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HTC First runs stock Android if you disable Facebook Home

article published on 6 April, 2013

HTC has confirmed that their new Facebook Phone, the "First," will actually run stock Android underneath the Facebook Home user interface. Perhaps more notably, Facebook Home can be disabled with a few clicks, leaving you with a stock Android phone if you ever get sick of Facebook experience. HTC has not built a device without HTC Sense (or other overlays) since 2010's G2. The company ... [ read the full article ]

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Morreale

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6. April 2013 @ 21:53

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Might not be so terrible then if the phone is cheap...

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Mrguss

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7. April 2013 @ 14:58

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Call it: HTC "First", 'cos is the first one to go backwards on specs?

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Morreale

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7. April 2013 @ 16:51

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Originally posted by Mrguss:
Call it: HTC "First", 'cos is the first one to go backwards on specs?

I guess every phone under $600 is backwards.

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Picazzo

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8. April 2013 @ 10:15

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Please will someone throw a spit ball at Zuckerberg....BLOATWARE!!!!

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Bozobub

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8. April 2013 @ 10:27

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Bloatware, surely, but the ability to turn it off, as noted above, makes this the least expensive new phone I can think of with a "vanilla" Android interface, as noted above, which definitely has its charms.

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KillerBug

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8. April 2013 @ 10:38

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Wow...if Facebook phones are really Nexus phones with an overlay that is easily turned off, then I hope to see more Facebook phones.

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hearme0

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9. April 2013 @ 14:14

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This will never make it. Facebook is dying and it just doesn't know it yet.

If a Windows phones can't compete with the likes of IPhone and Galaxy line then a FB phone certainly won't.

FB IS LAME!!

FB JUNKIES ARE WORSE!

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Bozobub

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9. April 2013 @ 16:14

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Again, you're missing the point here, hearme0. I agree; FB is incredibly annoying, but you can TURN IT OFF. Once you do that, this is really an inexpensive Nexus phone, which has no direct equal in the current market.

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Bozobub

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10. April 2013 @ 02:14

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