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zuben el genub

zuben el genub

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Supposedly these phone will connect between FB users using VOIP. But if FB user calls a non-user, the phone will revert to a carrier's service. Article wasn't specific about which carrier.

My question would be as to what info FB could get on non-users? Could FB monitor a user's carrier account? In that case, that would be giving FB info that non-users and FB haters don't want to give FB.

If people like and use FB, that doesn't bother me - but FB money-grubbing new practices are disturbing for non-users. FB should be a voluntary service for those that want it only!
 
There's a new "facebook phone" rumor almost every week for the past couple of years. None have ever surfaced as a real product. I'll believe it when I see it for sale in a store...where I absolutely won't buy it unless it's the last phone for sale on the planet.
 
This is the first I've heard if the rumors, if it actually happens, I don't see many people buying it except the ones who feel they need everything that's brand new.

That's why we have fb apps, auto upload features, widgets etc.

It would be just a waste if money imo
 
I wouldn't buy it, but I'd be interested in seeing it, I would like my phone to integrate better with facebook with out having to install 3rd party apps.
When syncing contacts from Facebook, you don't get full resolution pictures and they look horrible when you view them on the contact page. I use to have a contact on my home screen that when I clicked it, it would list the latest status from facebook, but the latest status rarely updated when it should have.
Simple things like that would make me enjoy my android experience more, though I know google does not care about facebook integration since they have g+ which I still haven't gotten use to nor seeing myself using it as much as facebook
 
Knowing Facebook, the UI would likely be 50% advertisements or more. I wonder if Facebook would be dumb enough to limit or discontinue the Facebook app for Android once the Facebook phone is released. I wouldn't buy a Facebook phone.
 
Don't tell my wife about this phone! I got her aboard the Nexus train and can't risk an fPhone disrupting our technological continuity.
 
I'd be worried if FB started to force users to sync contacts. Google is bad enough. So far, Google has been more discreet. That new policy of FB, where they can guarantee that your post will be sent and received for extra money (I saw $100) is also troubling. Do they mean only for users, or once FB gets contact lists, everyone else?

FB is supposedly starting a chat app like Apple. The phone might do away with profits for carriers. Would carriers support it or sell it in a case like that?

I don't want it any which way. I'm of the opinion that no REPUTABLE business solicits or bothers you - unless you have worked with them or opted in.
 
It appears that htc is going to be involved in the Facebook phone. So, unless htc or FB are going to write a completely new OS, this will be stock Android with a custom skin and some apps provided by Facebook. I'm curious to see what the launcher will look like. A Facebook feed widget and an app drawer button?
 
That is what killed Helio. Everyone initially jumped ship for Facebook for one reason: FarmVille

This Facebook Phone was done before, the HTC Status...a reject blackberry wannabe
 
I seem to remember the htc Cha Cha. Wasn't that supposed to be a Facebook phone? Or was that just a "BB killer"?
 
Someone mentioned those phones in these links:
'Facebook phone' may ring true April 4 (Update)

The idea of a Facebook Android version makes my head hurt | Android Atlas - CNET Reviews

What I can see coming is that you will have to be registered for one of the systems at birth and be stuck with it your whole life. MS, Apple, Google, Amazon all want to be your all in all. If you don't post or bother, you will be subject to nagging and no escape since the systems want to control your house, car, purchases and social life.
MS did have or were touting programs for control of heat and timed appliances.

Already have been articles that if you don't post on FB or Twitter, you are akin to a terrorist.

Here's one (too lazy to look for more, but do remember seeing from other sites)
Are Non-Facebook Users

This might be true from the viewpoint that the feds do troll FB for terrorist activity, and if you don't post, you are suspect and have something to hide. You are exhibiting anti-social behavior at the most.
 
zuben el genub said:
Someone mentioned those phones in these links:
'Facebook phone' may ring true April 4 (Update)

The idea of a Facebook Android version makes my head hurt | Android Atlas - CNET Reviews

What I can see coming is that you will have to be registered for one of the systems at birth and be stuck with it your whole life. MS, Apple, Google, Amazon all want to be your all in all. If you don't post or bother, you will be subject to nagging and no escape since the systems want to control your house, car, purchases and social life.
MS did have or were touting programs for control of heat and timed appliances.

Already have been articles that if you don't post on FB or Twitter, you are akin to a terrorist.

Here's one (too lazy to look for more, but do remember seeing from other sites)
Are Non-Facebook Users

This might be true from the viewpoint that the feds do troll FB for terrorist activity, and if you don't post, you are suspect and have something to hide. You are exhibiting anti-social behavior at the most.
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That article is rubbish. My old man doesn't have a Facebook account, and he's as far from a terrorist as you can get.

I have an account, but I don't use it anymore. I suppose Big Brother is now watching me because I'm antisocial. :rolleyes:

I have more important things to worry about, like raising my kids, and helping on the forums. ;)
 
zuben el genub said:
Here's one (too lazy to look for more, but do remember seeing from other sites)
Are Non-Facebook Users

This might be true from the viewpoint that the feds do troll FB for terrorist activity, and if you don't post, you are suspect and have something to hide. You are exhibiting anti-social behavior at the most.
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I know many employers trawl Facebook as well, looking for things. In fact I know of two people in the UK, that I knew personally who were fired from their jobs, for some stuff they posted on FB. Photos of student all night wild parties toking from bongs, something like that could well damage a person's future career prospects.

I do have a FB account, but there's nothing there though, and only one friend AFAIK. Can't remember the password for my FB account either, so not likely to be signing in at any time soon. However I'm very active on a couple of Chinese social networking sites, Tencent QQ and Weixin, so if they want to find me, that's where I am. :)
 
dreadnatty08 said:
Ditched Facebook last year after many years of having an active account. Haven't looked back since and won't anytime soon. ;):)
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What took you so long? I tolerated the endless cookies, thinly disguised market research and other soul-sucking for maybe a week before pulling the plug.

The fact that some of my relatives appear to have forgotten their manners while online made the decision a "no-brainer"...heh... It's one thing to have the occasional Drunk Uncle during the holidays, but not having a half dozen of them 24x7x365.25, being total boors and puking on my wall. :puke:
 
Whelp, now they have a mandatory 2 week waiting period before they can delete your account. You log in just once in that time and you start over. :rolleyes:
 
If some devs from Play would stop using FB to host their FAQ, I'd ditch it, too.

The new blurb says be connected 24/7. I don't even like the Vulcan around 24/7 and I'm married to him! I gotta have time to go out and watch birds, clouds, ant piles which would bore most everyone else to tears.

Facebook seemingly coming to Android home screens - Neowin

Now if this detracts from Google's advertising revenue------
 
nickdalzell said:
Anyone remember the Helio? Aka the MySpace phone? It lasted a year before it ended up in the vaporware bin.

I still remember the cheesy ads for it, 'omg! Its got MySpace Mobile!'

http://www.forbes.com/sites/sethpor...u-can-learn-from-the-ill-fated-myspace-phone/
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Vaporware is something promised that is never delivered.

I had that phone, the Helio Ocean. That was actually an excellent phone, it integrated all of your email accounts (I had 8 at the time) and texting, along with the matching instant messaging for MSN, Yahoo, AIM, etc) into a convenient, unified messaging center. Neither iOS nor Android had that level of integration at the time, and you could easily out-text and mail a Blackberry.

After being out for over a year, it was replaced with the Ocean 2 for a year, and a short while later, Helio was bought by Virgin Mobile. Six months later, they refused to support any Helio customers unless they signed the worse VM contract and bought a new phone.

I never ran MySpace lol.

I never saw the Ocean marketed as the MySpace phone. They did say, it's not a phone, it's a Helio though.

I don't know where Forbes got its information. I'm looking at that old phone right now, and it doesn't have the MySpace button they claim existed.

And I'll back up what pasta said, the Facebook phone rumor crops up more often than the car that will run on water. When they failed a few years ago to materialize, HTC brought out a phone with a Facebook button.

I don't know what's more pathetic - that Facebook thinks that they can break into mobile communications this way, or that some people would actually use it and think that it's a good idea.

Either way, it's not happening.

And HTC having tight Facebook integration and widgets that give content has been around for years.
 
The Helio ocean was a later model iirc. There were models with a MySpace button early on I recall seeing them (overpriced) at Wal-Mart at the time. It wasn't marketed as the "MySpace Phone" that was just the moniker given to it after it flopped, akin to the Nokia N-Gage being nicknamed 'taco phone' when it, too, flopped.
 
The great thing about [my] android phone is..... no facebook.

I know it was meant to be a platform for all things social media blah blah blah, but it's a google phone. We're *just about* comfortable with google, they redeem themselves with good products & seemingly 'less evil' than facebook. I predict new OS that is less dependent on big brother will be the next new big thing, but android will keep it's loyal following - as long as google behave themselves, unlike facebook!

They might get far enough to make a phone - but I do believe even the most enthusiastic facebook disciples know it's all a bit fake :D ;).
 
nickdalzell said:
The Helio ocean was a later model iirc. There were models with a MySpace button early on I recall seeing them (overpriced) at Wal-Mart at the time. It wasn't marketed as the "MySpace Phone" that was just the moniker given to it after it flopped, akin to the Nokia N-Gage being nicknamed 'taco phone' when it, too, flopped.
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Ah. The article you linked showed the Ocean, that's how I got confused. Helio definitely tried to sell social stuff before, I do vaguely recall that now.
 
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