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at an event held at Facebook headquarters CEO Mark Zuckerberg put an end to some persistent rumors today we're finally gonna talk about that Facebook phone or more accurately we're gonna talk about how you can turn your Android phone into a great simple social device with its new product that's only available on certain Android phones the social network makes a grab at precious real estate on your mobile device the home screen is really the soul of your phone you look at it about a hundred times a day it sets the tone for your whole experience and we think that it should be deeply personal Facebook home transforms your home screen even if your phone is locked into a slideshow of photos and status updates showing you your newsfeed without ever launching the Facebook app if you're not a rabid Facebook user then you might find that this experience kind of hijacks your phone and offers up a learning curve that you have to overcome in order to use it with another feature chat heads messaging also infiltrates your phone buttons with the sender's profile picture pop up no matter which app you're currently using just by tapping on this chat head it pops me into the conversation and think that's so cool and so special about this is that this is all happening right over the article I'm about to read and write over the app I'm using so no matter what you're doing you can just quickly pop into these conversations a phone was unveiled but Facebook isn't jumping into Hardware the new HTC first will be preloaded with Facebook home this is not a fancy phone it doesn't have whistles and bells it's not particularly pretty to see it doesn't have fancy accents or anything like that I think it's gonna be a really tough sell the only nice thing is the price the phone will run a hundred dollars but Facebook addicts might consider the device priceless in San Francisco I'm Sumi das cnet.com for CBS News you