Who does Facebook want to make a phone with?

In the past few years, Facebook has been unable to provide services in China, but that does not affect its exposure to Chinese handset makers.

According to Reuters, the two chief executives of Facebook and Millet had been in contact with the investment before the end of last year's 1.1 billion investment in millet.

Facebook's social-networking users are what millet needs to expand overseas markets, and as the fastest-growing Chinese handset maker, Millet's plans for Facebook's entry into the Chinese market certainly have obvious benefits. Ultimately, this potential investment has not been realized.

Facebook's social-networking users may not yet be worth the risk, but Facebook needs to be in close contact with handset makers. Although Google's social network has not been done, relying on the distribution capabilities of the Android system, it is not impossible for one day to fire up a social product pre-installed on every Android phone. Facebook, which is looking for "next 2 billion" users, does need to be wary.

HTC

In 2013, Facebook combined HTC launched its Facebook phone HTC debut. The Android phone, which is positioned in the midrange market, is a feature of Facebook's home desktop app, the centerpiece of mobile-phone manipulation, and it's characterized by the fact that people using the phone must be on Facebook all the Times.

Prior to that, Facebook had collaborated with HTC on two less "Facebook" Smartphone HTC Salsa and HTC ChaCha, with a Facebook version of the physical keyboard, enabling users to publish content faster on Facebook.

Rather than Facebook making the phone to capture the social-networking market from hardware, Facebook has made HTC work on a fan-peripheral product.

Even as Amazon launched the Fire phone, HTC first was shown a negative example: not every company needs to launch a phone of its own to see the Facebook phone.

Samsung

On the next Facebook phone, Mark Zuckerberg found Samsung. In October 2014, South Korean media reported that two companies had reached a partnership agreement to develop mobile content, including a new smartphone.

Samsung's weakness in mobile software and mobile content, and Facebook and Samsung mobile phone cooperation may still focus on the mobile phone system and Facebook integration, then the two sides of the cooperation of mobile phones have a bit of success, but also to wait for the phone to come out to know.

But the broad partnership between Facebook and Samsung has already started in the early 2014, if the Oculus company that Facebook bought is counted. Samsung and Oculus virtual reality equipment Gear VR, which was listed last fall, is responsible for software development by Oculus and Samsung for hardware.

Nokia

The latest mobile phone with Facebook stamp is from Nokia. A few days ago, Microsoft unveiled a Nokia-named handset: Nokia 215.

The 29-dollar handset is only a feature machine, but the pre-installed Facebook Messenger makes it seem a little "smart". Nokia 215 's target users are the first to use the mobile phone or the Internet users, it seems, with the social network, is not the smart phone is not important.

There are 4.3 billion of people out there, and technology companies, including Facebook, are apparently not trying to give them up.

From nonexistent 1 billion Chinese users to 4.3 billion potential users who are not on the line, Facebook is not a small market. But there is one more thing to note, in these markets, there are too many technology companies that want to take a piece.

Not every company has to launch a mobile phone, but handset makers with their own hardware channels want to do more than just mobile phones.