Facebook Reveals Its First TV Ad For Facebook Home

Facebook has just revealed its first television commercial for Facebook Home, which is set to hit your television sets soon. The commercial is titled "Airplane" and it centers around a man who livens up his business trip by bringing his friends "on the journey with him". Every time he scrolls across his Cover Feed, someone will appear, whether its his friends in the overhead luggage compartments, drag queens popping up all around him, or his nephew smothered in chocolate cake.

The commercial also shows off the upcoming AT&T exclusive HTC First, which will come with an embedded version of Facebook Home. The embedded version of Facebook Home features minor differences to the downloaded version, with the main difference being better app notifications integrated into the Cover Feed feature. The HTC First itself is a low-to-mid ranged phone that you will be able to purchase for $99 on a new two-year contract with AT&T. If you want the phone, but don't want Facebook Home, you can check out our guide to de-programming the embedded Facebook Home launcher.

Facebook Home follows Mark Zuckerberg's philosophy that phones should revolve around people, and not apps. It brings your friend's closer to you through features like the Cover Feed as well as Chat Head Messaging, which lets you message your friends even while you're in another app. It will also have Instagram-like features where you can double-tap a photo to like it.

Both HTC First and Facebook Home are set to be released on April 12th. You can download the Facebook Home app for free from the Google Play store. The app will bring all of your friend's status updates and photos to the forefront of your Android device, but how many of us actually want that? We should know once the app launches. Be sure to check out our hands-on with both Facebook Home and the HTC First to get a general feel of the app.