It’s perhaps fair to say that the new Facebook Home initiative has
had rather a rocky launch. The new software offering comes
pre-installed on the HTC First smartphone or is available as an app
through Google Play, although it’s only compatible at the moment with
certain other Android devices. Today we have heard that the initial
Facebook Home update will be arriving in Mid-May.
There’s been a certain lack of enthusiasm so far for Facebook Home
but that could be because so far it’s only available for a select few
Android phones. If you want to read much more about Facebook home then
check out our previous articles here.
Basically Facebook Home brings Facebook to the home screen of your
device with a social user interface overlaying the Android operating
system.
Cory Ondrejka, Facebook’s head of mobile engineering has now
announced that the first update is coming in the second week of next
month. The update will be available to those who use Facebook Home
through Google Play as well as HTC First owners. Devices compatible
with Facebook Home so far are the HTC One X, HTC One X+, Samsung Galaxy
S3 and Samsung Galaxy Note 2 with the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4
joining them soon. Ondrejka also stated that the Facebook Home download
from Google Play will also begin rolling out to regions outside of the
US today.
No details of changes and improvements with the first update have
been revealed yet but it’s possible that not as many people who’ve
downloaded Facebook Home so far will bother to update. We say this
because many of the user ratings on Google Play for Facebook Home only
give it one star while it has an average rating of only 2.3. Comments
from some users say they uninstalled the app after only a few hours and
have no intention of reinstalling so it looks as though Facebook needs
to come up with something pretty quick in this first update to change
people’s minds.
We’d like to hear from readers about what you’d like to see in the
first update to Facebook Home due in May? What have been your first
impressions about Facebook home, positive or negative? Send us your
comments on this.
Source: The Verge
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