Thursday, March 16, 2017
HTC and INQ Cloud Touch Facebook button
HTC and INQ Cloud Touch Facebook button
Facebook has consistently denied that it was making a phone. They only talks about providing data that can be used in every aspect of a mobile phone, rather than building a phone itself. The aim is to provide an elegant experience, not beautiful hardware.
Henri Moissinac is a former Sr Director, Head of eBay mobile, now as Facebooks Head of Mobile Business. He graduate from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, PhD in Computer Science. He enjoy creating, developing and scaling businesses, products and teams. Always with a strong product and technology scope. He had the chance to combine successful entrepreneurial and corporate experiences in different countries and cultures, both in day to day operations as well as at the top management level. He love difficult challenges involving technology, fun products and building high performance organizations.
Henri Moissinac, , said We want to have every user in every market using Facebook were investing in smartphones and at the same time as in mass market phones because we believe with great features and great integrations, every phone can become sociable. Many different form factors, many different experiences in collaboration with any manufacturer who wants to use their software.
INQs two models the Cloud Touch and the Cloud Q, with touchscreen and keyboard respectively offer Facebook in their DNA, according to the companys co-founder Ken Johnstone. We didnt put a Facebook button on because our users dont think Im going to look at Facebook. It was important that its an authentic, comprehensive Facebook experience.
Soon variety of phone makers creating Facebook phone-like experiences, in some cases endorsed by Facebook from the perspective of using its logo and services. Web rumours suggest that HTC the Taiwanese smartphone maker will bring out at least one Facebook-phone, and Facebook itself essentially confirmed its existence late in January. Now already February, According to the FT.com sources, they will instead have a dedicated Facebook button to act as a shortcut to the social networks services.
Motorola manufacturers claim the devices with Facebook button are a step up from previous attempts to integrate social networks into phones, such as (NYSE: MOT - news)
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