Last week we reported on Facebook hiring former Apple engineers in an effort to begin creating their own smartphone.
Today, Paul Amsellem, a marketing 'expert' for the Mobile Network Group, has said he predicts Facebook will buy Nokia in the next year on route to creating the 'FacePhone.'
The phone itself will hit the market within 18 months, and will run on Windows Phone 8.
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I guess I'm missing something, can someone enlighten me? If someone else (RIM or Nokia in this example!) build the phone, then use someone else's OS (such as windows) what on earth will make it a Facebook phone? A cheesy skin to the OS? Or wait, a dedicated 'share' button? Oooh I'm so excited! The same age group that would buy the 'Facephone' would say Epic Fail!
Competing with the likes of Samsung and HTC?? Perhaps Facebook and Mark Fuckerberg should consider opening a chain of auto repair stores since they like getting into stuff they know nothing about and stuff that is clearly already cornered in the marketplace by others.
