{"id":650662,"date":"2013-04-04T14:49:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T18:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=627639"},"modified":"2013-04-04T14:49:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T18:49:46","slug":"here-are-the-likely-specs-of-atts-99-htc-first-with-facebook-home-pre-installed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/650662","title":{"rendered":"Here are the likely specs of AT&amp;T&rsquo;s $99 HTC First with Facebook Home pre-installed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a press event on Thursday, Facebook introduced a custom launcher for Android <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/News\/597\/Introducing-Home\">called Facebook Home<\/a>. The software will be pre-installed on certain handsets with the initial one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.att.com\/gen\/press-room?pid=24015&#38;cdvn=news&#038;%2338;newsarticleid=36260&#038;%2338;mapcode=consumer%7Cwireless\">being the HTC First<\/a>, a device for AT&#38;T&#8217;s LTE network that arrives in stores on April 12. As expected, it&#8217;s a mid-range handset with a price to match: $99.99 on contract.<\/p>\n<p>What does that $100 and two-year commitment get you? AT&#38;T isn&#8217;t providing many details on the handset, but says it has a 4.3-inch display, runs Android 4.1 and uses a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor, which is the third most powerful of the four newest Qualcomm chips. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.htc.com\/us\/smartphones\/compare\/?1=h8debo10&#38;amp;2=hesphm16\">I did a little sleuthing on HTC&#8217;s site<\/a> and also found the following hardware information, which\u00a0sounds about right for $99.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>16 GB of internal storage<\/li>\n<li>1 GB of RAM<\/li>\n<li>Internal GPS antenna + GLONASS, Digital compass<\/li>\n<li>802.11 a\/b\/g\/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC<\/li>\n<li>5 megapixel rear camera, 1.6 megapixel front camera<\/li>\n<li>Non-removable 2000 mAh battery<\/li>\n<li>1.4 GHz processor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I still see little-to-no reason why anyone should buy this device though. For the same price, you can get a better Android phone &#8212; say Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy S III &#8212; and simply install Facebook Home if you want it. 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