Social networking site Facebook is expected to unveil a push into the smartphone market on Thursday from its headquarters in California.

After months of rumors that Facebook has been working on a phone of its own, today the company will be setting the record straight.

At 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET), Facebook will kick off its “Home on Android” event at its campus in Menlo Park, Calif. Rumors of a “Facebook phone” have persisted for months but, according to reports about today’s event, Facebook’s been working on much more than that.

The social network is expected to talk about its new “Facebook Home” software, which is software that will run on top of Google’s Android software.

Leaked images of the software (shown above) indicate that Facebook functionality will be put front and center, allowing users to update their pages or check in from more screens.

According to numerous reports, Facebook will announce a phone made by HTC called the HTC First, which will be the first to run the software.

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