Yes, that’s not a joke. Apparently a Facebook phone is not real, but you should expect more “Facebook dedicated” phones coming your way. First off would be HTC jumping onto the bandwagon. HTC announced at MWC’11 the two new phones called ‘Salsa’ and ‘ChaCha’, a very Facebook oriented phone. It’s so integrated with Facebook that the two phones got a dedicated Facebook button.

HTC is clever not to call these two new phones “Facebook phones”, but they’re surely very close to one. The OS is Android 2.4 underneath, however the Sense customizations have taken on an extra few yet heavy tweaks and functions to accommodate a Facebook-centric lifestyle. That royal blue button is context-aware, with a pulsating light surrounding it any time there’s an opportunity to share whatever you’re doing with the phone through Facebook. A good example of that is you can long-press the F key to automatically check in with the social mothership.

The ChaCha is the typing demon, being a portrait QWERTY Android phone, while the Salsa is a 3.4-inch 480 x 320 touchscreen device. In terms of specs, you’re looking at a lot of common components between these two. There’s a 600MHz Qualcomm MSM7227, 512MB of RAM and ROM, a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, and a VGA front-facing cam. The resolution on the ChaCha is 480 x 320 as well, which should provide decent pixel density on that 2.6-inch screen.

Both are expected to launch globally before the end of Q2 2011, at pricing points above the newly announced Wildfire S, but below the similarly fresh Desire S and Incredible S handsets.

SOURCE via HTC (ChaCha), (Salsa)