{"id":51103,"date":"2012-05-28T09:01:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T07:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=51103"},"modified":"2012-05-28T09:02:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T07:02:24","slug":"facebook-building-a-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/51103-facebook-building-a-smartphone.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook building a smartphone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>A less-than-ideal IPO isn\u2019t stopping <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/348566-Facebook\">Facebook<\/a> from expanding its business, with the latest rumours claiming the social media company is working on building its own smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>Unnamed sources quoted by <em>The New York Times<\/em> claim that Facebook is working on a smartphone device, which it hopes to release some time next year.<\/p>\n<p>New York Times journalist, Nick Bilton cited the sources as Facebook employees and several engineers recruited to work on the project.<\/p>\n<p>The sources claim that the company has hired more than six &#8220;former <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> software and hardware engineers who worked on the iPhone, and one who worked on the iPad,&#8221; according to Bilton.<\/p>\n<p>Previous reports have also mentioned the possible existence of a Facebook smartphone in production.<\/p>\n<p><em>AllThingsD<\/em> reported that Facebook negotiated with <a title=\"HTC Corporation\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/340335-HTC-Corp.\">HTC<\/a> to build a smartphone which integrates the social network into all aspects of the phone &#8211; a report which was reiterated by tech news site, <em>Digitimes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>TechCrunch<\/em>, meanwhile, first reported on the possibility of a Facebook smartphone back in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1035_3-57442320-94\/facebook-reportedly-building-phone-with-ex-apple-engineers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is working on its own smartphone offering, according to sources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":48486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[605,161,403],"class_list":["post-51103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-facebook","tag-htc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}