This article from the New York Times talks about the evolution of facebook. Marc Zuckerberg explains that he does not have any intention of bringing to the market an official Facebook-branded phone. Facebook is no longer just a social network website, is a company that is investing in all the technology they can. At the Mobile World Congress all the mobile companies present their newest products. An example of this will be HTC have presented two new cell phones that have incorporated Facebook applications. Other such as INQ Mobile has their own Facebook-devices.
As I said before and Frank Meehan remarks "Facebook is really more than a social network " because is making companies create products with the name of Facebook. The prize of the phones depends if you want them with a contract with the company or free. The "problem" of this kind of cell phones are, that you have to pay an extra bill to have wireless. If you have wireless on your phone, you can access to the internet and with that connect to Facebook. This is not the latest technology on cell phones, it is also an excuse to create a new type of market. This phones keeps you updated all the time. It means that when someone talks you on your social network, appears on the top of the screen with an alert.
Facebook said on his own website which in addition to the phones showed cased in Barcelona, more companies will create Facebook phones.
Hi,
ResponderEliminarWell summarized. Would you buy this phone? Why or why not? Do you think being connected to Facebook all the time necessary?
Look at this:
'prize of the phones depends'
price of the phones
Juan tries to transmit with this comment the idea that Facebook is more than a social network; it is a company that all the time tries to improve their applications and findings to give to users thousands of possibilities in the web. I'm agree with what Marc Zuckerberg says that they didn't have plans to create an official Facebook cell phone because I think it wouldn't be necessary because with any cell phone with internet you can download the Facebook application in a few minutes. Although the reality is that, INQ Mobile has created two Facebook mobile phones. I think that if Facebook creates this cell phone it would be nice for the people at the beginning but it wouldn't have success in the future if you can use Facebook without this special phone. Anyway these phones have been presented in the Mobile Phone Congress in Barcelona and as people could see they work really well because you can use the devices that you have at Facebook in your computer. I found a big contradiction that the creator of Facebook tells in public that he is not thinking on create a Facebook cell and later appear two different models of it.
ResponderEliminarI'm totally agree with Juan that is a normal project that lots of companies do to have more success attracting people attention and make bigger the name of the brand. If we want to know if it will have success... we will have to wait, the time will say it.
As Juan has said, cell-phones companies are searching for something that impacts to people. Nowadays the most amazing thing for the majority of peole is Facebook so companies just use it as a way to sell them products.
ResponderEliminarFacebook is more than a social network, it's company is thinking on produce Facebook Iphones, but I don't think it will be necessary as all cell phones has this application, and this is making Facebook more famous.
Marc,
ResponderEliminarGood comments, some common problems:
I agree *NOT* I am agree
be successful *NOT* have success
Ariadna,
ResponderEliminarComments are correct, but this is too short.