Facebook Is Not Working On A Phone Just Like Google Was Not Working On A Phone (opens in new tab)

I can see good reasons for Facebook to build a phone, and would bet even money that that's what they're doing right now. However...

Media: "Facebook is making a phone!?"

FB: "No, absolutely not. Definitely not."

Media: "Well, that's exactly what you would say if you were making a secret phone!"

FB: "..."

I think Facebook is likely at least considering making a phone, and mocking something up in its skunkworks. I don't know that it would be very good, though. Only time, or lovely leaks to Palo Alto bars, will tell!

I dont know (or care) if they are making a phone but I think it makes sense for them to. In the new yorker article Zuckerberg said he "imagines Facebook as, eventually, a layer underneath almost every electronic device." and phones are and will probably remain the most dominant communication / social device.