface regularly at least once a month. For now, its new interface will be available on six devices – HTC One, HTC One X, Samsung Galaxy S III, Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note II.
The sixth device is the newly introduced HTC First, which is a phone made exclusively for Facebook Home and will be offered exclusively by US mobile operator AT&T. The HTC First will come pre-installed with Facebook Home, which will run on Android 4.1. The HTC First has a 4,3-inch display and is powered by a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor. This new phone will also be available from April 12 and starts at a price tag of $100 (2000 crowns). HTC First is just about to go to Europe.
However, Zuckerberg expects Facebook Home to gradually expand to more devices. For example, Sony, ZTE, Lenovo, Alcatel or Huawei could wait.
Although the HTC First is intended exclusively for the new Facebook Home, it is definitely not "the" Facebook phone that has been speculated about in recent months. Although Facebook Home is only an extension for Android, Zuckerberg believes that this is the right way to go. He wouldn't trust his own phone. "We are a community of more than one billion people and the most successful phones, not including the iPhone, sell ten to twenty million. If we released a phone, we would only reach 1 or 2 percent of our users with it. This is not attractive to us. We wanted to turn as many phones as possible into 'Facebook phones'. Hence Facebook Home,” Zuckerberg explained.
The executive director of Facebook was also asked by journalists after the presentation whether it is possible that Facebook Home will also appear on iOS. However, due to the closedness of the Apple system, such an option is unlikely.
"We have a great relationship with Apple. Whatever happens with Apple, however, must happen in cooperation with it." Zuckerberg admitted that the situation is not as simple as on Android, which is open, and Facebook did not have to cooperate with Google. "Because of Google's commitment to openness, you can experience things on Android that you can't anywhere else," said the 29-year-old head of the popular social network, continuing to praise Google. “I think Google has an opportunity in the next two years because of the openness of its platform to start doing things that are much better than what can be done on the iPhone. We would like to offer our service on the iPhone as well, but it's simply not possible today."
However, Zuckerberg certainly does not condemn cooperation with Apple. He knows very well about the popularity of iPhones, but he also knows about the popularity of Facebook. "We will work with Apple to deliver the best possible user experience, but one that is acceptable to Apple. There are a lot of people who love Facebook, on mobile they spend a fifth of their time on Facebook. Of course, people also love iPhones, just like I love mine, and I'd love to get Facebook Home here as well." Zuckerberg admitted.
Zuckerberg also revealed that he would also like to add other social networks to his new interface in the future. However, he does not count on them for now. “Facebook Home will be open. Over time, we would also like to add more content from other social services to it, but this will not happen at launch."
I don't want to offend anyone, but a person who buys this is a complete moron or at least a Facebook addict. I'm a fan of technology, but fb is the modern plague of humanity.
May I ask, what is the plague on a communication service that connects over a billion people around the world?
And it's sad that you have to scold people who buy a piece of software that you haven't even tried yet - but you already know everything you need to know. This file speaks of your limited thinking. Either that or you simply don't have any friends on Facebook anymore - then I would understand your frustration. In any case, you have to admit that Facebook Home is a great product that you probably won't use. But your remark about "jerks" is probably closer to your level of thinking. No.
I don't know if plague is the right term, but there is definitely a large group of people who are upset that the Facebook user is a de facto product and that FB is being stuffed everywhere. (Interesting - these are mostly highly educated people and dare I say above average intelligence.)
We're not going to lie, the motivation for creating this SW is mainly to keep people connected to FB 24/7 and therefore better monitorable. If we divide FB into separate services (chat, wall, event management, gallery...) they are not bad in themselves, but mixing them together with the company's well-known approach to user data creates a dangerous cocktail. (Yes, this is not just about FB.)
That it's enough not to use FB and it doesn't concern you at all? But it concerns! FB creates so-called shadow profiles for unregistered users. And if you know an "addict", you can be sure that he is already tuning the data there for you. Are you surprised someone doesn't like it?
I agree, I must be a person who loves technology, but on the other hand, I very much stop direct communication or meeting people, but when I write to ten people about a beautiful sunny day, if I can't go for a walk and they say it's because of Facebook (yes, mostly because of it and to people on it) it stinks in front of the monitor instead of meeting friends outside in the fresh air, so I feel really bad. I don't want to sound like some kind of greenpeasak, but people have changed significantly for the worse in the last x years, mainly because of services such as Facebook and so on.
"people have changed significantly for the worse in the last x years, mainly because of services such as Facebook and so on" - is our generation really worse than the generation of communism, fascism and hundreds of millions of murdered people? You are forgetting history a bit if you compare Facebook and what people were like 50-100 years ago.
1) carefully read the comment you are commenting on... 2) don't comment on the car with a goat, you can immediately solve what kind of people there were in prehistoric times, in Rome,... if you weren't so arrogant, after someone destroys your Facebook as a company or a service, then would compare the time before Facebook, i.e. 10 years ago... a time when communication was mainly face-to-face, possibly by phone call, when children did not sit on Facebook and text with their 10-year-old peers, but ran around outside, etc.
Well, I'm commenting on your comment. Logically, if you say that people have changed for the worse in the last x years -> people were better x years ago. So I'm just putting it in context, if you think murders, totalitarianism, or the Middle Ages or wars or what exactly are better for you (than spending time on Facebook)? Today, in Western culture, the state of affairs for humans is the best in history.
I find it a little short-sighted to blame everything on 'new' technology. Do you know that arguments like the one you use (lack of face-to-face communication, direct contact) were used by anti-book writers in the 16th century? They said that books are a dangerous new medium that will destroy society. The same later with television and now with Facebook. It is enough to look at what is happening today, it has happened many times in history and you will see that these are empty fears, because people do not change. Only the situation they are in changes. But I understand that this crap is cool today, just like criticizing Facebook, saying that Twitter is better, being a coffee snob, etc. I just find it embarrassing, in a few years you'll look back and wish you'd thought about it yourself they were just taking the opinions of the crowd.
I don't have Facebook and you could learn to read whole sentences again, mostly the beginnings. I had Facebook and it's the biggest piece of crap in decades. A communication service that connects people all over the world? I wonder where the e-mail goes or do you need icq, skype... I don't insult people who use fb, facebook would be a great service if there weren't all the crap around, such as groups, pages, and constant updates of anything that absolutely annoys me I'm not interested... That's all...
And now I have to put it on the main screen of the mobile phone? Great, I want shit on my phone like this one is doing this, that one is using the toilet, or that this one took a picture with a really awesome trident in a cubicle. And I'm not even talking about potential ads.
That's what I meant, I have nothing against people on Facebook, only against him himself... Regardless of the fact that I wrote that the person is a jerk OR a junkie on Facebook, if you use FB Screen, then in my opinion you may not really be the jerk - fill in the rest yourself ;)
Otherwise, I must love twitter, but if a Twitter Screen came up, my eyes would turn the same - I use certain services, but do they look bad when I look at my phone? Not really, thanks...
I'm looking forward to the fact that children in 20 years will have Google-eyes micro after birth and every person will have advertisements in their eyes every day. I'm really looking forward to it.
HOWGH
I see you edited your original post. It talks a bit about how you stand by what you say once.
Guys, I hope you DON'T have to install Facebook Home? Because you talk about it as if it was legally given and you had no choice. Just because you don't want to use the product doesn't mean it's bad, right? I find it narrow-minded to dismiss it and curse it.
Yes, I know people like you: they start Twitter, cancel Facebook, start drinking coffee and talk like snobs about how Twitter is the best and Facebook is for idiots. I have to tell you something - you're about 3 years behind, now that's embarrassing.
I myself use both Twitter and Facebook, because I understand that they are completely different services. So saying that you prefer Twitter and that's why you don't use Facebook is a bit off, like saying that you don't like running and that's why you drink Pepsi. Nonsense? Exactly.
I ignore your comment about sheep, mostly people say that when they run out of arguments, I'm used to it :-) And I hate ads myself, I wrote an article about it (if you're interested: http://honzadvorsky.com/blog/2013/2/27/app-dot-net-the-future)
so I understand Facebook's problem with ads. But unfortunately, most people do not understand that it is a Facebook Home product. Not about what Facebook is like. But sticking to the topic is clearly way above the intellectual level of most people here.
I'm sorry, but since you are constantly trying to humiliate me personally, I will end the conversation with you. Everyone here will confirm that you are the one causing the conflict, whereas I tolerate the other opinions as well
Do you tolerate something? It is necessary, as you write: "a person who buys this is a complete jerk to me"
Poor thing, run after the crowd and they will help you. But you were the first to call the others a jerk, not me :-)
Robin Martinez:
you are absolutely right man! FB is a snooping plague!! The snooping and poking around in the form of plug-ins to most websites is something so sneaky.
I don't wish anything bad on anyone, I'm just going to make an exception here, Curkberg, just to get rid of you, you're a whole generation of people who know the color of their "friends" stool.
If they put it on iOS for me, so be it, this would reliably get me out of iOS. Like otherwise I'd stick to it like a tick, but not this, I'd go right away if it can't be turned off there. I'll buy a mobile phone for 500,- just for calls and sms, if it's the worst.
I use Facebook and I agree :-D
On the one hand, it's a wonderfully thought-out invention and something quite new, but on the other hand, it turns your mobile into something terribly annoying and irritating. I don't really understand who would care about this. We can move all our "friends" from Facebook right into our house. This is really off.
"Condition of something annoying"? Did you know that notifications haven't changed at all from the regular Facebook app, so when your phone is locked you'll get exactly as many notifications as you want? I don't see any change from the normal application.
It seems to me like the first advisory design on Android and I think it will be quite a draw for something like HTC First. Pretend you can't see Facebook, but be aware of what you're all using - such awkward poses.
Me Facebook Home will come with a great product, especially the chats mainly through applications are the best and I hope it will come to iOS. If not, then Apple can play with the outflow of customers for the first time. For the first time since 2007, teenagers will not want an iPhone under the tree, but a Facebook phone. So I think Apple has no choice.
But really, respect to Facebook for Graph Search and thus Facebook Home. Google is crying now because Facebook has become a hundred times more interesting company.
Facebook fanboy alert!
But seriously, the first proper design on Android? Do you know how many widgets and launchers there are and what can be done with them?
Here!
http://mycolorscreen.com/
I don't know exactly how many widgets and launchers there are, do you? How much exactly?
Facebook Fanboy :-D I'm already an Apple fanboy, a Facebook fanboy, a Tumblr fanboy, a Nest fanboy, a Skoda fanboy, ... Vis, the fact that someone likes certain products does not necessarily mean that he is a fanboy. But I see that this is happening today. Do you disagree with me? You must be a fanboy.
Try to use arguments, not embarrassing remarks.
But come on...as he was originally supposed to help FB college students, now he is being condemned the most by such educated people. It's a bakery that does more harm than good. Yes, I admit that it can be tempting for young people (that's just one evil), but let's not forget that even the biggest boom is behind FB, and young people won't be here for long. Today, other communication programs are used in mobiles with free calls, which is better than some headers.
FB that is more interesting than Google? Good joke.
"Educated people"? Who is needed? Names?
If Facebook is bad for you, why are you using it? And you don't use it? So how can it hurt you? :-)
Yes, Google practically just sucks data for advertising, but doesn't give anything back. Facebook brought Graph Search and Facebook Home, both quite complex projects, Graph Search is a huge project that can compete with Google's big data capabilities.
I understand that it is now time to criticize the company's decisions. But please, people, think for yourself and don't just share what others pay you for. Try not to be afraid to speak your mind even when the majority has the opposite opinion, huh?
Dear Honzo, you beautifully spammed the entire discussion zone under the article, commented as much as you could and you can be completely calm - we understand! So pack your Facebook in your backpack and travel back where you came from. The discussion is for expressing an opinion, not for spamming and self-actualization. Start a blog about it. In the end, I must have made a mistake, it's not Facebook home that's irritating, it's Honza Dvorský.
I expressed an opinion, you just don't like it. The discussion works in such a way that people argue facts and talk about a certain topic. What do I make of this, other than how it is now 'cool' to criticize everything about Facebook? Almost no one here uses objective facts or figures, which makes me sad. Everyone just curses and grimaces. No result.
I understand :) if facebook was useful for me I would be happy :) but it's useless to me so I don't need it :) but I understand your opinion
I agree… I read the whole thing and polka was his thing. Honza - I have fb, I use fb, I'm a teenager, but the idea that in a few years when I look at my watch at school when the bell rings and I see 10 nudges from my classmates doesn't appeal to me. Yes, it's a great software, you're right, but for someone (like me, and don't be offended, but also for everyone else here for now :D) it's completely useless to see statuses from friends when they're watching a video on YouTube or just looking at the navigation :) I don't need it then see no nonsense that my age group puts on fb :) …. but I also understand your opinion, so please don't get attached to me :) my classmate is addicted to fb, so she will definitely appreciate it :) but for me it's more important that she has an old android, so it will be annoying, but if she has it, I'll take it anyway that another classmate is forever alone and does not belong to the collective :)
but I understand her :D
I understand, if I had such uninteresting friends, I would probably use my name on Facebook too :-)
I mainly don't understand why I see an article about android on a website about fruit products?
Is it written somewhere that it is ONLY about apple products? And it's not about Android, it's about Facebook.
Interesting, but it looks like a faithful copy of the iPhone :-D really dementia !!!
What is it like an iPhone?
This is not a product for normal thinking people, but for teenagers who are on Facebook even when they are sitting with their friends in the pub. Does Google know your location? facebook knows your location and also knows who is with you.
This will be a product for people who have Facebook as a virtual diary.
Honza Dvorsky is fighting for Facebook here, but he doesn't know what Facebook is and what he knows about it.
Um, I'm glad you know what I know. Congratulations!
By the way, I'm not bashing Facebook. I'm just advocating Facebook's product called Facebook Home because I think it's well made and will be a huge success in my opinion. Unfortunately, separating the company and the product is too complicated for many people, man.
You're young and stupid, but maybe you'll grow out of it.
FB will introduce WP social hub for Android and we should be excited?
The integration of FB AND TW is perfect in iOS6, so there is no need for something similar
we're back in kindergarten in the sandpit again and Honza Dvorský is an annoying, clever child with whom no one wants to play.o)))
Whatever it is with FB and everything around it, for now everything is according to the taste of each comrade.o) when profiles are mandatory instead of sheepdogs, then we can start a resistance.o)
For now, it's just McDonalds - everyone knows that they make you fat, that it's not healthy, that it's correct to say that, but everyone goes there at least for a shake sometimes.o))))
You're right, it's the right thing to say, so everyone says it here, I don't even know why :-)
Honestly, I don't mind that it's only for Android, I'm fine with what's on my iPhone :D
You idiot, what kind of discussion is this when half of the comments are from a single guy (Honza Dvorský)? Is this some kind of delusion, or a perverted desire to always have the last word?
The others. But I like to discuss things. I can't blame the fact that the last ones mostly fall off quickly. I would like someone who can stand it and has good arguments, that would be fun at least. Here, of course, people still take it personally and then start to relax - just don't discuss anything factually :(
So what about you Dalibor? What is your opinion on Facebook Home?