{{In 2013, Facebook smartphone will be available to clients of the Social networking giant.}} <\/p>\n
In 2010, facebook was reported to have been “secretly” building a smartphone – although this particular project is said to have broken down. <\/p>\n
Facebook recently admitted it was struggling to make money out of its growing mobile audience.<\/p>\n
It is in this regard that the Facebook had been hiring several smartphone engineers\u2014as noted by some facebook employees. <\/p>\n
It is also said that Facebook has hired experts who worked on the iPhone and other smartphones.<\/p>\n
Facebook recently floated on the stock market, has also just launched its own mobile application store.<\/p>\n
The App Center currently offers links to Facebook-enabled apps within Apple’s iOS and Google Android stores but developers will soon be able to write apps to be placed exclusively in Facebook’s store.<\/p>\n
It quoted a Facebook employee as saying the site’s founder Mark Zuckerberg was “worried that if he doesn’t create a mobile phone in the near future… Facebook will simply become an app on other mobile platforms”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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