Facebook sent out invitations to press Thursday for an Android event to be held at its Menlo Park campus next week.
The event invitation simply invited press to âCome See Our New Home on Android,â with no further description of whatâs in store.
Early rumors speculate that the announcement may be the long-rumored âFacebook Phone,â a handset created through a partnership with HTC that would run a modified version of Android with deep Facebook integration.
During an interview late last year, however, CEO Mark Zuckerberg indicated that a phone has âalways been the wrong strategyâ for Facebook, making a “Facebook Phone” announcement, at least in the hardware sense, seem pretty unlikely.
“Letâs say we build a phone,” he said in September. “Weâre not, but if we did, we could maybe get 10 to 20 million people to use it âĤ It doesnât move the needle for us.”
“The strategy we have is different from every other tech company [like Apple] thatâs building their own hardware system â weâre going in the opposite direction.”
At the time he indicated that the company wanted to âbuild a system, which is as deeply as possible integrated into every major device people want to use.”
That system, or a new part of it, may be what we see next Thursday.
What do you think Facebook is announcing next week?
Credit: Mashable
