Did Facebook Home just open the door to a new marketing outlet?

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It's an interesting concept, and might only be achievable by companies that have a large number of memberships. But if Home makes its way to the mainstream and people get used to interactive phone themes, will this blow the door wide open for a new marketing outlet, not forgetting Facebook's own ad program?

My initial reaction was to rage against this product, so I thought I'd try it out. Read the review and decide for yourselves.

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TL;DR:

- Available for Android only (as of this writing).
- Themes your phone with Facebook functions, new design, and a live photo stream as your background (active and locked screen) of your friends / fan pages.
- Endorses Messenger as a text-message option and quick-menu item.
- Interact (comment or like) with photo stream from Home display.
- Does not show ads yet.
 


i won't be surprised if FB launches their very own App store on this phone. They will also use instagram heavily for the home screen.
 
So this is why they bought Instagram for a billion... Home needs to be adopted by the masses and I still haven't seen anyone that wants or cares about it. Iphone's still reign.
 
lame, not available for galaxy nexus. looks like it's not compatible with quite a few android devices.
 
As a whole Facebook home is meh that being said though the chatheads messaging system is the greatest messaging implementation I have ever seen. Seriously try it.

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It makes messaging so much easier to jump out of and back into.

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tangy said:
Here’s How To Get Facebook Home Working In Any Region And On Any Device | Pocketnow
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Yah, you beat me to it.

Should work fine regardless of type of Android device atm.

The more I think about it though, this is just a glorified wallpaper app and I'm curious to see how much battery life it drains. I woke up this morning with a facebook photo of a dog as my background. I don't care enough about my Facebook usage to start flipping through status updates from my locked screen.
 
boatBurner said:
Yah, you beat me to it.

Should work fine regardless of type of Android device atm.

The more I think about it though, this is just a glorified wallpaper app and I'm curious to see how much battery life it drains. I woke up this morning with a facebook photo of a dog as my background. I don't care enough about my Facebook usage to start flipping through status updates from my locked screen.
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Yeah personally id like if facebook home just replaced my lock screen and left the rest of my phone alone.
 
haven't read anything other than a headline on Facebook home, isn't this something that would really kill your battery?
 
Facebook isnt dead yet, they are working on their local search, will be big for local biz.
 
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