{"id":656792,"date":"2013-05-08T13:25:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=496588"},"modified":"2013-05-08T13:25:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:25:14","slug":"facebook-may-have-found-its-first-flop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/656792","title":{"rendered":"Facebook may have found its \u2018First\u2019 flop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/08\/htc-first-sales-facebook\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/htc-first.png?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"HTC First Sales Facebook\" title=\"HTC First Sales Facebook\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>HTC&#8217;s &#8220;First&#8221; smartphone received mixed reviews from critics when it was released last month. The handset received praise for its affordable price \u2014 $99 with a new two-year agreement \u2014 and critics liked its decent internal hardware as well as the fact that it was running a nearly stock version of Android. Reviewers were less enthusiastic about the device&#8217;s rear camera and integrated <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/facebook-home\">Facebook Home<\/a> software, however. BGR noted in a review last month that while Facebook Home is appealing for the frequent social network user, it is still <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/23\/facebook-home-review-459645\/\">a long way off from being a finished product<\/a>. But despite the sizeable advertising budget, sales of the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/htc-first\">HTC First <\/a>appear to be off to a slow start. AT&amp;T this week slashed the price of the smartphone from $99 to $0.99 with a new two-year agreement and reduced the off-contract price from $450 to $350. Although no sales data has been released, the recent price cut suggests that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/facebook\">Facebook<\/a> may be in the midst of its <em>First<\/em> big mobile flop.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/zZ6tByzivB8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HTC&#8217;s &#8220;First&#8221; smartphone received mixed reviews from critics when it was released last month. The handset received praise for its affordable price \u2014 $99 with a new two-year agreement \u2014 and critics liked its decent internal hardware as well as the fact that it was running a nearly stock version of Android. Reviewers were less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}