Facebook Making Smartphone With The Help Of Apple’s Ex-Engineers

Exclusive — By Naveen Vaidhya on May 29, 2012 at 10:46 am

Facebook does not want to leave any stone unturned to arrive in the mobile world with a big bang. After unveiling plans to raise mobile revenue, this ruler of social networking is employing Apple engineers to develop Facebook smartphone. The firm has already employed more than ½ a dozen ex-Apple hardware and software engineers who have worked on iPhone project, and 1 has worked on iPad project, the teams and briefed on the plans reported.

Also in 2010, gossips flowed stating Facebook is thinking to venture in hardware. Once again in 2011, reports recommended that Facebook is associating with HTC to create Facebook-centric gadget. However there was no assurance regarding these reports.

Very recently, a research has disclosed that people utilized the mobile form of Facebook most frequently and Zuckerberg’s team looks to have taken it severely. After 2 earlier tries at working on smartphone, Facebook may release an own-branded smartphone.

Representatives of Facebook did not assure or reject the rumours however referred to an earlier statement it offered previous year, we are working around the whole mobile industry; with hardware, operators’ manufacturers, application creators, and OS providers, say reports.