HTC’s Facebook-centric First deemed ‘pretty much dead’

[Wireless News]

The Facebook-centric HTC First may be little more than a month old but that hasn’t stopped some analysts from already writing its obituary. Benzinga points us to new research from.Global Equities Research analyst.Trip Chowdhry, who estimates that the HTC First sold less than 10,000 units in its first three days of availability and who says the smartphone is “pretty much dead” despite its short time on the market. Facebook and HTC announced the First in April as a device to showcase Facebook’s new Facebook Home overlay for Android that essentially takes over Android home screens and replaces them with Facebook content. But.Chowdhry says that the phone has been a massive dud so far “probably because it does not have a

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