The Facebook Phone Is Dead … Or Is It?
Just when you think rumors of a Facebook phone were squashed once and for all with the social network’s release of its Home Android overlay and Home’s HTC First flagship phone last year, Patent Bolt made an interesting discovery.
Just when you think rumors of a Facebook phone were squashed once and for all with the social network’s release of its Home Android overlay and Home’s HTC First flagship phone last year, Patent Bolt made an interesting discovery.
Patent Bolt unsurfaced a patent from 2011, indicating that Facebook is or was working on a smartphone with a unique feature: side-mounted touchpads.
Patent Bolt wrote:
These devices will be able to identify the presence, location, and movement of more than one touch input, such as two- or three-finger touches.
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