Facebook Messenger for Android and iOS now features FREE VoIP feature

After Facebook, or more Mark Zuckerberg attained WhatsApp for $16 billion, many people mooched that what will happen to the company’s existing messaging application. As mentioned earlier about the leaked screenshots of the app of having an in-going call feature, this has now been proven true for Facebook Messenger.

The company restructured the app with a major new update that allows users to make free voice calls to their Facebook friends.

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This facility is but common in other applications too, such as Viber, which has been long in the game. But this is something quite big. Providing this facility should be a game turner. The voice calls can be made anytime given that there is Wi-Fi or mobile data connected on both ends.

Now when you view the contacts from within the Facebook Messenger, you can see a phone icon next to their names. Given that the contact has phone availability or not.

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Given the details about the phoning, let’s talk about the design. The design of the in-call screens of the Messenger and that of the Whatsapp, may resemble each other, but they also resemble the in-call screen of iOS7.

What is true and what is not, that is yet to be find out. Download the Facebook Messenger app and let yourself dwell inside of it.

    • For Android, click here.
    • For iOS, click here.

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