Another day, another Facebook phone wannabe, and this time it’s the INQ Cloud Touch.
The phone, which runs Android and looks like a bad imitation of a white iPhone, is being dubbed the “Facebook Phone” – mainly because it sports four oversized Facebook buttons on the home screen.
The People button links users to a news feed consisting of friends’ status updates and other activity on the site, while the Events button takes them to any invitations sent to them. Notifications leads to newsfeed items relevant to things users have clicked on and Places links to Facebook’s hardly ever used geolocation service. All sounds very essential.
It’s also got a pretty prominent chat link, for those who prefer to bury their face in their phone than talk to their friends in the real world.
The only marginally impressive thing about it, in fact, is that INQ bothered to put Spotify on the device instead of the native Android music player.
“Facebook? The INQ Cloud touch lives and breathes it,” apparently, according to the advert. “Facebook is part of the INQ Cloud Touch’s DNA. Totally integrated, it can’t live without it. So, a bit like you then.” – Hmmmm, is it just us, or does it sound like INQ is telling its customers they have no life?
