Steve speculates that Facebook, like Google, will enter the hardware business and also launch its own phone:
Facebook is competing with Google for time, attention and ad dollars. With Google clearly serious about phones and Apple buying up mobile ad companies, Facebook can’t solely rely just on others to carry its application if it wants to dominate what will increasingly be a mobile market for content and ads. It will want to have a deeper relationship with its users.
Facebook easily has the brand equity to launch its own phone (most likely with a partner at first) and marry it to your address book, photos, videos and events in ways that Google can never match because Facebook is more social. Facebook gets connections and how to use the data to make your life better. link.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/tech/facebook-phone/12521/
