Facebook unveiled its most ambitious attempt yet to
enter mobile computing without a phone of its own, introducing a new app
that replaces the home screen on some Android smartphones. Here are
some facts about the 'Facebook Home' app:
The 'Home' app will be launched
first on HTC First phones and from April 12 it will available for
download for free from Google Play.
With
Home, everything on your phone gets friendlier. From the moment you
turn it on, you see a steady stream of friends’ posts and photos. In
simple words, after installing the 'Home' app, a user will see images
from Facebook updates cover the entire screen, while status updates and
icons of friends float on top.
The app has a feature called
'News Feed', that enables you turn on your phone or press the home
button, you see a stream of posts. Cover feed puts the spotlight on
whatever friends are sharing now—photos, status updates, links and more.The Home app also has a feature
called 'Chat Heads' that allows users to see small icons of friends when
they send a Facebook or text message.
The
new app lets users comprehensively modify Android, to prominently
display their Facebook newsfeed and messages on the home screens of a
wide range of devices.
The idea behind the software is to bring Facebook content right to the home screen, rather than requiring users to check apps.
Notifications about calls, events, updates and other apps appear on your home screen and stick around until you need them.
Zuckerberg said features like
cover feed will be ad-free initially, but he envisioned advertising as
another form of content that will eventually be integrated.
Offering Facebook messaging,
social networking and photos on the very first screen that Android users
see could divert attention from the panoply of services, such as search
and email, which generate advertising revue for Google.
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