Cloud Touch and Cloud Q built in close collaboration with the social media giant.
Unless there's a major surprise next week, these are the Facebook phones everyone's been expecting.
INQ says the two new Android devices deliver 'a fully live Facebook experience built around INQ’s Visual Media Feed'.
This effectively means a Facebook interface beyond text based status updates in favour of a rich media feed to the homescreen.
So there are one-touch links to Facebook Chat, Friends, Messages, Wall and Notifications. Facebook Places is also active on the homescreen and Facebook Events fully integrates with the Google Calendar on both devices.
The phones are also the first to use the Facebook social graph API, making it easy for people to follow updates from the friends they interact with most.
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Interestingly the default music player on the two devices is Spotify, which existing subscribers can access through a dedicated Spotify key.
The move is something of a coup for INQ, which has won many plaudits for its themed, affordable devices since launch in 2008, with the Skypephone.
However, since then the company has had to compete with iPhone, Android and BlackBerry, all of which have moved to a degree into the mass market space.
The pull of Facebook is such that INQ will clearly hope these devices can wrest back some share.
The INQ Cloud Touch is a 3.5” HGVA, Android 2.2 touch device, and the INQ Cloud Q is a 2.6” Android 2.2 touch Qwerty.
The former will be available in Q2 2011, and Cloud Q will be available Q3 2011, only at The Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy in the UK.
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