Although it has been some time since we heard anything about a Facebook Phone, today the rumors have been stirred up again thanks to a report from All Things D. The phone is apparently code-named "Buffy" after the vampire slayer from film and screen — though which company is getting "slayed" in this metaphor isn't exactly clear. It's certainly not HTC, which is reportedly the company Facebook has partnered with the build the hardware for the upcoming phone.

For the operating system, Facebook may be going down a path similar as Amazon did with its Kindle Fire tablet — taking the core of Android and radically changing it. Facebook's social features would be built deeply into the platform, of course, and apps would mostly come via HTML5.