Facebook Home : la couche est pleine !

As you know, the big announcement today called Facebook Facebook Home, an overlay to the Android operating system. In turn, this overlay, you better have rather well balèze phone. Here is the list of compatible phones:



For older: HTC One X, HTC One X +, Samsung Galaxy S III, Note II, the new HTC One, Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC First. Yes, all these phones have less than a year. And this is normal.

Cat Heads for example, the layer that continuously displays your messages and overlays your applications, you can access all without interrupting what you're doing. It's clever, but it is also great resource intensive. In short, you ask your phone to do everything he can do AND use Cat Heads.

Facebook home work

Other functions, such as the carousel Cover Feed must live with TouchWiz and Sense, require a powerful processor. Not to mention that all these new layers are all based on gesture recognition. And to make it all run, you need good batteries.

You understand, if you want to use Facebook Home in seamlessly, without slide effect with a phone that responds when you touch it, you need the big hardware. Of course, Facebook was quick to announce that there would be other compatible phones in the coming months. But it's a safe bet that it will be on new phones, not your old stuff.