Summarize what you can do with "Facebook Home"

For more than 1 billion Facebook users, what was created in the form of an Android application is "Facebook Home"is. When unlocking the smartphone, you can see your friends' photos and posts by haste, so that you will not miss information from close friends by notifications placed on the front, yet you are using other apps It is now possible to continue chatting.

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First of all, this "Cover feed"It is like feeling to cover the whole Android home screen, and the latest posting of friends, in other words, a newsfeed flows. The data communication volume can be changed from the setting, and if you select "Low" you can change it to a battery-friendly feeling. You can check by swiping back and forth, and you can do "Like" if you tap a photo or current status twice in succession. "Like"! Then the thumb icon will be added.


You can understand what kind of operation feeling actually is by looking at the following movie.

How to Use Cover Feed on Facebook Home - YouTube


Notices of calls, events, and updates are also displayed, so you can check if you want to watch tap. Unnecessary information is supposed to disappear by swiping.


When deleting it can be deleted all at once and you can see how the movement is by seeing the following movie.

Using Facebook Home Notifications on your New HTC First Smartphone - YouTube


The ability to chat while using other applications is the next function "Chat head"is. You can use it by tapping a friend's photo and replying, it is possible to move within the screen with your fingers. After chatting is completed, it is designed to close by dragging to the bottom of the screen.


This can understand what you actually see by watching the following movie. Although it is uri to be able to return without interrupting work, I do not feel like I am getting in the way, but if it is a heavy user this may be just right.

How to Use Chat Heads on Facebook Home - YouTube


Also,"Application Roncher"Other applications can be activated by. You can create posts to Facebook from "Status" in the upper left, photos / movie shooting & posting with "Photo" in the middle, adding spots with "Cechk - In", and even changing the sharing range is.


Invoking each function is realized by moving your profile picture, moving it to the left will confirm the new message, if you move it up, it will launch the application launcher or post it to Facebook, if you move it to the right the application you were using last It feels like back.


For the Android smartphone (HTC One and One series, Samsung Galaxy Note II and Galaxy III) it will be available for free download from Google Play from 12th April, but also "Facebook Home" to say "Facebook phone" It is supposed to be offered from the beginning with an installed Android smartphone "HTC First" for US $ 99 (about 9500 yen). What is different is that "cover feed" is further strengthened.


That's why the Facebook Web site is a summary of these various functions "cover feed", "chat head", "announcement" and "app launcher". As for how to master each function, it becomes like the following movie.

Facebook Home - YouTube