(Credit: James Martin/CNET) Facebook, in an effort to keep mobile audiences always affixed to its social network, is showing off a new "Home" on Android at a press event at its Menlo Park headquarters.
Facebook Home consists of a family of the social network's apps that becomes the home of your Android phone.
"We're not building a phone and we're not building an operating system," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. "We're building something a whole lot deeper than an ordinary app."
Today, phones are designed around people, not apps, Zuckerberg said. "We want to flip that around."
The rumor mill has been running fast and furious ever since Facebook announced the event one week ago. The company, according to a bevy or credible-sounding reports and alleged photo leaks, was expected to showcase a new HTC device running a tweaked version of Android that makes the social network's apps and functions native to the smartphone.
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