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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by 23andme well hello there you're expecting me to say what's up welcome back to the episode of Rhett enters rents to show her a rant and rave on something that's going on or in this case might be going on in the wide world of technology up this week let's talk about the facebook phone supposedly it's coming and coming very soon so soon in fact by time you watch this video you might already know when it is and what it is and what it might have packed inside of it i think a facebook phone is a silly silly silly idea i don't need a phone that does what an app can do but that's just me this is right in jerz rants let's go ahead and get your auntie Zin a bunch so there have been rumors of the facebook phone for years in fact we saw a little tiny bit of fruit fall off the facebook phone tree a few years ago when we saw the HTC status or the very silly named cha cha as it was called internationally now admittedly it had a pretty awesome keep everything else about it was super ba down smiley face it had a facebook button on it that you could update your facebook status with and easily upload pictures but the facebook app does that in face because now we're really tightly integrated with core o essa so you can upgrade pictures right on iOS or android makes life a lot easier but supposedly Zuckerberg and company said we learned our lesson and now we're gonna release the real Facebook phone supposedly coming soon and allegedly called the HTC first with a lowercase F like the Facebook logo so there aren't any confirmed details available yet but according to android police HTC first because originally codenamed the mist don't get all excited about a super phone because it's super mid-range specs it's gonna have a 4.3 inch display with a 720p resolution a dual-core Snapdragon s4 processor gig of ram 5 megapixel rear camera and 1.6 megapixel front-facing camera so nothing here is huge a revolutionary Facebook's event supposed to take place on thursday or put forth at ten a.m. pacific at the company's Menlo Park campus and that's this week coming up so Facebook phone makes no sense come on I don't need a phone again that does what my app can do what could the facebook phone possibly do that my current smartphone your current smartphone already can't well I'd be able to tag people right from the camera application not a big deal not buying a phone just for that feature so what do you do on Facebook here are the big one so you upload pictures you tagged photos of friends you stock people you look at their news feeds you check pictures and you just sort of passively check out what's going on on facebook you can already do all of that on your phone it's Facebook gonna announce some crazy new feature that only this phone can do I cannot see any reason to sacrifice every other phone experience to try and just use a facebook phone so allegedly it's gonna have a crazy facebook e skin on it it's going to do things very easily why not just release widgets that Android users can use why do I have to use this special especially a mid-range facebook phone it's gonna lastly presumably a two-year contract just makes absolutely no sense to me and I don't want a specialty phone for each app I don't want an Instagram phone I don't want to Twitter phone I don't want a facebook phone I don't want a Foursquare phone I don't want any of those kind of phones especially like you don't need one device that just focuses on one thing their phones and their open source especially if it's gonna be based on Android just make it work with all devices and call it a facebook skin people can download make a facebook launcher publicly available people can download don't release it on a crazy mid-range spect phone and expect the world to get super excited Mark Zuckerberg cuz it just ain't gonna happen so a facebook phone I've said that a million times you guys want to see that you've any interest in a facebook phone are all 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