HTC First to be first smartphone designed for Facebook Home

Facebook showed off Home, a new Android app that delivers the Facebook News Feed directly to your phone's home screen. This new application is designed to provide a new Facebook experience on your phone, it puts your friends' updates and notifications directly on the home screen, and makes it even easier to share photos. You will be able to download Facebook Home from the Google Play Store on April 12 for certain Android devices, including the HTC One X, HTC One X+, Samsung Galaxy S III and Samsung Galaxy Note II.

Additionally, Facebook cooperated with HTC to deliver the very first Facebook Home oriented smartphone: the HTC First. This Android 4.1.2 handset offers a 4.3" display with 1280 x 720 pixel resolution, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 SoC with two Qualcomm Krait general purpose cores and Adreno 305 graphics, 1GB RAM, 16GB internal flash storage, 5MP rear camera, 1.6MP front camera, 3G/4G/LTE, and a 2000mAh battery. The HTC First will ship on April 12.