HTC Facebook Smartphone Rumors Return

Here come the Facebook smartphone rumors again, with the latest reports saying HTC is developing a customized smartphone with the social network, possibly debuting as early as the third quarter of 2012.

Here come the Facebook smartphone rumors again, with the latest reports saying HTC is developing a customized smartphone with the social network, possibly debuting as early as the third quarter of 2012.

Digitimes reported that Google’s move to partner with Samsung on the next-generation Nexus smartphone, rather than with HTC, which produced the Nexus One, led HTC to turn its attention to Facebook.

Sources told Digitimes the new, Android-based smartphone will feature a platform dedicated to Facebook, which will enable users to access all of the social network’s functions.

HTC debuted two smartphones in February 2011 with Facebook features and blue F keys, the ChaCha and Salsa (pictured), but they were only released in Europe and Asia.

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