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Facebook has scheduled a press conference on April 4th. It will be unveiling its new ‘home on Android‘, rumor has it that we’re finally going to see the Facebook phone. The fact remains that Facebook has not co-developed the hardware with any manufacturer. Rather its new home on Facebook is actually a homescreen launcher. It was previously rumored that Facebook Home will debut on a mid-range HTC smartphone codenamed Myst. Now @evleaks has leaked an image of a device he calls HTC First, just to be clear, his leaked images have checked out in the past.

The image was posted on Twitter with no additional details. Just the name and the image. This new HTC smartphone is expected to be announced at Facebook’s press conference. It’ll run Facebook Home, which doesn’t exactly make any changes to the core Android OS. It merely replaces stock Android apps with ones that are tapped in to Facebook’s various services. The reported specifications of this upcoming HTC smartphone include a 5 megapixel camera, 4.3-inch 720p display and a dualcore Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor. It will come with Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean. What’s your take on the design? Do you think a mid-range HTC smartphone with various Facebook services baked in will appeal to you?

[Image via @evleaks]

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The HTC Myst has been rumored to be the company’s next Facebook Phone, and today, we’re hearing the device has made its way through the FCC.

The PM33100, or HTC Myst, has received the approval of the FCC, which means we get to learn a little bit more about this supposed Facebook Phone. The device will feature the same four LTE frequencies that is normally used for AT&T smartphones, which we’re sure you know exactly what that means.

Not only that, but we know the Myst will come with dual-band Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 in addition to its previously leaked specs of featuring a 4.3-inch 720p display with 320ppi pixel density, a dual-core 1.5GHz CPU, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage. The HTC is also expected to have a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera and a 1.6-megapixel front-facing camera.

Considering the HTC Myst just made its way through the FCC, we’re sure HTC will probably reveal the device shortly. Hopefully whatever it turns out to be won’t suffer the same delay as its HTC One is currently experiencing.

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The mysterious Facebook phone, which has been confirmed and denied from time to time, has appeared on the grapevine yet again. In fact, it was in the summer of 2011 when HTC, Facebook and AT&T held a pow-wow and rolled out the HTC Status/ChaCha, and it seems that a sequel to the HTC Status is in the pipeline, with all three players being in the picture yet again, offering the HTC Myst, which was also called the HTC Opera once.

An anonymous source (that has been claimed to be reliable in the past) did share the specifications list of the device, and it has been rather close to earlier rumors. It seems that the HTC Myst will feature a dual-core 1.5GHz MSM8960 system-on-a-chip, and will be accompanied by 1GB RAM, while sporting 16GB of internal memory, although there is a major drawback here – no microSD memory card slot is available for expansion purposes. Other than that, the HTC Myst will also feature a 4.3-inch display at 720p resolution and 320ppi pixel density, a 5-megapixel camera at the back with a 1.6-megapixel camera in front, Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi connectivity, and Android as the operating system of choice.

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