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As TazeTSchnitzel alludes to, HTC and their Sense interface use a similar "special manufacturer" authentication permission to accomplish this.

EDIT: To clarify, Facebook has made a special deal with HTC (or Sony in the case of this post) to allow these non-standard browser oAuth flows.

Has anyone tried to sniff on the authentication protocol going on here? I'd like to know if every oauth consumer can use these hidden permissions.

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