Just yesterday we saw pictures of the Facebook Phone’s hardware, but the software is what’s really exciting, right? Thanks to @evleaks and courtesy of 9to5 Google, we’ve got our first glimpse at what the custom Android skin is going to look like.
In the first picture you can see what’s likely to be an app drawer, complete with standard Google apps. There was some speculation that Facebook might pull an Amazon and cut ties with Google completely in the software, but that’s obviously not the case. Aside from the Google apps, we have the expected Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram apps. On the top of the app drawer, there are shortcuts for posting status updates, photos, and check ins on Facebook.
In the other screenshots, we can see a very clean look to the entire skin, and there’s still quite a bit of vanilla Android showing through. All of the icons are stock, the gallery application doesn’t appear to have been changed much, the status bar is keeping its holo theme, etc. More than anything, it’s just an extremely unique launcher for your apps with a few applications unique to the Facebook phone. Personally, I’m a fan of the less intrusive approach Facebook is taking here.
Even though this is a pretty small peek at what the phone can actually do, we can get a pretty good idea of how the phone will function from these leaks, assuming they end up coming true tomorrow. Have these pictures changed anyone’s mind about getting a Facebook phone?
source: 9to5 Google
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