Facebook Hopes to Release Smartphone
Facebook is aiming to release a smartphone by next year
Facebook is expanding its efforts to create a smartphone and aims to release one by next year, The New York Times reports. According to the Times, Facebook employees, engineers, and others familiar with the matter say that the company has added to the group working on the project, codenamed "Buffy," and that it has hired "more than half a dozen former Apple software and hardware engineers who worked on the iPhone, and one who worked on the iPad."
The report quotes one Facebook employee who says that Mark Zuckerberg "is worried that if he doesn't create a mobile phone in the near future that Facebook will simply become an app on other mobile platforms." Last month, DigiTimes claimed that Facebook and HTC are partnering to create a new Android smartphone with "a platform exclusive to Facebook," and the Times says that the project is still in the works.
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