HTC First announced on Thursday evening at the Facebook headquarters, will be the first smartphone to have Facebook Home on board.
As reported earlier Facebook Home is the social network's new home screen software which will be made available to download on Android's Google play on April 12.
Let's get one thing straight, the HTC First is no Samsung Galaxy S4 or iPhone 5 killer and hasn't set out to be either.
It is a mid-range smartphone and nothing else apart from having Facebook Home preinstalled.
HTC First Specifications:
Dimensions - 126 x 65 x 8.9 mm
Weight - 123.9 g
Display: 4.3-inch 1280-pixel-by-720p HD display
Memory Internal - 16gb
Ram - 1 GB RAM
Camera - 5 MP, 2592x1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Video - 1080p @30fps
OS - Android Jelly Bean v4.1
Chipset - Qualcomm MSM8930 Snapdragon 400
CPU - 1.4 Ghz Dual-core Krait
GPU - Adreno 305
Battery - Li-Po 2000 mAh battery
As you can see from the above specification's the HTC First is targeting the mid-range phone market with it's 720p display and dual-core processor, as the premium HTC handset's feature a 1080p display and quad-core processor's.
Although the display doesn't quite compare to the full 1080p HD screens of today's high end devices, it is far above what many entry-level devices offer. Facebook Home require's a good resolution display, especially as it wouldn't look all that great on a low-resolution screen. In fact, the device's that can currently support Facebook Home have 720p screens or better.
The chipset featured inside the HTC First is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 400, a dual-core 1.2 ghz CPU processor. The 400 falls below the 600 and 800 series processors, which are Qualcomm's best and in the premium handset's.
The camera on the HTC First has just 5-megapixel's, though it can shoot 1080p HD video. The front-facing camera is 1.3 megapixels.
A surprise extra, is that the phone supports 4G, which explains why EE is the launch partner in the UK.
It is highly unlikely HTC and Facebook will let HTC First owner's disable Facebook Home. They'll be forced in it from the start, and will be living the Facebook world right out of the box. According to HTC, users can easily disable Facebook Home and run stock Android on their handset if they so choose.
The HTC First goes on sale in the U.S at AT&T Wireless on April 12. The smartphone will cost just $99 with a two year data and call contract. For that price, we think it might be worth picking up the phone, disabling Facebook Home and using it as is.
Customers in the UK will be able to pick up the HTC First this summer, but with no official UK release date yet available. However it is to launch exclusively in the UK on EE and it's Orange and T-Mobile sub-network's.
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