Latest speculations in the media industry say that Taiwanese phone maker HTC will unveil two smartphones bearing Facebook's brand and colors at an event in Barcelona next month.

According to the report made by City A.M., the online edition of a London-based free business newspaper, the phones will be running a new "tweaked" version of Google's Android operating system and will prominently display their owner's Facebook messages and news feeds on the phone's home screen. One more feature will be the option to e-mail or call friends from information located on a user's Facebook page.

Joe Hewitt, who developed the Facebook app for the iPhone but left the platform in a huff, and Matthew Papakipos, director of engineering at Facebook, are thought to be behind the launch, according to the business newspaper.

Earlier reports of a Facebook phone appeared last fall. At that time, Bloomberg reported that INQ Mobile was working on a pair of Facebook-branded smartphones that would be released in Europe during the first half of 2011 and in the United States in the second half of that year.