Is this the new Facebook smartphone?

Is this the new Facebook smartphone? And if it is, does this make you want to buy it? Source: Supplied

An image of what appears to be the long-awaited Facebook phone has surfaced online.

Tech blogger @evleaks posted an image on Twitter this morning, with the words "HTC first, 2013".

To be honest, the phone just looks a little generic.

The image shows an HTC phone with the words "HTC first" emblazoned across the front. The phone contains only three buttons below the screen.

The image comes just days after tech blog Android Police published a leaked version of Facebook's rumoured mobile operating system. The leaked specs, if true, show that the Facebook phone is actually a new home screen which would let users change the phone's settings like wi-fi within the Facebook operating system.

So basically, Facebook's operating system seems to work exactly how you would expect a mobile operating system to work.

The operating system is rumoured to run on a number of different phones, not just HTC devices.

The social network is expected to launch the phone on Thursday 10am at its Cupertino headquarters, (4am Friday AEST).

Journalists were invited by Facebook to "come see our new home on Android".

Only two more days to go. Stay tuned.

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