‘Buffy’ stabs at the heart of Facebook phones

Users have been bombarded with “Facebook” phones this year. Most of them, with the Vodafone 555 blue as a prime example, were pretty standard devices barring a couple of tweaks which gave users a direct path to the social network. AllThingsDigital now claims that Facebook itself is looking to make a mobile phone. Codenamed “Buffy” (after the vampire slayer played by Sarah Michelle Geller), the project is reportedly a collaboration between the social networking giant and Taiwanese manufacturer, HTC.

According to AllThingsD, the phone is planned to run on a version of Android heavily tweaked by Facebook for better integration of its services. The phone is also reported to use HTML5 as a platform for its apps, say sources familiar with the project.

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