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what's up everyone John Rechy from technobuffalo here at the 4 review for you of Facebook home as demonstrated on the HTC first this is the launch version of facebook home on the very first device shipping with the software right out of the box so Facebook has promised monthly update so as it improves and if you just get added be sure to augment this review let's go and get started all right so let's go ahead and get started so this is my experience with facebook home on the HTC first this was the launch version and a very first version of facebook home facebook has said that they'll improve it on a monthly basis all update this review as new features come out and certainly as facebook homme qui download and other devices the experience might vary a little bit so to give you guys a full disclaimer this was used for a little over four and a half days facebook home on the HTC first alright so let's start with the you i will say the UI is really really clean facebook engineers did a really wonderful job with it so the basic idea is that your lock screen is your home screen so if you unlock the phone you don't have a password on it what you're going to see is essentially your home feed that you can scroll through on a very cool sort of looking way so you can do a few things here if you want to see the image that's sort of scrolling behind the status update if you long press you can see what that looks like if you want to like something you can double tap it if you want a comment you can hit that little comment button down there you can also like via that thumbs up so if you tap the screen you can get a little picture of your facebook icon if you hold that down sort of the basic UI is going to happen so on the left to go jump right into facebook Messenger it looks pretty similar to facebook Messenger on facebook or iOS if you swipe up you're going to go to apps and if you go over to the right you're going to go to your most recently used app or action I just go and jump into apps real quickly things look a little bit different here so you've got sort of shortcuts or favorites here in apps these aren't all the apps you have you continue to scroll over to the left this is we're going to get your traditional android list of applications it's going to show you what everything is on your phone notifications here I really slick as well reminds me kind of like what webos used to be you can just throw them away and slap them off green you can stack up and throw them away they're a little bit obtrusive right in the middle but I found myself really enjoying it actually probably one of my favorite features a facebook home they did a really nice job with it another cool feature is chat heads and this is one that's making its way to a ton of other devices including even iOS so you can be used even when Facebook home is turned off and at least on the HTC first or fully integrated with SMS it's kind of a cool way to see who you're chatting with you can open up both the applications and still have that chat head there you can click it and go right into that message and reply when you're done with that you could swipe it right down on the screen into that act it just looks very cool doesn't add any more functionality than a traditional SMS app would but it really does look very nice alright so we've talked about the way you I look sound performance in what you can do but there are a few problems so Facebook set out to make Facebook experience right on your phone it certainly succeeded with that but the problem for me is that this is also a phone so dialing a number should take so many steps want to make a phone call for example I got to take this I got to go up to the top and Fitz is over there I got to go and select phone then I can go ahead and a dial it's too many steps to do basic phone functions for me and for being a phone that's meant for facebook uploading a picture also takes many steps so I want to access the camera button I got to drag this good facebook i can fly camera from here or there and then select it and also multitasking is pretty much removed with facebook home so know what you're getting into if you want to experience that it's just going to be facebook central and not using your phone for much else in yeah that's also you just fine if use your phone for a lot of other things anything that's not facebook takes a lot of additional steps i can be a tad on the annoying side so the verdict here it's very visually appealing facebook engineers in a really nice job making us look gorgeous and they certainly succeeded there but for me I don't need my whole phone to do what an app can do now certainly the facebook app isn't as beautiful as what it looks like here but i can still scroll through my home field i can still like photos and then i can close it when i'm done and do it ever else I want to do on my phone chat heads is a very nice feature and I like the fact that i can use it even when facebook home is turned off it's a very novel new way to approach SMS and i get facebook credit for trying something new I also liked it to doing monthly updates but we'll see what those updates are going to be permeate commitments to continue to improve the experience something that should absolutely be applauded for me though it's not overly useful other novelty faded very quickly and i realized i have to do other things with my phone so for me facebook home at least as it stands right now gets a 5 that's for mostly everything non-facebook is a pain this is not an experience for everybody now you can try and download a multiple devices and see if it's for you but if you want something that's again just going to put Facebook front and center you're going to really enjoy this if you want to do other things on your phone you have to make sure you can live with those extra steps to do the things that you're used to doing on a regular device so love to hear your thoughts guys do you agree with my review of facebook home is a 5 too high to low or fair leave your comments down below give the video a thumbs up most definitely appreciate it i'm jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo i'll see you next video you