Facebook «APK teardown does not answer the important question: why?

Facebook's "the new home of the Android" revelation in just a few days away, the folks at Android police have gotten caught up in the system dump this fabled HTC-built Facephone, to which they have given to APK teardown treatment. The information shall be entered in the ROM, seem to confirm earlier rumors of a relatively pedestrian Android smartphone, powered by the dual-core Snapdragon S4 chip (MSM8960), 1 GB of RAM and Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean running 4.3 inch 720 p screen. ("HTC Myst" code name is seemingly also confirmed, as well as AT&T radio support.)

Also is present in the Facebook home, apparently the home screen Launcher replacement is based around in your Facebook news feed. It's not a huge surprise--Phil predict so much of her Published column on Sunday and on Twitter a few days before that.

New Facebook home Launcher includes, apparently, and importing settings to stock Android and HTC Sense, TouchWiz Launcher, which shows that you might see in a separate release, at some point the necessary permissions. (By the way, even though the phone looks like HTC Sense 4 + drive, in the mind of the launcher is nowhere to be found this system a landfill.)

All of which leaves us with some nagging questions. First of all, the Facebook home page is not exclusively of "Myst", so how is this different approach to take a couple of years ago, the ill-fated HTC ChaCha (status) and salsa classes. What is pick up the phone and running last year in hardware and in the last year, due to a custom Launcher, that the stimulus will be available elsewhere anyway?

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All of the characters refers to some sort of new phone from HTC, along with all of this.

Why?

Why the Launcher or the program or what the hell we're going to call it, we need new equipment? Is Facebook going to sell this device? It comes up with Best Buy, along with 5,000 other phones? Amazon? Even if it ends up in the carrier stores, does not guarantee that it will sell enough to make it worth it.

There is every chance, Facebook has something to pull out of its sleeve on Thursday. But until then, we're left with Wondering just what Facebook and HTC will distinguish the new handset.

Source: Android police