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After a few days made a curious, Facebook finally launched the "new house" named Facebook Home Thursday (4/4/2013) at 1 pm Eastern United States time.

"We cannot build a cell phone, and we could not develop its own operating system," said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on stage, as reported by Engadget. And if Facebook Home?

Facebook's true Home is an application that is a little different than other smartphone applications because it runs on an operating system but be under other applications, such as the elaboration in the image below.

Platform choice falls to the Google Android operating system hosts. The reason is called Zuckerberg not far from the "open" nature of the open-source OS.

So run, Facebook Home will change the Lockscreen and Homescreen Android with a new look called the Feed Cover.

As the name suggests, Cover the Feed presents an update of the latest news feeds of Facebook users in the form of drawings or photographs that meet the screen, also a bit of affidavits regarding the feed in question.

All of these feeds to be updated automatically in the background. Users need not open Facebook applications or even opening the lock cell phones to follow the latest development of social life.

A feed can respond directly-for example to write comments by doing double tapping.

What if users want to access another application in the Android smartphone hers? Simply apply it with fingers of a user photo in the bottom Cover Feed, and all applications can be accessed from the launcher Android as usual.

Well, as long as the user opens a folder application, Facebook Home (by tamilan Cover Feed) will continue to run in the background, as can be seen in the image below.

If there are friends who send messages on Facebook Chat users, then the notification form friends photos will be displayed at the top of the screen, even when the user is in another application.

The user could then direct respond by touching pictures of friends and opens the chat interface. This feature is called "Chat Heads".

Facebook Home will begin on April 12, available through Google's upcoming Play Store. Unfortunately, this application can only be used in certain types of smartphones, the HTC One X, One X + HTC, Samsung Galaxy, Samsung Galaxy SIII Note.

Support for other smartphones such as HTC Galaxy S4 following One and tablet device will be added in the future. As for Android device manufacturers who are already partnering with Facebook to provide Home is the HTC, Samsung, and Sony.