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As expected, Facebook announced a new suite of apps called Facebook Home for Android. Home is not a phone and not a fork of Android, but a deeply integrated launcher app that’ll put Facebook front and center on your handset. It has several core features that include Chat heads and Cover feed.
- Chat Heads is a messaging feature that’ll let you chat from with out leaving your active app. You can preview incoming messages and decide if you want to respond without closing your active app.
- Cover feed is a visually rich news feed that sends your friend’s status updates and photos on your home screen. It’s meant to keep your watching your Facebook feed and not your notification list.
- Apps: Home also functions as an app launcher letting you open apps.
- Notifications: Notifications will appear when something important happens … like a friend writing a note on your wall.
Facebook Home will be available on April 12th for Android phone owners and can be downloaded from the Google Play Store. It’ll support a handful of devices at launch including the HTC One, One X, Samsung Galaxy S3, S4, and Note 2. It’ll debut in a few months on Android tablets. AT&T produced some videos showing Facebook Home in action. You can watch them below.
[Via Facebook]
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Kelly Hodgkins
Kelly spent the last four years covering mobile technology at places like BGR, Gizmodo and The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Before writing, she spent a few years working with and teaching others how to use Adobe Flash and Macromedia Director. Even earlier than that, she spent several years as a Ph.D student in Microbiology. When she's not writing, she can be found fishing the lakes and hiking the mountains of Western Maine with her husband and tribe of children. You can follow her on Twitter @kellyhodgkins.
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