{"id":657116,"date":"2013-05-09T14:25:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T18:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=500023"},"modified":"2013-05-09T14:25:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T18:25:40","slug":"htcs-facebook-centric-first-deemed-pretty-much-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/657116","title":{"rendered":"HTC\u2019s Facebook-centric First deemed \u2018pretty much dead\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/09\/facebook-htc-first-flop-analysis\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/htc-first-facebook-home.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Facebook HTC First Flop Analysis\" title=\"Facebook HTC First Flop Analysis\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>The <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/facebook\">Facebook<\/a>-centric HTC First may be little more than a month old but that hasn&#8217;t stopped some analysts from already writing its obituary. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/analyst-ratings\/analyst-color\/13\/05\/3575556\/htcs-facebook-phone-flopped-because-it-lacked-the-cool-f\"><em>Benzinga<\/em> points us<\/a> to new research from\u00a0Global Equities Research analyst\u00a0Trip Chowdhry, who estimates that the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/htc-first\">HTC First<\/a> sold less than 10,000 units in its first three days of availability and who says the smartphone is &#8220;pretty much dead&#8221; despite its short time on the market. <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/04\/facebook-htc-first-announcement-415328\/\">Facebook and HTC announced the First in April<\/a> as a device to showcase Facebook&#8217;s new Facebook Home overlay for Android that essentially takes over Android home screens and replaces them with Facebook content.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/09\/facebook-htc-first-flop-analysis\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/rhvMpbAoFT0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Facebook-centric HTC First may be little more than a month old but that hasn&#8217;t stopped some analysts from already writing its obituary. Benzinga points us to new research from\u00a0Global Equities Research analyst\u00a0Trip Chowdhry, who estimates that the HTC First sold less than 10,000 units in its first three days of availability and who says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657116","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\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}