HTC First Facebook Home phone future uncertain

BGR, citing a trusted source, is reporting that AT&T is dropping the HTC First, the smartphone manufacturer’s Facebook Home flagship device.

Within a month of launch, AT&T reduced the price of the First to $0.99.

BGR says that AT&T will be returning the unsold devices to HTC.

Facebook Home is a software UI layer for Android devices that sees the social network making itself ubiquitous across a device’s lock-screen and home-screens.

It’s certainly for those who love everything Facebook; and for the rest it’s avoided as not much more than a device invasion.

If these BGR reports are true, it doesn’t bode well for Facebook’s first foray into a Facebook-centric device.

However, CNET is reporting that their source who is “intimately familiar with the dealings between AT&T and HTC” says that there are no plans to stop selling the HTC First.

An AT&T representative told CNET: “As mentioned previously, we do pricing promotions all the time and have made no decisions on future plans.”

Have you tried Facebook Home? Let us know what you think in the comments below and on the MyBroadband forum.

Sources: BGR, CNET

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