Facebook SIMs, HTC/INQ Phones ? Facebook?s Phone Project Lingers, But It?s None Of Those

Facebook wants to be everywhere. They've made this very clear. They want to be on your desktop, on your laptop, on your smartphone, on your tablet, and on your dumbphone. The latter, they directly addressed today with a new SIM card made in conjunction with Gemalto which magically gives basically every dumbphone ? aka "feature phone" ? a simple entry point to use the social network: SMS. It's a great idea, and very cool for emerging markets. In fact, you could make a case for it sort of being a "Facebook Phone". But it's obviously not the mythical one which Facebook absolutely wants you to believe doesn't exist. Nor are the phones that HTC may be releasing tomorrow at Mobile World Congress. (Update: Yep.)�PocketNow was apparently able to snag some images of these Android-powered HTC devices that carry a special Facebook button at the bottom. Again, potentially cool and useful, but not the Facebook Phone. And that INQ-built Facebook phone? Also cool, but also not the Facebook Phone.

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