In 2013, Facebook smartphone will be available to clients of the Social networking giant.
In 2010, facebook was reported to have been “secretly” building a smartphone – although this particular project is said to have broken down.
Facebook recently admitted it was struggling to make money out of its growing mobile audience.
It is in this regard that the Facebook had been hiring several smartphone engineers—as noted by some facebook employees.
It is also said that Facebook has hired experts who worked on the iPhone and other smartphones.
Facebook recently floated on the stock market, has also just launched its own mobile application store.
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.
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”.
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