HTC First to be discontinued

Well it seems that AT&T will discontinue the HTC First. As you might have seen the price was dropped to $0.99 after only a month - The writing was on the wall.

A source at AT&T has confirmed the move to BGR, saying that the HTC First, which is the first smartphone to ship with Facebook Home pre-installed, will soon be discontinued and unsold inventory will be returned to HTC. How much unsold inventory is there? We don’t have an exact figure, but things aren’t looking good. According to our source, AT&T sold fewer than 15,000 units nationwide through last week when the phone’s price was slashed to $0.99.

I was wondering why a company would lower the price of a phone so dramatically, and after only a month....

There is also a little glitch in the whole Facebook Home download app. Mashable shows that they just reached 1 million downloads, which many developers would be ecstatic to have their app downloaded 1 million times, but for Facebook, that represents a drop in the bucket considering it has more than 750 million active monthly mobile users. It also seems unlikely that all of those who have downloaded the app continue to have it installed on their phones, considering that Facebook Home has just a two-star rating in Google Play right now.

It is not looking good for 'Home' but we will always have the screaming goat and the airplane commercial.