It looks like Facebook is preparing to broaden its scope of coverage once again and mobile phones are their next target.

In a statement released by Facebook officials, the company is currently looking for partnerships with mobile phone manufacturers and wireless service providers in order to get closer to its users by bringing more of its social networking services to mobile devices.

Devices such as the BlackBerry and Apple’s iPhone already provide users with the possibility to post updates and send messages on the popular social network’s Web site.

Still, Facebook is looking to take it further and allow its users to do many more actions, such as the feature of merging one’s phone contact list with the list of Facebook friends. The long term plan is to bring as many features to mobile devices as possible.

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Qualcomm has been reportedly convinced by modu, an Israeli based handset developer, to invest in a tiny modular mobile phone. The said phone is said to hold the Guinness World Record for the “lightest phone in the world”.

Modu has supposedly secured a US$7 million investment from the Qualcomm venture capital division. The concept is to have a core handset unit, which then slots inside user cases to change the design of the handset.

The company launched at last year’s Mobile World Congress, anticipating that the basic module plus two jackets would cost around US$200. The first music jacket was expected to be available towards the end of 2008, when modu’s mobile network operator partnerships become operational and modu devices are available to consumers.

(Source) Cellular News

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