{"id":4418,"date":"2012-05-28T17:34:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T22:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4418"},"modified":"2012-05-28T17:34:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T22:34:18","slug":"facebook-might-have-a-smartphone-in-its-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4418","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Might Have a Smartphone in Its Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This would be Facebook\u2019s third effort at building a smartphone, said one person briefed on the plans and one who was recruited. In 2010, the blog TechCrunch reported that Facebook was working on a smartphone. The project crumbled after the company realized the difficulties involved, according to people who had worked on it. The Web site AllThingsD <a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20111121\/the-facebook-phone-its-finally-real-and-its-name-is-buffy\/\">reported last year<\/a> that Facebook and HTC had entered a partnership to create a smartphone, code-named \u201cBuffy,\u201d which is <a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20120425\/facebooks-buffy-phone-yep-its-still-happening\/\">still in the works<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/27\/facebook-tries-tries-again-on-a-smartphone\/\">Facebook Might Have a Smartphone in Its Future &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This would be Facebook\u2019s third effort at building a smartphone, said one person briefed on the plans and one who was recruited. In 2010, the blog TechCrunch reported that Facebook was working on a smartphone. The project crumbled after the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4418\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[187,436],"class_list":["post-4418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-facebook","tag-smartphones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4419,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions\/4419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}