Official Facebook Phones in Partnership with HTC To Launch As Soon As Next Month – Report

With Facebook’s 600m users it was surely only a matter of time before the king of the social networks decided it wanted to enter the mobile phone fray, and according to City AM that time could well be as early as February.

Believed to be manufactured by phone hardware behemoth HTC, the Facebook phone (we hope that’s not what it will be called) is expected to be announced during next month’s Mobile World Congress and will be powered by a customized version of Google’s Android operating system. It’s anticipated that Facebook’s popular news feeds and status updates will form the core of the interface, possibly living on the handset’s homescreen. HTC’s ability to ‘skin’ Android is believed to be one of the main reason Mark Zuckerberg’s startup turned billion Dollar company decided to plump for the Taiwanese company as a partner.

Interestingly Joe Hewitt is believed to be one of the key players in the development of the handset. Those with long memories may remember Hewitt ceasing development of Facebook’s iPhone app last year citing frustrations with Apple’s ecosystem as the root cause. Is this what the man with the golden touch has been working on ever since?

Former Googler Matthew Papakipos is also on the team according to City AM.

Is this just another step toward world domination for Zuckerberg? Love him or loathe him, the guy knows how to make products people want to use. Time will tell if the mobile phone world is the next to be conquered by the Zuck.

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Android 2.3.1 Gingerbread Now Available for iPhone, iPod touch

After just a couple more weeks of work, we have made tremendous progress and brought the recently released Android 2.3 Gingerbread to the iPhone 3G.

iPhone 3G is the first device on which Android 2.3 has been installed successfully using the same OpeniBoot software in previous ports. In case you don't know, OpeniBoot is an open source software based on iBoot that allows jailbreakers to insert their own code such as Linux kernel into iPhone and iPod touch.
Android 2.3.1 Gingerbread has been finally released for iPhone 3G, 2G and iPod touch (1st-gen). Android ports for iPhone 4, iPad and iPhone 3GS are said to be coming soon.



However this is a preview release only, and therefore it is not distributed via popular Android installer package called Bootlace. You will have to download the binaries and install it manually using the instructions posted here.

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Data glitch hits Windows Phone 7 handsets

Microsoft is investigating a glitch on some of its Windows Phone 7 handsets which is causing huge chunks of 'phantom' data to be sent and received automatically.

The glitch deals a serious blow to Microsoft’s ambitions to storm the smartphone market with its flagship Windows Phone 7 portfolio.

Windows Phone 7 users have reported on various forums that up to 50MB of data being sent from their phones, without their permission. The problem seems more widespread in the U.S.

One user reported: ‘I went and looked at my AT&T account online and noticed that my phone was sending huge chunks of data seemingly in patterns. For instance on November 21-24 it sent between 30 and 50MB of data at 10:41pm each day and Dec 1-4 it sent between 30 and 50MB of data at 9:41am each day.

'On December 23rd I turned on airplane mode so my phone could no longer send data. I turned airplane mode off briefly on December 23rd and the phone sent 400MB of data. I called AT&T yesterday, December 28th, but they said that there was nothing that they can do to figure out what was happening on my phone.’

A Microsoft spokesman said the company is investigating the problem.

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Sony Ericsson Playstation phone photo leak

Pictures of Sony Ericsson’s long awaited Playstation smartphone have been leaked by Chinese website IT168.

The phone, dubbed the Xperia Play, appears to run on Android 2.3, with Sony Ericsson’s proprietary Android skin.

A Playstation app allows users to access the gaming function of the phone, with games controlled either using the built in gyroscope or the traditional Playstation buttons.

The phone also sports a 1GHz Snapdragon Qualcomm processor and 512MB of RAM.

Sony Ericsson has yet to name a launch date for the phone. Since it did not turn up at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, all bets are on it launching at the Mobile World Congress next month.