Facebook has been available on cellphones for a while, but we still haven't seen a phone that is entirely optimised for Facebook yet. According to the latest rumors, that might change because Facebook could be working on its own phone, how will it be welcomed by its 500 million users?

Rumor has it that Facebook is secretly working on its own phone along with former iPhone app developer Joe Hewitt and Google's previous Chrome OS project leader Matthew Papakipos. This information hasn't been confirmed but I would agree that Facebook phone would be a blast if we see it someday. However, Facebook has declined the rumors saying that it isn't developing its own phone.

According to Facebook, its interest was always to develop apps and make phones more social with better Facebook support and not to develop phones. Only thing that Facebook is doing is the deep integration with some manufacturers, and whenever that happens people tend to think that a Facebook phone could be on its way.

A Facebook phone might be a great thing, but it looks like we're not going to see it. Some of you might be disappointed, but Facebook has declined all such rumors. With so many phones that already have support for Facebook and social websites you have to ask yourself, do you really need a Facebook phone?

[via Ubergizmo]