The phones will be sold exclusively in Best Buy Europe and The Carphone Warehouse retail stores.
The two new Android 2.2 (Froyo) based smartphones - the INQ Cloud Touch and INQ Cloud Q deliver a "fully live Facebook experience built around INQ's Visual Media Feed."
The homescreen is a visual Facebook feed for clicking through friends' updates, pictures, videos and web pages. There are one-touch links to Facebook Chat, Friends, Messages, Wall and Notifications. Facebook Single Sign On is activated across the phones and people can check in to their favorite shops, restaurants and clubs with Facebook Places, also active on the homescreen. Facebook Events fully integrates with the Google Calendar on both devices.
The phones are the first mobiles to use the Facebook social graph API, making it easier for people to follow updates from the friends they interact with most.
The default music player on the INQ Cloud Touch and INQ Cloud Q is Spotify, and all Spotify features are available to subscribers through a dedicated Spotify key.
Henri Moissinac, Head of Mobile Business for Facebook said: "The INQ Cloud Touch and INQ Cloud Q bring Facebook to people with a single touch while they are mobile and demonstrate the power of socially aware devices. INQ has built an innovative and easy to use set of features that enable people to use common Facebook interactions such as viewing photos and videos, chat, message, and check-in to their favorite businesses all from the home screen."
The INQ Cloud Touch will be available in Q2 2011, and INQ Cloud Q (no images of which were offered to journalists) will be available Q3 20
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