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Android phones ... and it ... will come preloaded online ... nineteen and our need range HTC phone ... this could expand ... and what is Facebook Home will what it does ... is to ... turn your phone into first and foremost ... a way to ... get you into the Facebook world immediately ... turned on I ... knew immediately or in your news feed ... it scrolls across the opening screen ... in ... a post that you're looking at this photo looks beautiful ... all screen opposes ... tax that also ... accompanied by ... a background photo trump a person's Web site ... and you can relate to these status messages for ... comment on memory comments ... all from the opening on screen ... we now going to nap and without unlocking the phone ... so the phone is ... totally said the turnout in Facebook ... a couple of other foreign teachers ... if you ... go to ... the home screen where you get ... an array of icons for various apps ... Facebook is also replacing them with one of its own ... it works pretty much like a standard and in truth ... at larger screen but there's a bar across the top that ... makes it really easy and quick chew up postings ... at Facebook ... third is a feature called chat heads ... that somebody ... decides to ... chat with you through Facebook Messenger ... regardless of what actor using whether it's a Facebook app or some other at ... a little circle appears and that person's ... face appears there ... and you can conduct a chat ... and um ... eight states stays around and move it but if you wanna get rid of the ... Dragon all layoffs are ... sort of the downsides to this ... well um ... because it occupies the whole of the lockscreen or on ... Facebook Home ... covers up some features that a lawmaker may put on a lockscreen ... and one less common these iSight camera icon ... when she quickly get ... to your camera to take a photo without unlocking the phone ... Facebook Home covers that up ... the other downside for some people who are ... either on the fence Facebook or like she is more than one social networking service ... is that you're going to have to ... on ... call yourself from looking through your Facebook news feed to remember too that down into the phone ... and open up see Twitter who will sponsor one of the competing ... services and that's probably it ... something that Facebook ... had in mind when it did this ... I'm ... so ... bottom line I think this is well done ... I enjoyed it increased my usage of Facebook which is ... what they wanted ... but it's ... mostly for people who are ... Facebook fans ... live in"}

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