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hey what's up today we're finally gonna talk about that Facebook phone if we're all spending so much time on our phones interacting with people then how can we make this easier what would it look like if instead of our phones being designed around apps first and then just being able to have some interactions with people inside those apps if we flip that around and made it so that our phones were designed around people first and then you could also interact with apps when you wanted to what would it feel like if our phones were designed around people not apps we're not building a phone and we're not building an operating system but we're also building something that's a whole lot deeper than just an ordinary app you don't need to fork Android to do this it's a family of apps and you can install it and it becomes the home of your phone so we're calling this home here's what you're gonna see you can comment right there from the home screen and Cover feet is great for being able to stay on top of what's going on with all the people you care about but sometimes there's a more important message and you want to get notified so let's say I get a message from my friend I'm gonna get a notification with her face and her name so I'm easily gonna be able to tell if this is a person who I want to interact with now and if I do that I could just tap on it to pull pull her up and interact with her or if not I could just swipe away to throw her away for now so let's say that you want to get directions to a restaurant that you're gonna go to what you do is you put your finger on your face there at the bottom and these options pop out for apps messenger and the last stuff that you're in you just swipe up and and there are your apps right there we all want to talk to people not apps so we came up with this idea that we call chat heads and you can just tap on his face and bring up the his conversation this is what this can stay there in any app that you're in so let's say you're playing a game then and you want to tell your friend about it now that's easy you can move them around to find the right place where you want them to be that's a lot of fun and and then the most fun of all when you're done with them you just throw them away at the bottom damn I'd like to hand it off to Adam maseri to take us through this some more so if I press and hold my profile pic in the bottom you'll see I get three options messenger apps from them I most recently used that this is actually kind of fun to play with people do this a lot you also notice that there's a really thin light inline composer at the top that's so that if you want to post a status or a photo or check-in it's just one quick tap away now you've seen home and you're probably wondering how do you get it if you have the most recent Facebook app on Android and you have messenger on Android you'll see this when you launch it Android wants to make sure you really want to do this and so you just do always and then you're good to go and that's it home is up and running on your phone we think home is going to be a great experience on tablets now we aren't quite done with tablets yet so this isn't dead launch we're not gonna be launching on tablets and so like all of our other mobile apps home is going to release every month and so every month we gonna come out it's gonna have more features it's gonna work on more devices and it's gonna be better with home it's not just mobile first but mobile best we're gonna start off with just a few devices that we're supporting for download and we're gonna make this available for download starting in about a week on April 12th so we're looking forward to getting it in all of your hands and I'm excited to share that before even announcing home a lot of the best phone makers and carriers around the world have already signed up to deliver great experiences with home and today I want to highlight two 18t and HTC today I'm a proud to introduce the HTC first it's gonna be available on April the 12th for a great price of $99.99 exclusively at AT&T I'm really excited for for this moment the very definition of what a computer is and what our relationship with it should be hasn't been set for the majority of the world and when it is I think that a lot of that definition is going to be around people first so that's home you