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Bloomberg Reports Facebook Building Android Smartphones

destinyland writes "Reports are surfacing of a Facebook-backed smartphone running Google's Android system, built by INQ (who also manufactures a phone for Skype). GigaOm's Om Malik says he's been aware of the project 'for quite some time,' and Bloomberg News (linked above) reported that Facebook will release two AT&T smartphones in 2011, first in Europe and then in America. (Adding that 25% of Facebook users access the social networking site with their wireless devices.) " Whether it's pure semantics or pure misdirection, as of yesterday, Facebook acknowledges work with INQ, but describes the collaboration as customization, rather than a phone of their own.

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  1. Why are we so fucking concerned about facebook? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    There are right now 3 articles in the slashdot front page about facebut/zuckerberg. THREE. Just WTF?

    Facebut is a stupid website for fucking assholes. Zuckerberg is a disgusting Jew. How is this fucking news for nerds?

  2. Re:privacy..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    The "average consumers" are the attention-starved, spoiled-rotten, whiny, self-centered crotch-fruit of goddamn yuppies.

    These are the little fuckers with tons of mommy and daddy's disposable income and attention spans so short they gobble up attention like that one disgusting fat sea lion at Sea World out to devour every fish thrown into the pit. They give greedy J__s like Zuckerberg the impression that everybody wants to give up their privacy for attention. Their pitiful lives are so pathetic that they must revolve around gross voyeurism and confusion of positive and negative attention. Facebook is the meatspace equivalent of following somebody around and peeking through their home windows rather than engaging them in face-to-face conversation.

    The consumers of Facebook are but retarded infantiles whose brains have been turned to mush from years of exposure to princessy MTV-fueled "be famous quick" spring-break fantasies. They are dumb, puerile, oblivious, deluded, bed-wetting, teet-sucking motherfuckers. They are America's future.