Facebook, a social networking website with more than 150m users might have been the power behind the INQ1, a phone which is, unsurprisingly, dubbed the Facebook Phone.

The INQ1 comes from 3, a network in the UK. The manufacturer of the phone had been completely unheard of before, and the success of a company which has no name whatsoever in the market is unimaginable - unless it has some form of backup.

One might ask himself, or herself, why is INQ1 a Facebook phone, if most phones with advanced web browsers can practically do the same. The answer is simply. The same way Walkman phones are hyped for their music features, the INQ1 is hyped for its Facebook accessibility, it's the focus that a phone places on a particular subject.

This doesn't mean that the INQ1 is surrounded by hype, because the marketing it receives is justifyable. The phone does have a good Facebook tool, and as a phone itself, it has email access, free calls with Skype, a 3.2 megapixel camera, a WebKit-based browser, RSS feeds, HSDPA, and microSD memory card support.