HTC First with Facebook Home

HTC First with Facebook Home

It's known that HTC is always the first to come with new mobile technology. HTC was the firts mobile phone supporting a 3D display screen, and the first mobile with a Quad-Core Chipset and many other achievements. Today, HTC First is the first mobile that supports the homescreen from Facebook for Android OS which is known as Facebook Home.
The Facebook-centered HTC First got officially unveiled. The Android smartphone will be available exclusively on AT&T in the United States from next Friday, April 12 for $99.99 with a two-year contract

Naturally, the most important feature of the HTC First will be the integration of the freshly announced Facebook Home launcher into its Android OS. Facebook Home is built with your social networking cravings in mind. You can find out more about its features later in this post.





Hardware-wise, the HTC First features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 chipset with a dual-core CPU and 1GB of RAM. A 4.3" 720p display, 5MP camera, and access to AT&T's LTE network are also part of the smartphone's specifications. The Android version on tap will be 4.1 Jelly Bean.



In Europe, the HTC First will be offered by Orange and EE in the coming months. No pricing and availability have been set though.



Now you're wondering what is Facebook Home and how it works.


Facebook Home will be officially lunched on April 12, and can be downloaded from Google Play. It's only and Android application that will support the following devices:

HTC First ( Integrated ) , HTC One (Future) , HTC One X , HTC One X+ , Samsung GALAXY S III , Samsung GALAXY S4 (Future) , Samsung GALAXY Note II


Note that only Facebook Home is only integrated in the HTC First and its downloadable from google play for the other device


t's a launcher which replaces your normal homescreen with "Cover Feed" - a tool which gives you a gesture-operated aggregation of your friends' posts, pictures, statuses, etc. It appears to act as any launcher out there. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the team behind Facebook Home worked hard to make it feel better than just any other app, which means we can expect Home to work seamlessly or like a native app.


Here's Cover Feed in action - holding a finger over an image will open it up in fullscreen, while double-tapping will Like the picture.

Facebook Home integrates with your messaging too. It introduces a feature called "Chat heads" - upon receiving a message you'll get a floating notification showing you the image of the sender. Chat Heads styling is applied both to normal texts and Facebook messages alike. Here's a demo.

Facebook Home has some gestures that are designed to help with notifications too. Holding a finger over a single notification will stack all of them and give you the option to dismiss.


Here's a demo of the notification system running on the HTC First.

When do you think HTC First will hit the Lebanese market?










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