Facebook takes on FaceTime with Messenger movie calls, Daily Mail Online
Facebook takes on FaceTime: Social network adds movie calls to Messenger in bid to topple rivals
Published: 22:36 BST, twenty seven April two thousand fifteen | Updated: 07:25 BST, twenty eight April two thousand fifteen
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype, Apple’s FaceTime and other messaging apps..
The feature is presently available to users on iOS and Android operating systems, the company said.
Users can movie call their friends even if one of them is on Apple’s iOS and the other on an Android device.
Scroll down for movie
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype and Apple’s FaceTime.
HOW IT WORKS
You can quickly embark a movie call from any conversation with just one tap.
If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the movie icon in the top right corner of the screen and begin a movie call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.
‘Today, we’re introducing movie calling in Messenger.
‘Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Messenger,’ wrote Stan Chudnovsky, Head of Product for Messenger and Param Reddy, Engineering Manager.
Messenger already offers people the capability to make voice calls to friends and loved ones around the world.
Movie calling will expand Messenger’s real-time communication features, enabling the more than six hundred million people who use Messenger every month.
Movie calling in Messenger is available for calls made from a mobile phone to another mobile phone, even if one person is on iOS and the other person is on an Android device.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference in March, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg said the social network would introduce myriad features within Messenger. For example, users can also send money to friends within the app. Facebook also unveiled a platform that enables developers to lightly create apps that function within Messenger.
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‘Adding (movie calling) to Messenger instead of the main Facebook app maybe ties in to Messenger’s mission where it’s a real core person-to-person app,’ said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner Inc, a U.S. technology research and advisory rigid.
‘Now they’re truly enticing people with more features.’
This is the latest feature released for Messenger, following the capability to send money to friends, the launch of Messenger Platform and the introduction of Businesses on Messenger, which Facebook says is coming soon.
Movie calling in Messenger is launching today for people on iOS and Android in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay.
Facebook faced a backlash last year for forcing users to download a separate Messenger app for mobile, and it looks like the web version is heading in the same direction.
Last month the social network launched Messenger.com – a standalone site that lets users talk to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app.
For the time being users can still send, receive and view messages on Facebook, and the site has not announced any current plans to eliminate this feature yet.
Facebook has launched Messenger.com (pictured) – a standalone site that lets people talk to their Facebook contacts, begin group conversations and send photos in the same way they can on the app. Users can still send and receive messages on Facebook and it is not known yet whether this will be liquidated in due course.
Facebook didn’t expose its future plans for the service, but told MailOnline: ‘We’re launching Messenger for web browsers – a standalone web talk product accessible via Messenger.com.
‘Once logged in, people can dive directly into a dedicated desktop messaging practice, keeping their conversations going and picking up where they left off.’
To use Messenger.com, users log in with Facebook credentials and the site will automatically import their contacts and current talks.
These conversations are shown utter screen, as opposed to the pop-up on Facebook or the half screen view on the main Facebook Messages page.
None of the other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings can be managed by clicking the gear icon in the top left-hand corner.
WHATSAPP ADDS VOICE CALLS
WhatsApp very first hinted it would let users make free calls to each other early last year.
Now Android users can make voice calls and the feature will come to iOS soon.
The latest version of the popular messaging app also has a cleaner layout with three tabs for contacts, talks and calls.
Users simply have to click on the ‘Calls’ tab and choose a contact to phone a friend at no cost.
However this only works inbetween WhatsApp users and it relies on an internet connection.
This menu lets users manage sounds, see desktop notifications and block users.
Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology told MailOnline that by splitting Facebook services, it reduces the different ways in which the site has to treat messages in its standard app and site.
‘With a portfolio of apps, there’s more room to manoeuvre; you don’t have to use Facebook anymore,’ he added.
The standalone site is the latest addition to the much-maligned service.
At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced it was turning Messenger into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’.
During the event Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five implements tailored to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ mobile applications.
Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies, and make calls more lightly.
‘They are attempting to make Messenger a full-featured and rich media platform,’ Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at the conference.
‘I think that they are interested in letting people know that Facebook is not a single app company, it is an app constellation.’
Users log in with their Facebook credentials and the site automatically imports their contacts and current talks. These conversations are shown utter screen. No other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings (pictured) can be managed using the gear icon in the top left-hand corner
Messenger.com is the latest addition to the much-maligned service. At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg (pictured) announced it was turning Messenger application into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’ in a bid to wiggle up online communication
‘Voice calling has been ramping up, and by separating [Messenger], Facebook can make this feature available. It would be too cumbersome to add to the standard site,’ continued Mr Kent.
‘This also makes voicecalling lighter to deploy in other countries.’
Facebook-owned WhatsApp embarked rolling out its own internet calls to Android users this week, and the feature is coming to iOS ‘soon.’
One of the Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies, called Messenger Business.
‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said.
During the event, Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five products and contraptions to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ applications. Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies and make calls (left). And Messenger can now be used for making payments to friends (right)
And early last month Facebook announced Messenger can be used for making payments to friends, and that it was testing a ‘buy’ button to permit users to make purchases directly from Facebook pages.
Elsewhere, the Messenger team is working with playmates including ESPN and the Bad Robot film production company possessed by Hollywood director J.J. Abrams to release applications that work on the Messenger platform.
Additionally, Facebook introduced a device designed to make it effortless to take public movie posted on the social network and embed it on other sites.
Facebook launched Messenger back in two thousand eleven but split the app from Facebook at the begin of last year and compelled people to download both apps if they desired to use the two services.
One of these Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies (example pictured), called Messenger Business. ‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said
At the time, members said they were outraged by the switches and flocked to the respective app stores to complain.
They were also worried about the app’s permissions that gave Facebook access to send texts and make calls on the user’s device.
Facebook was then coerced to react with a blog post explaining why it needed certain permissions.
It said: ‘Almost all apps need certain permissions to run on Android, and we use these permissions to run features in the app.
‘Keep in mind that Android controls the way the permissions are named, and the way they’re named doesn’t necessarily reflect the way the Messenger app and other apps use them.’
Facebook takes on FaceTime with Messenger movie calls, Daily Mail Online
Facebook takes on FaceTime: Social network adds movie calls to Messenger in bid to topple rivals
Published: 22:36 BST, twenty seven April two thousand fifteen | Updated: 07:25 BST, twenty eight April two thousand fifteen
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype, Apple’s FaceTime and other messaging apps..
The feature is presently available to users on iOS and Android operating systems, the company said.
Users can movie call their friends even if one of them is on Apple’s iOS and the other on an Android device.
Scroll down for movie
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype and Apple’s FaceTime.
HOW IT WORKS
You can quickly embark a movie call from any conversation with just one tap.
If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the movie icon in the top right corner of the screen and commence a movie call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.
‘Today, we’re introducing movie calling in Messenger.
‘Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Messenger,’ wrote Stan Chudnovsky, Head of Product for Messenger and Param Reddy, Engineering Manager.
Messenger already offers people the capability to make voice calls to friends and loved ones around the world.
Movie calling will expand Messenger’s real-time communication features, enabling the more than six hundred million people who use Messenger every month.
Movie calling in Messenger is available for calls made from a mobile phone to another mobile phone, even if one person is on iOS and the other person is on an Android device.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference in March, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg said the social network would introduce myriad features within Messenger. For example, users can also send money to friends within the app. Facebook also unveiled a platform that enables developers to lightly create apps that function within Messenger.
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Share this article
‘Adding (movie calling) to Messenger instead of the main Facebook app maybe ties in to Messenger’s mission where it’s a real core person-to-person app,’ said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner Inc, a U.S. technology research and advisory rock-hard.
‘Now they’re truly enticing people with more features.’
This is the latest feature released for Messenger, following the capability to send money to friends, the launch of Messenger Platform and the introduction of Businesses on Messenger, which Facebook says is coming soon.
Movie calling in Messenger is launching today for people on iOS and Android in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay.
Facebook faced a backlash last year for forcing users to download a separate Messenger app for mobile, and it looks like the web version is heading in the same direction.
Last month the social network launched Messenger.com – a standalone site that lets users talk to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app.
For the time being users can still send, receive and view messages on Facebook, and the site has not announced any current plans to eliminate this feature yet.
Facebook has launched Messenger.com (pictured) – a standalone site that lets people talk to their Facebook contacts, begin group conversations and send photos in the same way they can on the app. Users can still send and receive messages on Facebook and it is not known yet whether this will be liquidated in due course.
Facebook didn’t expose its future plans for the service, but told MailOnline: ‘We’re launching Messenger for web browsers – a standalone web talk product accessible via Messenger.com.
‘Once logged in, people can dive directly into a dedicated desktop messaging practice, keeping their conversations going and picking up where they left off.’
To use Messenger.com, users log in with Facebook credentials and the site will automatically import their contacts and current talks.
These conversations are shown total screen, as opposed to the pop-up on Facebook or the half screen view on the main Facebook Messages page.
None of the other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings can be managed by clicking the gear icon in the top left-hand corner.
WHATSAPP ADDS VOICE CALLS
WhatsApp very first hinted it would let users make free calls to each other early last year.
Now Android users can make voice calls and the feature will come to iOS soon.
The latest version of the popular messaging app also has a cleaner layout with three tabs for contacts, talks and calls.
Users simply have to click on the ‘Calls’ tab and choose a contact to phone a friend at no cost.
However this only works inbetween WhatsApp users and it relies on an internet connection.
This menu lets users manage sounds, see desktop notifications and block users.
Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology told MailOnline that by splitting Facebook services, it reduces the different ways in which the site has to treat messages in its standard app and site.
‘With a portfolio of apps, there’s more room to manoeuvre; you don’t have to use Facebook anymore,’ he added.
The standalone site is the latest addition to the much-maligned service.
At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced it was turning Messenger into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’.
During the event Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five devices tailored to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ mobile applications.
Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies, and make calls more lightly.
‘They are attempting to make Messenger a full-featured and rich media platform,’ Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at the conference.
‘I think that they are interested in letting people know that Facebook is not a single app company, it is an app constellation.’
Users log in with their Facebook credentials and the site automatically imports their contacts and current talks. These conversations are shown utter screen. No other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings (pictured) can be managed using the gear icon in the top left-hand corner
Messenger.com is the latest addition to the much-maligned service. At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg (pictured) announced it was turning Messenger application into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’ in a bid to jiggle up online communication
‘Voice calling has been ramping up, and by separating [Messenger], Facebook can make this feature available. It would be too cumbersome to add to the standard site,’ continued Mr Kent.
‘This also makes voicecalling lighter to deploy in other countries.’
Facebook-owned WhatsApp began rolling out its own internet calls to Android users this week, and the feature is coming to iOS ‘soon.’
One of the Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies, called Messenger Business.
‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said.
During the event, Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five products and contraptions to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ applications. Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies and make calls (left). And Messenger can now be used for making payments to friends (right)
And early last month Facebook announced Messenger can be used for making payments to friends, and that it was testing a ‘buy’ button to permit users to make purchases directly from Facebook pages.
Elsewhere, the Messenger team is working with fucking partners including ESPN and the Bad Robot film production company possessed by Hollywood director J.J. Abrams to release applications that work on the Messenger platform.
Additionally, Facebook introduced a contraption designed to make it effortless to take public movie posted on the social network and embed it on other sites.
Facebook launched Messenger back in two thousand eleven but split the app from Facebook at the embark of last year and compelled people to download both apps if they desired to use the two services.
One of these Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies (example pictured), called Messenger Business. ‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said
At the time, members said they were outraged by the switches and flocked to the respective app stores to complain.
They were also worried about the app’s permissions that gave Facebook access to send texts and make calls on the user’s device.
Facebook was then coerced to react with a blog post explaining why it needed certain permissions.
It said: ‘Almost all apps need certain permissions to run on Android, and we use these permissions to run features in the app.
‘Keep in mind that Android controls the way the permissions are named, and the way they’re named doesn’t necessarily reflect the way the Messenger app and other apps use them.’
Facebook takes on FaceTime with Messenger movie calls, Daily Mail Online
Facebook takes on FaceTime: Social network adds movie calls to Messenger in bid to topple rivals
By Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com 22:36 BST twenty seven Apr 2015, updated 07:25 BST twenty eight Apr two thousand fifteen
- Users of the Messenger app can now movie calls other users
- Fresh feature available on Android and iOS apps
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype, Apple’s FaceTime and other messaging apps..
The feature is presently available to users on iOS and Android operating systems, the company said.
Users can movie call their friends even if one of them is on Apple’s iOS and the other on an Android device.
Scroll down for movie
HOW IT WORKS
You can quickly begin a movie call from any conversation with just one tap.
If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the movie icon in the top right corner of the screen and embark a movie call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.
‘Today, we’re introducing movie calling in Messenger.
‘Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Messenger,’ wrote Stan Chudnovsky, Head of Product for Messenger and Param Reddy, Engineering Manager.
Messenger already offers people the capability to make voice calls to friends and loved ones around the world.
Movie calling will expand Messenger’s real-time communication features, enabling the more than six hundred million people who use Messenger every month.
Movie calling in Messenger is available for calls made from a mobile phone to another mobile phone, even if one person is on iOS and the other person is on an Android device.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference in March, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg said the social network would introduce myriad features within Messenger. For example, users can also send money to friends within the app. Facebook also unveiled a platform that enables developers to lightly create apps that function within Messenger.
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‘Adding (movie calling) to Messenger instead of the main Facebook app maybe ties in to Messenger’s mission where it’s a real core person-to-person app,’ said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner Inc, a U.S. technology research and advisory rock hard.
‘Now they’re indeed enticing people with more features.’
This is the latest feature released for Messenger, following the capability to send money to friends, the launch of Messenger Platform and the introduction of Businesses on Messenger, which Facebook says is coming soon.
Movie calling in Messenger is launching today for people on iOS and Android in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay.
Facebook faced a backlash last year for forcing users to download a separate Messenger app for mobile, and it looks like the web version is heading in the same direction.
Last month the social network launched Messenger.com – a standalone site that lets users talk to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app.
For the time being users can still send, receive and view messages on Facebook, and the site has not announced any current plans to eliminate this feature yet.
Facebook didn’t expose its future plans for the service, but told MailOnline: ‘We’re launching Messenger for web browsers – a standalone web talk product accessible via Messenger.com.
‘Once logged in, people can dive directly into a dedicated desktop messaging practice, keeping their conversations going and picking up where they left off.’
To use Messenger.com, users log in with Facebook credentials and the site will automatically import their contacts and current talks.
These conversations are shown utter screen, as opposed to the pop-up on Facebook or the half screen view on the main Facebook Messages page.
None of the other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings can be managed by clicking the gear icon in the top left-hand corner.
WHATSAPP ADDS VOICE CALLS
WhatsApp very first hinted it would let users make free calls to each other early last year.
Now Android users can make voice calls and the feature will come to iOS soon.
The latest version of the popular messaging app also has a cleaner layout with three tabs for contacts, talks and calls.
Users simply have to click on the ‘Calls’ tab and choose a contact to phone a friend at no cost.
However this only works inbetween WhatsApp users and it relies on an internet connection.
This menu lets users manage sounds, see desktop notifications and block users.
Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology told MailOnline that by splitting Facebook services, it reduces the different ways in which the site has to treat messages in its standard app and site.
‘With a portfolio of apps, there’s more room to manoeuvre; you don’t have to use Facebook anymore,’ he added.
The standalone site is the latest addition to the much-maligned service.
At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced it was turning Messenger into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’.
During the event Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five implements tailored to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ mobile applications.
Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies, and make calls more lightly.
‘They are attempting to make Messenger a full-featured and rich media platform,’ Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at the conference.
‘I think that they are interested in letting people know that Facebook is not a single app company, it is an app constellation.’
‘Voice calling has been ramping up, and by separating [Messenger], Facebook can make this feature available. It would be too cumbersome to add to the standard site,’ continued Mr Kent.
‘This also makes voicecalling lighter to deploy in other countries.’
Facebook-owned WhatsApp embarked rolling out its own internet calls to Android users this week, and the feature is coming to iOS ‘soon.’
One of the Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies, called Messenger Business.
‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said.
And early last month Facebook announced Messenger can be used for making payments to friends, and that it was testing a ‘buy’ button to permit users to make purchases directly from Facebook pages.
Elsewhere, the Messenger team is working with playmates including ESPN and the Bad Robot film production company possessed by Hollywood director J.J. Abrams to release applications that work on the Messenger platform.
Additionally, Facebook introduced a device designed to make it effortless to take public movie posted on the social network and embed it on other sites.
Facebook launched Messenger back in two thousand eleven but split the app from Facebook at the commence of last year and coerced people to download both apps if they wished to use the two services.
At the time, members said they were outraged by the switches and flocked to the respective app stores to complain.
They were also worried about the app’s permissions that gave Facebook access to send texts and make calls on the user’s device.
Facebook was then coerced to react with a blog post explaining why it needed certain permissions.
It said: ‘Almost all apps need certain permissions to run on Android, and we use these permissions to run features in the app.
‘Keep in mind that Android controls the way the permissions are named, and the way they’re named doesn’t necessarily reflect the way the Messenger app and other apps use them.’
Facebook takes on FaceTime with Messenger movie calls, Daily Mail Online
Facebook takes on FaceTime: Social network adds movie calls to Messenger in bid to topple rivals
Published: 22:36 BST, twenty seven April two thousand fifteen | Updated: 07:25 BST, twenty eight April two thousand fifteen
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype, Apple’s FaceTime and other messaging apps..
The feature is presently available to users on iOS and Android operating systems, the company said.
Users can movie call their friends even if one of them is on Apple’s iOS and the other on an Android device.
Scroll down for movie
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype and Apple’s FaceTime.
HOW IT WORKS
You can quickly commence a movie call from any conversation with just one tap.
If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the movie icon in the top right corner of the screen and begin a movie call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.
‘Today, we’re introducing movie calling in Messenger.
‘Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Messenger,’ wrote Stan Chudnovsky, Head of Product for Messenger and Param Reddy, Engineering Manager.
Messenger already offers people the capability to make voice calls to friends and loved ones around the world.
Movie calling will expand Messenger’s real-time communication features, enabling the more than six hundred million people who use Messenger every month.
Movie calling in Messenger is available for calls made from a mobile phone to another mobile phone, even if one person is on iOS and the other person is on an Android device.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference in March, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg said the social network would introduce myriad features within Messenger. For example, users can also send money to friends within the app. Facebook also unveiled a platform that enables developers to lightly create apps that function within Messenger.
RELATED ARTICLES
Share this article
‘Adding (movie calling) to Messenger instead of the main Facebook app maybe ties in to Messenger’s mission where it’s a real core person-to-person app,’ said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner Inc, a U.S. technology research and advisory stiff.
‘Now they’re indeed enticing people with more features.’
This is the latest feature released for Messenger, following the capability to send money to friends, the launch of Messenger Platform and the introduction of Businesses on Messenger, which Facebook says is coming soon.
Movie calling in Messenger is launching today for people on iOS and Android in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay.
Facebook faced a backlash last year for forcing users to download a separate Messenger app for mobile, and it looks like the web version is heading in the same direction.
Last month the social network launched Messenger.com – a standalone site that lets users talk to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app.
For the time being users can still send, receive and view messages on Facebook, and the site has not announced any current plans to liquidate this feature yet.
Facebook has launched Messenger.com (pictured) – a standalone site that lets people talk to their Facebook contacts, embark group conversations and send photos in the same way they can on the app. Users can still send and receive messages on Facebook and it is not known yet whether this will be eliminated in due course.
Facebook didn’t expose its future plans for the service, but told MailOnline: ‘We’re launching Messenger for web browsers – a standalone web talk product accessible via Messenger.com.
‘Once logged in, people can dive directly into a dedicated desktop messaging practice, keeping their conversations going and picking up where they left off.’
To use Messenger.com, users log in with Facebook credentials and the site will automatically import their contacts and current talks.
These conversations are shown utter screen, as opposed to the pop-up on Facebook or the half screen view on the main Facebook Messages page.
None of the other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings can be managed by clicking the gear icon in the top left-hand corner.
WHATSAPP ADDS VOICE CALLS
WhatsApp very first hinted it would let users make free calls to each other early last year.
Now Android users can make voice calls and the feature will come to iOS soon.
The latest version of the popular messaging app also has a cleaner layout with three tabs for contacts, talks and calls.
Users simply have to click on the ‘Calls’ tab and choose a contact to phone a friend at no cost.
However this only works inbetween WhatsApp users and it relies on an internet connection.
This menu lets users manage sounds, see desktop notifications and block users.
Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology told MailOnline that by splitting Facebook services, it reduces the different ways in which the site has to treat messages in its standard app and site.
‘With a portfolio of apps, there’s more room to manoeuvre; you don’t have to use Facebook anymore,’ he added.
The standalone site is the latest addition to the much-maligned service.
At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced it was turning Messenger into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’.
During the event Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five devices tailored to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ mobile applications.
Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies, and make calls more lightly.
‘They are attempting to make Messenger a full-featured and rich media platform,’ Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at the conference.
‘I think that they are interested in letting people know that Facebook is not a single app company, it is an app constellation.’
Users log in with their Facebook credentials and the site automatically imports their contacts and current talks. These conversations are shown utter screen. No other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings (pictured) can be managed using the gear icon in the top left-hand corner
Messenger.com is the latest addition to the much-maligned service. At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg (pictured) announced it was turning Messenger application into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’ in a bid to jiggle up online communication
‘Voice calling has been ramping up, and by separating [Messenger], Facebook can make this feature available. It would be too cumbersome to add to the standard site,’ continued Mr Kent.
‘This also makes voicecalling lighter to deploy in other countries.’
Facebook-owned WhatsApp began rolling out its own internet calls to Android users this week, and the feature is coming to iOS ‘soon.’
One of the Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies, called Messenger Business.
‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said.
During the event, Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five products and implements to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ applications. Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies and make calls (left). And Messenger can now be used for making payments to friends (right)
And early last month Facebook announced Messenger can be used for making payments to friends, and that it was testing a ‘buy’ button to permit users to make purchases directly from Facebook pages.
Elsewhere, the Messenger team is working with playmates including ESPN and the Bad Robot film production company wielded by Hollywood director J.J. Abrams to release applications that work on the Messenger platform.
Additionally, Facebook introduced a implement designed to make it effortless to take public movie posted on the social network and embed it on other sites.
Facebook launched Messenger back in two thousand eleven but split the app from Facebook at the commence of last year and coerced people to download both apps if they dreamed to use the two services.
One of these Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies (example pictured), called Messenger Business. ‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said
At the time, members said they were outraged by the switches and flocked to the respective app stores to complain.
They were also worried about the app’s permissions that gave Facebook access to send texts and make calls on the user’s device.
Facebook was then compelled to react with a blog post explaining why it needed certain permissions.
It said: ‘Almost all apps need certain permissions to run on Android, and we use these permissions to run features in the app.
‘Keep in mind that Android controls the way the permissions are named, and the way they’re named doesn’t necessarily reflect the way the Messenger app and other apps use them.’
Facebook takes on FaceTime with Messenger movie calls, Daily Mail Online
Facebook takes on FaceTime: Social network adds movie calls to Messenger in bid to topple rivals
By Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com 22:36 BST twenty seven Apr 2015, updated 07:25 BST twenty eight Apr two thousand fifteen
- Users of the Messenger app can now movie calls other users
- Fresh feature available on Android and iOS apps
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype, Apple’s FaceTime and other messaging apps..
The feature is presently available to users on iOS and Android operating systems, the company said.
Users can movie call their friends even if one of them is on Apple’s iOS and the other on an Android device.
Scroll down for movie
HOW IT WORKS
You can quickly embark a movie call from any conversation with just one tap.
If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the movie icon in the top right corner of the screen and begin a movie call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.
‘Today, we’re introducing movie calling in Messenger.
‘Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Messenger,’ wrote Stan Chudnovsky, Head of Product for Messenger and Param Reddy, Engineering Manager.
Messenger already offers people the capability to make voice calls to friends and loved ones around the world.
Movie calling will expand Messenger’s real-time communication features, enabling the more than six hundred million people who use Messenger every month.
Movie calling in Messenger is available for calls made from a mobile phone to another mobile phone, even if one person is on iOS and the other person is on an Android device.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference in March, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg said the social network would introduce myriad features within Messenger. For example, users can also send money to friends within the app. Facebook also unveiled a platform that enables developers to lightly create apps that function within Messenger.
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‘Adding (movie calling) to Messenger instead of the main Facebook app maybe ties in to Messenger’s mission where it’s a real core person-to-person app,’ said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner Inc, a U.S. technology research and advisory rock-hard.
‘Now they’re indeed enticing people with more features.’
This is the latest feature released for Messenger, following the capability to send money to friends, the launch of Messenger Platform and the introduction of Businesses on Messenger, which Facebook says is coming soon.
Movie calling in Messenger is launching today for people on iOS and Android in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay.
Facebook faced a backlash last year for forcing users to download a separate Messenger app for mobile, and it looks like the web version is heading in the same direction.
Last month the social network launched Messenger.com – a standalone site that lets users talk to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app.
For the time being users can still send, receive and view messages on Facebook, and the site has not announced any current plans to liquidate this feature yet.
Facebook didn’t expose its future plans for the service, but told MailOnline: ‘We’re launching Messenger for web browsers – a standalone web talk product accessible via Messenger.com.
‘Once logged in, people can dive directly into a dedicated desktop messaging practice, keeping their conversations going and picking up where they left off.’
To use Messenger.com, users log in with Facebook credentials and the site will automatically import their contacts and current talks.
These conversations are shown total screen, as opposed to the pop-up on Facebook or the half screen view on the main Facebook Messages page.
None of the other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings can be managed by clicking the gear icon in the top left-hand corner.
WHATSAPP ADDS VOICE CALLS
WhatsApp very first hinted it would let users make free calls to each other early last year.
Now Android users can make voice calls and the feature will come to iOS soon.
The latest version of the popular messaging app also has a cleaner layout with three tabs for contacts, talks and calls.
Users simply have to click on the ‘Calls’ tab and choose a contact to phone a friend at no cost.
However this only works inbetween WhatsApp users and it relies on an internet connection.
This menu lets users manage sounds, see desktop notifications and block users.
Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology told MailOnline that by splitting Facebook services, it reduces the different ways in which the site has to treat messages in its standard app and site.
‘With a portfolio of apps, there’s more room to manoeuvre; you don’t have to use Facebook anymore,’ he added.
The standalone site is the latest addition to the much-maligned service.
At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced it was turning Messenger into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’.
During the event Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five instruments tailored to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ mobile applications.
Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies, and make calls more lightly.
‘They are attempting to make Messenger a full-featured and rich media platform,’ Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at the conference.
‘I think that they are interested in letting people know that Facebook is not a single app company, it is an app constellation.’
‘Voice calling has been ramping up, and by separating [Messenger], Facebook can make this feature available. It would be too cumbersome to add to the standard site,’ continued Mr Kent.
‘This also makes voicecalling lighter to deploy in other countries.’
Facebook-owned WhatsApp commenced rolling out its own internet calls to Android users this week, and the feature is coming to iOS ‘soon.’
One of the Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies, called Messenger Business.
‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said.
And early last month Facebook announced Messenger can be used for making payments to friends, and that it was testing a ‘buy’ button to permit users to make purchases directly from Facebook pages.
Elsewhere, the Messenger team is working with playmates including ESPN and the Bad Robot film production company possessed by Hollywood director J.J. Abrams to release applications that work on the Messenger platform.
Additionally, Facebook introduced a device designed to make it effortless to take public movie posted on the social network and embed it on other sites.
Facebook launched Messenger back in two thousand eleven but split the app from Facebook at the embark of last year and coerced people to download both apps if they desired to use the two services.
At the time, members said they were outraged by the switches and flocked to the respective app stores to complain.
They were also worried about the app’s permissions that gave Facebook access to send texts and make calls on the user’s device.
Facebook was then coerced to react with a blog post explaining why it needed certain permissions.
It said: ‘Almost all apps need certain permissions to run on Android, and we use these permissions to run features in the app.
‘Keep in mind that Android controls the way the permissions are named, and the way they’re named doesn’t necessarily reflect the way the Messenger app and other apps use them.’
Facebook takes on FaceTime with Messenger movie calls, Daily Mail Online
Facebook takes on FaceTime: Social network adds movie calls to Messenger in bid to topple rivals
Published: 22:36 BST, twenty seven April two thousand fifteen | Updated: 07:25 BST, twenty eight April two thousand fifteen
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype, Apple’s FaceTime and other messaging apps..
The feature is presently available to users on iOS and Android operating systems, the company said.
Users can movie call their friends even if one of them is on Apple’s iOS and the other on an Android device.
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Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype and Apple’s FaceTime.
HOW IT WORKS
You can quickly embark a movie call from any conversation with just one tap.
If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the movie icon in the top right corner of the screen and begin a movie call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.
‘Today, we’re introducing movie calling in Messenger.
‘Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Messenger,’ wrote Stan Chudnovsky, Head of Product for Messenger and Param Reddy, Engineering Manager.
Messenger already offers people the capability to make voice calls to friends and loved ones around the world.
Movie calling will expand Messenger’s real-time communication features, enabling the more than six hundred million people who use Messenger every month.
Movie calling in Messenger is available for calls made from a mobile phone to another mobile phone, even if one person is on iOS and the other person is on an Android device.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference in March, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg said the social network would introduce myriad features within Messenger. For example, users can also send money to friends within the app. Facebook also unveiled a platform that enables developers to lightly create apps that function within Messenger.
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‘Adding (movie calling) to Messenger instead of the main Facebook app maybe ties in to Messenger’s mission where it’s a real core person-to-person app,’ said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner Inc, a U.S. technology research and advisory rock-hard.
‘Now they’re truly enticing people with more features.’
This is the latest feature released for Messenger, following the capability to send money to friends, the launch of Messenger Platform and the introduction of Businesses on Messenger, which Facebook says is coming soon.
Movie calling in Messenger is launching today for people on iOS and Android in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay.
Facebook faced a backlash last year for forcing users to download a separate Messenger app for mobile, and it looks like the web version is heading in the same direction.
Last month the social network launched Messenger.com – a standalone site that lets users talk to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app.
For the time being users can still send, receive and view messages on Facebook, and the site has not announced any current plans to liquidate this feature yet.
Facebook has launched Messenger.com (pictured) – a standalone site that lets people talk to their Facebook contacts, begin group conversations and send photos in the same way they can on the app. Users can still send and receive messages on Facebook and it is not known yet whether this will be eliminated in due course.
Facebook didn’t expose its future plans for the service, but told MailOnline: ‘We’re launching Messenger for web browsers – a standalone web talk product accessible via Messenger.com.
‘Once logged in, people can dive directly into a dedicated desktop messaging practice, keeping their conversations going and picking up where they left off.’
To use Messenger.com, users log in with Facebook credentials and the site will automatically import their contacts and current talks.
These conversations are shown utter screen, as opposed to the pop-up on Facebook or the half screen view on the main Facebook Messages page.
None of the other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings can be managed by clicking the gear icon in the top left-hand corner.
WHATSAPP ADDS VOICE CALLS
WhatsApp very first hinted it would let users make free calls to each other early last year.
Now Android users can make voice calls and the feature will come to iOS soon.
The latest version of the popular messaging app also has a cleaner layout with three tabs for contacts, talks and calls.
Users simply have to click on the ‘Calls’ tab and choose a contact to phone a friend at no cost.
However this only works inbetween WhatsApp users and it relies on an internet connection.
This menu lets users manage sounds, see desktop notifications and block users.
Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology told MailOnline that by splitting Facebook services, it reduces the different ways in which the site has to treat messages in its standard app and site.
‘With a portfolio of apps, there’s more room to manoeuvre; you don’t have to use Facebook anymore,’ he added.
The standalone site is the latest addition to the much-maligned service.
At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced it was turning Messenger into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’.
During the event Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five instruments tailored to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ mobile applications.
Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies, and make calls more lightly.
‘They are attempting to make Messenger a full-featured and rich media platform,’ Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at the conference.
‘I think that they are interested in letting people know that Facebook is not a single app company, it is an app constellation.’
Users log in with their Facebook credentials and the site automatically imports their contacts and current talks. These conversations are shown utter screen. No other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings (pictured) can be managed using the gear icon in the top left-hand corner
Messenger.com is the latest addition to the much-maligned service. At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg (pictured) announced it was turning Messenger application into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’ in a bid to wiggle up online communication
‘Voice calling has been ramping up, and by separating [Messenger], Facebook can make this feature available. It would be too cumbersome to add to the standard site,’ continued Mr Kent.
‘This also makes voicecalling lighter to deploy in other countries.’
Facebook-owned WhatsApp embarked rolling out its own internet calls to Android users this week, and the feature is coming to iOS ‘soon.’
One of the Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies, called Messenger Business.
‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said.
During the event, Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five products and contraptions to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ applications. Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies and make calls (left). And Messenger can now be used for making payments to friends (right)
And early last month Facebook announced Messenger can be used for making payments to friends, and that it was testing a ‘buy’ button to permit users to make purchases directly from Facebook pages.
Elsewhere, the Messenger team is working with playmates including ESPN and the Bad Robot film production company possessed by Hollywood director J.J. Abrams to release applications that work on the Messenger platform.
Additionally, Facebook introduced a instrument designed to make it effortless to take public movie posted on the social network and embed it on other sites.
Facebook launched Messenger back in two thousand eleven but split the app from Facebook at the commence of last year and compelled people to download both apps if they dreamed to use the two services.
One of these Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies (example pictured), called Messenger Business. ‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said
At the time, members said they were outraged by the switches and flocked to the respective app stores to complain.
They were also worried about the app’s permissions that gave Facebook access to send texts and make calls on the user’s device.
Facebook was then compelled to react with a blog post explaining why it needed certain permissions.
It said: ‘Almost all apps need certain permissions to run on Android, and we use these permissions to run features in the app.
‘Keep in mind that Android controls the way the permissions are named, and the way they’re named doesn’t necessarily reflect the way the Messenger app and other apps use them.’
Facebook takes on FaceTime with Messenger movie calls, Daily Mail Online
Facebook takes on FaceTime: Social network adds movie calls to Messenger in bid to topple rivals
By Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com 22:36 BST twenty seven Apr 2015, updated 07:25 BST twenty eight Apr two thousand fifteen
- Users of the Messenger app can now movie calls other users
- Fresh feature available on Android and iOS apps
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype, Apple’s FaceTime and other messaging apps..
The feature is presently available to users on iOS and Android operating systems, the company said.
Users can movie call their friends even if one of them is on Apple’s iOS and the other on an Android device.
Scroll down for movie
HOW IT WORKS
You can quickly commence a movie call from any conversation with just one tap.
If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the movie icon in the top right corner of the screen and begin a movie call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.
‘Today, we’re introducing movie calling in Messenger.
‘Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Messenger,’ wrote Stan Chudnovsky, Head of Product for Messenger and Param Reddy, Engineering Manager.
Messenger already offers people the capability to make voice calls to friends and loved ones around the world.
Movie calling will expand Messenger’s real-time communication features, enabling the more than six hundred million people who use Messenger every month.
Movie calling in Messenger is available for calls made from a mobile phone to another mobile phone, even if one person is on iOS and the other person is on an Android device.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference in March, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg said the social network would introduce myriad features within Messenger. For example, users can also send money to friends within the app. Facebook also unveiled a platform that enables developers to lightly create apps that function within Messenger.
Related Articles
‘Adding (movie calling) to Messenger instead of the main Facebook app maybe ties in to Messenger’s mission where it’s a real core person-to-person app,’ said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner Inc, a U.S. technology research and advisory stiff.
‘Now they’re indeed enticing people with more features.’
This is the latest feature released for Messenger, following the capability to send money to friends, the launch of Messenger Platform and the introduction of Businesses on Messenger, which Facebook says is coming soon.
Movie calling in Messenger is launching today for people on iOS and Android in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay.
Facebook faced a backlash last year for forcing users to download a separate Messenger app for mobile, and it looks like the web version is heading in the same direction.
Last month the social network launched Messenger.com – a standalone site that lets users talk to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app.
For the time being users can still send, receive and view messages on Facebook, and the site has not announced any current plans to liquidate this feature yet.
Facebook didn’t expose its future plans for the service, but told MailOnline: ‘We’re launching Messenger for web browsers – a standalone web talk product accessible via Messenger.com.
‘Once logged in, people can dive directly into a dedicated desktop messaging practice, keeping their conversations going and picking up where they left off.’
To use Messenger.com, users log in with Facebook credentials and the site will automatically import their contacts and current talks.
These conversations are shown utter screen, as opposed to the pop-up on Facebook or the half screen view on the main Facebook Messages page.
None of the other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings can be managed by clicking the gear icon in the top left-hand corner.
WHATSAPP ADDS VOICE CALLS
WhatsApp very first hinted it would let users make free calls to each other early last year.
Now Android users can make voice calls and the feature will come to iOS soon.
The latest version of the popular messaging app also has a cleaner layout with three tabs for contacts, talks and calls.
Users simply have to click on the ‘Calls’ tab and choose a contact to phone a friend at no cost.
However this only works inbetween WhatsApp users and it relies on an internet connection.
This menu lets users manage sounds, see desktop notifications and block users.
Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology told MailOnline that by splitting Facebook services, it reduces the different ways in which the site has to treat messages in its standard app and site.
‘With a portfolio of apps, there’s more room to manoeuvre; you don’t have to use Facebook anymore,’ he added.
The standalone site is the latest addition to the much-maligned service.
At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced it was turning Messenger into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’.
During the event Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five implements tailored to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ mobile applications.
Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies, and make calls more lightly.
‘They are attempting to make Messenger a full-featured and rich media platform,’ Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at the conference.
‘I think that they are interested in letting people know that Facebook is not a single app company, it is an app constellation.’
‘Voice calling has been ramping up, and by separating [Messenger], Facebook can make this feature available. It would be too cumbersome to add to the standard site,’ continued Mr Kent.
‘This also makes voicecalling lighter to deploy in other countries.’
Facebook-owned WhatsApp began rolling out its own internet calls to Android users this week, and the feature is coming to iOS ‘soon.’
One of the Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies, called Messenger Business.
‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said.
And early last month Facebook announced Messenger can be used for making payments to friends, and that it was testing a ‘buy’ button to permit users to make purchases directly from Facebook pages.
Elsewhere, the Messenger team is working with fucking partners including ESPN and the Bad Robot film production company possessed by Hollywood director J.J. Abrams to release applications that work on the Messenger platform.
Additionally, Facebook introduced a instrument designed to make it effortless to take public movie posted on the social network and embed it on other sites.
Facebook launched Messenger back in two thousand eleven but split the app from Facebook at the commence of last year and compelled people to download both apps if they dreamed to use the two services.
At the time, members said they were outraged by the switches and flocked to the respective app stores to complain.
They were also worried about the app’s permissions that gave Facebook access to send texts and make calls on the user’s device.
Facebook was then coerced to react with a blog post explaining why it needed certain permissions.
It said: ‘Almost all apps need certain permissions to run on Android, and we use these permissions to run features in the app.
‘Keep in mind that Android controls the way the permissions are named, and the way they’re named doesn’t necessarily reflect the way the Messenger app and other apps use them.’
Facebook takes on FaceTime with Messenger movie calls, Daily Mail Online
Facebook takes on FaceTime: Social network adds movie calls to Messenger in bid to topple rivals
By Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com 22:36 BST twenty seven Apr 2015, updated 07:25 BST twenty eight Apr two thousand fifteen
- Users of the Messenger app can now movie calls other users
- Fresh feature available on Android and iOS apps
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype, Apple’s FaceTime and other messaging apps..
The feature is presently available to users on iOS and Android operating systems, the company said.
Users can movie call their friends even if one of them is on Apple’s iOS and the other on an Android device.
Scroll down for movie
HOW IT WORKS
You can quickly commence a movie call from any conversation with just one tap.
If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the movie icon in the top right corner of the screen and begin a movie call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.
‘Today, we’re introducing movie calling in Messenger.
‘Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Messenger,’ wrote Stan Chudnovsky, Head of Product for Messenger and Param Reddy, Engineering Manager.
Messenger already offers people the capability to make voice calls to friends and loved ones around the world.
Movie calling will expand Messenger’s real-time communication features, enabling the more than six hundred million people who use Messenger every month.
Movie calling in Messenger is available for calls made from a mobile phone to another mobile phone, even if one person is on iOS and the other person is on an Android device.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference in March, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg said the social network would introduce myriad features within Messenger. For example, users can also send money to friends within the app. Facebook also unveiled a platform that enables developers to lightly create apps that function within Messenger.
Related Articles
‘Adding (movie calling) to Messenger instead of the main Facebook app maybe ties in to Messenger’s mission where it’s a real core person-to-person app,’ said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner Inc, a U.S. technology research and advisory stiff.
‘Now they’re indeed enticing people with more features.’
This is the latest feature released for Messenger, following the capability to send money to friends, the launch of Messenger Platform and the introduction of Businesses on Messenger, which Facebook says is coming soon.
Movie calling in Messenger is launching today for people on iOS and Android in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay.
Facebook faced a backlash last year for forcing users to download a separate Messenger app for mobile, and it looks like the web version is heading in the same direction.
Last month the social network launched Messenger.com – a standalone site that lets users talk to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app.
For the time being users can still send, receive and view messages on Facebook, and the site has not announced any current plans to liquidate this feature yet.
Facebook didn’t expose its future plans for the service, but told MailOnline: ‘We’re launching Messenger for web browsers – a standalone web talk product accessible via Messenger.com.
‘Once logged in, people can dive directly into a dedicated desktop messaging practice, keeping their conversations going and picking up where they left off.’
To use Messenger.com, users log in with Facebook credentials and the site will automatically import their contacts and current talks.
These conversations are shown total screen, as opposed to the pop-up on Facebook or the half screen view on the main Facebook Messages page.
None of the other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings can be managed by clicking the gear icon in the top left-hand corner.
WHATSAPP ADDS VOICE CALLS
WhatsApp very first hinted it would let users make free calls to each other early last year.
Now Android users can make voice calls and the feature will come to iOS soon.
The latest version of the popular messaging app also has a cleaner layout with three tabs for contacts, talks and calls.
Users simply have to click on the ‘Calls’ tab and choose a contact to phone a friend at no cost.
However this only works inbetween WhatsApp users and it relies on an internet connection.
This menu lets users manage sounds, see desktop notifications and block users.
Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology told MailOnline that by splitting Facebook services, it reduces the different ways in which the site has to treat messages in its standard app and site.
‘With a portfolio of apps, there’s more room to manoeuvre; you don’t have to use Facebook anymore,’ he added.
The standalone site is the latest addition to the much-maligned service.
At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced it was turning Messenger into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’.
During the event Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five implements tailored to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ mobile applications.
Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies, and make calls more lightly.
‘They are attempting to make Messenger a full-featured and rich media platform,’ Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at the conference.
‘I think that they are interested in letting people know that Facebook is not a single app company, it is an app constellation.’
‘Voice calling has been ramping up, and by separating [Messenger], Facebook can make this feature available. It would be too cumbersome to add to the standard site,’ continued Mr Kent.
‘This also makes voicecalling lighter to deploy in other countries.’
Facebook-owned WhatsApp began rolling out its own internet calls to Android users this week, and the feature is coming to iOS ‘soon.’
One of the Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies, called Messenger Business.
‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said.
And early last month Facebook announced Messenger can be used for making payments to friends, and that it was testing a ‘buy’ button to permit users to make purchases directly from Facebook pages.
Elsewhere, the Messenger team is working with fucking partners including ESPN and the Bad Robot film production company possessed by Hollywood director J.J. Abrams to release applications that work on the Messenger platform.
Additionally, Facebook introduced a contraption designed to make it effortless to take public movie posted on the social network and embed it on other sites.
Facebook launched Messenger back in two thousand eleven but split the app from Facebook at the begin of last year and coerced people to download both apps if they dreamed to use the two services.
At the time, members said they were outraged by the switches and flocked to the respective app stores to complain.
They were also worried about the app’s permissions that gave Facebook access to send texts and make calls on the user’s device.
Facebook was then compelled to react with a blog post explaining why it needed certain permissions.
It said: ‘Almost all apps need certain permissions to run on Android, and we use these permissions to run features in the app.
‘Keep in mind that Android controls the way the permissions are named, and the way they’re named doesn’t necessarily reflect the way the Messenger app and other apps use them.’
Facebook takes on FaceTime with Messenger movie calls, Daily Mail Online
Facebook takes on FaceTime: Social network adds movie calls to Messenger in bid to topple rivals
By Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com 22:36 BST twenty seven Apr 2015, updated 07:25 BST twenty eight Apr two thousand fifteen
- Users of the Messenger app can now movie calls other users
- Fresh feature available on Android and iOS apps
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype, Apple’s FaceTime and other messaging apps..
The feature is presently available to users on iOS and Android operating systems, the company said.
Users can movie call their friends even if one of them is on Apple’s iOS and the other on an Android device.
Scroll down for movie
HOW IT WORKS
You can quickly embark a movie call from any conversation with just one tap.
If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the movie icon in the top right corner of the screen and embark a movie call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.
‘Today, we’re introducing movie calling in Messenger.
‘Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Messenger,’ wrote Stan Chudnovsky, Head of Product for Messenger and Param Reddy, Engineering Manager.
Messenger already offers people the capability to make voice calls to friends and loved ones around the world.
Movie calling will expand Messenger’s real-time communication features, enabling the more than six hundred million people who use Messenger every month.
Movie calling in Messenger is available for calls made from a mobile phone to another mobile phone, even if one person is on iOS and the other person is on an Android device.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference in March, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg said the social network would introduce myriad features within Messenger. For example, users can also send money to friends within the app. Facebook also unveiled a platform that enables developers to lightly create apps that function within Messenger.
Related Articles
‘Adding (movie calling) to Messenger instead of the main Facebook app maybe ties in to Messenger’s mission where it’s a real core person-to-person app,’ said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner Inc, a U.S. technology research and advisory rigid.
‘Now they’re truly enticing people with more features.’
This is the latest feature released for Messenger, following the capability to send money to friends, the launch of Messenger Platform and the introduction of Businesses on Messenger, which Facebook says is coming soon.
Movie calling in Messenger is launching today for people on iOS and Android in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay.
Facebook faced a backlash last year for forcing users to download a separate Messenger app for mobile, and it looks like the web version is heading in the same direction.
Last month the social network launched Messenger.com – a standalone site that lets users talk to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app.
For the time being users can still send, receive and view messages on Facebook, and the site has not announced any current plans to eliminate this feature yet.
Facebook didn’t expose its future plans for the service, but told MailOnline: ‘We’re launching Messenger for web browsers – a standalone web talk product accessible via Messenger.com.
‘Once logged in, people can dive directly into a dedicated desktop messaging practice, keeping their conversations going and picking up where they left off.’
To use Messenger.com, users log in with Facebook credentials and the site will automatically import their contacts and current talks.
These conversations are shown total screen, as opposed to the pop-up on Facebook or the half screen view on the main Facebook Messages page.
None of the other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings can be managed by clicking the gear icon in the top left-hand corner.
WHATSAPP ADDS VOICE CALLS
WhatsApp very first hinted it would let users make free calls to each other early last year.
Now Android users can make voice calls and the feature will come to iOS soon.
The latest version of the popular messaging app also has a cleaner layout with three tabs for contacts, talks and calls.
Users simply have to click on the ‘Calls’ tab and choose a contact to phone a friend at no cost.
However this only works inbetween WhatsApp users and it relies on an internet connection.
This menu lets users manage sounds, see desktop notifications and block users.
Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology told MailOnline that by splitting Facebook services, it reduces the different ways in which the site has to treat messages in its standard app and site.
‘With a portfolio of apps, there’s more room to manoeuvre; you don’t have to use Facebook anymore,’ he added.
The standalone site is the latest addition to the much-maligned service.
At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced it was turning Messenger into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’.
During the event Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five devices tailored to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ mobile applications.
Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies, and make calls more lightly.
‘They are attempting to make Messenger a full-featured and rich media platform,’ Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at the conference.
‘I think that they are interested in letting people know that Facebook is not a single app company, it is an app constellation.’
‘Voice calling has been ramping up, and by separating [Messenger], Facebook can make this feature available. It would be too cumbersome to add to the standard site,’ continued Mr Kent.
‘This also makes voicecalling lighter to deploy in other countries.’
Facebook-owned WhatsApp began rolling out its own internet calls to Android users this week, and the feature is coming to iOS ‘soon.’
One of the Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies, called Messenger Business.
‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said.
And early last month Facebook announced Messenger can be used for making payments to friends, and that it was testing a ‘buy’ button to permit users to make purchases directly from Facebook pages.
Elsewhere, the Messenger team is working with playmates including ESPN and the Bad Robot film production company possessed by Hollywood director J.J. Abrams to release applications that work on the Messenger platform.
Additionally, Facebook introduced a implement designed to make it effortless to take public movie posted on the social network and embed it on other sites.
Facebook launched Messenger back in two thousand eleven but split the app from Facebook at the embark of last year and coerced people to download both apps if they desired to use the two services.
At the time, members said they were outraged by the switches and flocked to the respective app stores to complain.
They were also worried about the app’s permissions that gave Facebook access to send texts and make calls on the user’s device.
Facebook was then compelled to react with a blog post explaining why it needed certain permissions.
It said: ‘Almost all apps need certain permissions to run on Android, and we use these permissions to run features in the app.
‘Keep in mind that Android controls the way the permissions are named, and the way they’re named doesn’t necessarily reflect the way the Messenger app and other apps use them.’
Facebook takes on FaceTime with Messenger movie calls, Daily Mail Online
Facebook takes on FaceTime: Social network adds movie calls to Messenger in bid to topple rivals
By Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com 22:36 BST twenty seven Apr 2015, updated 07:25 BST twenty eight Apr two thousand fifteen
- Users of the Messenger app can now movie calls other users
- Fresh feature available on Android and iOS apps
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype, Apple’s FaceTime and other messaging apps..
The feature is presently available to users on iOS and Android operating systems, the company said.
Users can movie call their friends even if one of them is on Apple’s iOS and the other on an Android device.
Scroll down for movie
HOW IT WORKS
You can quickly embark a movie call from any conversation with just one tap.
If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the movie icon in the top right corner of the screen and commence a movie call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.
‘Today, we’re introducing movie calling in Messenger.
‘Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Messenger,’ wrote Stan Chudnovsky, Head of Product for Messenger and Param Reddy, Engineering Manager.
Messenger already offers people the capability to make voice calls to friends and loved ones around the world.
Movie calling will expand Messenger’s real-time communication features, enabling the more than six hundred million people who use Messenger every month.
Movie calling in Messenger is available for calls made from a mobile phone to another mobile phone, even if one person is on iOS and the other person is on an Android device.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference in March, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg said the social network would introduce myriad features within Messenger. For example, users can also send money to friends within the app. Facebook also unveiled a platform that enables developers to lightly create apps that function within Messenger.
Related Articles
‘Adding (movie calling) to Messenger instead of the main Facebook app maybe ties in to Messenger’s mission where it’s a real core person-to-person app,’ said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner Inc, a U.S. technology research and advisory rigid.
‘Now they’re indeed enticing people with more features.’
This is the latest feature released for Messenger, following the capability to send money to friends, the launch of Messenger Platform and the introduction of Businesses on Messenger, which Facebook says is coming soon.
Movie calling in Messenger is launching today for people on iOS and Android in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay.
Facebook faced a backlash last year for forcing users to download a separate Messenger app for mobile, and it looks like the web version is heading in the same direction.
Last month the social network launched Messenger.com – a standalone site that lets users talk to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app.
For the time being users can still send, receive and view messages on Facebook, and the site has not announced any current plans to eliminate this feature yet.
Facebook didn’t expose its future plans for the service, but told MailOnline: ‘We’re launching Messenger for web browsers – a standalone web talk product accessible via Messenger.com.
‘Once logged in, people can dive directly into a dedicated desktop messaging practice, keeping their conversations going and picking up where they left off.’
To use Messenger.com, users log in with Facebook credentials and the site will automatically import their contacts and current talks.
These conversations are shown total screen, as opposed to the pop-up on Facebook or the half screen view on the main Facebook Messages page.
None of the other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings can be managed by clicking the gear icon in the top left-hand corner.
WHATSAPP ADDS VOICE CALLS
WhatsApp very first hinted it would let users make free calls to each other early last year.
Now Android users can make voice calls and the feature will come to iOS soon.
The latest version of the popular messaging app also has a cleaner layout with three tabs for contacts, talks and calls.
Users simply have to click on the ‘Calls’ tab and choose a contact to phone a friend at no cost.
However this only works inbetween WhatsApp users and it relies on an internet connection.
This menu lets users manage sounds, see desktop notifications and block users.
Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology told MailOnline that by splitting Facebook services, it reduces the different ways in which the site has to treat messages in its standard app and site.
‘With a portfolio of apps, there’s more room to manoeuvre; you don’t have to use Facebook anymore,’ he added.
The standalone site is the latest addition to the much-maligned service.
At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced it was turning Messenger into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’.
During the event Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five contraptions tailored to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ mobile applications.
Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies, and make calls more lightly.
‘They are attempting to make Messenger a full-featured and rich media platform,’ Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at the conference.
‘I think that they are interested in letting people know that Facebook is not a single app company, it is an app constellation.’
‘Voice calling has been ramping up, and by separating [Messenger], Facebook can make this feature available. It would be too cumbersome to add to the standard site,’ continued Mr Kent.
‘This also makes voicecalling lighter to deploy in other countries.’
Facebook-owned WhatsApp began rolling out its own internet calls to Android users this week, and the feature is coming to iOS ‘soon.’
One of the Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies, called Messenger Business.
‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said.
And early last month Facebook announced Messenger can be used for making payments to friends, and that it was testing a ‘buy’ button to permit users to make purchases directly from Facebook pages.
Elsewhere, the Messenger team is working with fucking partners including ESPN and the Bad Robot film production company possessed by Hollywood director J.J. Abrams to release applications that work on the Messenger platform.
Additionally, Facebook introduced a device designed to make it effortless to take public movie posted on the social network and embed it on other sites.
Facebook launched Messenger back in two thousand eleven but split the app from Facebook at the commence of last year and coerced people to download both apps if they dreamed to use the two services.
At the time, members said they were outraged by the switches and flocked to the respective app stores to complain.
They were also worried about the app’s permissions that gave Facebook access to send texts and make calls on the user’s device.
Facebook was then compelled to react with a blog post explaining why it needed certain permissions.
It said: ‘Almost all apps need certain permissions to run on Android, and we use these permissions to run features in the app.
‘Keep in mind that Android controls the way the permissions are named, and the way they’re named doesn’t necessarily reflect the way the Messenger app and other apps use them.’
Facebook takes on FaceTime with Messenger movie calls, Daily Mail Online
Facebook takes on FaceTime: Social network adds movie calls to Messenger in bid to topple rivals
By Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com 22:36 BST twenty seven Apr 2015, updated 07:25 BST twenty eight Apr two thousand fifteen
- Users of the Messenger app can now movie calls other users
- Fresh feature available on Android and iOS apps
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype, Apple’s FaceTime and other messaging apps..
The feature is presently available to users on iOS and Android operating systems, the company said.
Users can movie call their friends even if one of them is on Apple’s iOS and the other on an Android device.
Scroll down for movie
HOW IT WORKS
You can quickly commence a movie call from any conversation with just one tap.
If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the movie icon in the top right corner of the screen and commence a movie call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.
‘Today, we’re introducing movie calling in Messenger.
‘Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Messenger,’ wrote Stan Chudnovsky, Head of Product for Messenger and Param Reddy, Engineering Manager.
Messenger already offers people the capability to make voice calls to friends and loved ones around the world.
Movie calling will expand Messenger’s real-time communication features, enabling the more than six hundred million people who use Messenger every month.
Movie calling in Messenger is available for calls made from a mobile phone to another mobile phone, even if one person is on iOS and the other person is on an Android device.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference in March, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg said the social network would introduce myriad features within Messenger. For example, users can also send money to friends within the app. Facebook also unveiled a platform that enables developers to lightly create apps that function within Messenger.
Related Articles
‘Adding (movie calling) to Messenger instead of the main Facebook app maybe ties in to Messenger’s mission where it’s a real core person-to-person app,’ said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner Inc, a U.S. technology research and advisory rock hard.
‘Now they’re indeed enticing people with more features.’
This is the latest feature released for Messenger, following the capability to send money to friends, the launch of Messenger Platform and the introduction of Businesses on Messenger, which Facebook says is coming soon.
Movie calling in Messenger is launching today for people on iOS and Android in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay.
Facebook faced a backlash last year for forcing users to download a separate Messenger app for mobile, and it looks like the web version is heading in the same direction.
Last month the social network launched Messenger.com – a standalone site that lets users talk to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app.
For the time being users can still send, receive and view messages on Facebook, and the site has not announced any current plans to eliminate this feature yet.
Facebook didn’t expose its future plans for the service, but told MailOnline: ‘We’re launching Messenger for web browsers – a standalone web talk product accessible via Messenger.com.
‘Once logged in, people can dive directly into a dedicated desktop messaging practice, keeping their conversations going and picking up where they left off.’
To use Messenger.com, users log in with Facebook credentials and the site will automatically import their contacts and current talks.
These conversations are shown total screen, as opposed to the pop-up on Facebook or the half screen view on the main Facebook Messages page.
None of the other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings can be managed by clicking the gear icon in the top left-hand corner.
WHATSAPP ADDS VOICE CALLS
WhatsApp very first hinted it would let users make free calls to each other early last year.
Now Android users can make voice calls and the feature will come to iOS soon.
The latest version of the popular messaging app also has a cleaner layout with three tabs for contacts, talks and calls.
Users simply have to click on the ‘Calls’ tab and choose a contact to phone a friend at no cost.
However this only works inbetween WhatsApp users and it relies on an internet connection.
This menu lets users manage sounds, see desktop notifications and block users.
Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology told MailOnline that by splitting Facebook services, it reduces the different ways in which the site has to treat messages in its standard app and site.
‘With a portfolio of apps, there’s more room to manoeuvre; you don’t have to use Facebook anymore,’ he added.
The standalone site is the latest addition to the much-maligned service.
At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced it was turning Messenger into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’.
During the event Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five instruments tailored to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ mobile applications.
Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies, and make calls more lightly.
‘They are attempting to make Messenger a full-featured and rich media platform,’ Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at the conference.
‘I think that they are interested in letting people know that Facebook is not a single app company, it is an app constellation.’
‘Voice calling has been ramping up, and by separating [Messenger], Facebook can make this feature available. It would be too cumbersome to add to the standard site,’ continued Mr Kent.
‘This also makes voicecalling lighter to deploy in other countries.’
Facebook-owned WhatsApp commenced rolling out its own internet calls to Android users this week, and the feature is coming to iOS ‘soon.’
One of the Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies, called Messenger Business.
‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said.
And early last month Facebook announced Messenger can be used for making payments to friends, and that it was testing a ‘buy’ button to permit users to make purchases directly from Facebook pages.
Elsewhere, the Messenger team is working with fucking partners including ESPN and the Bad Robot film production company wielded by Hollywood director J.J. Abrams to release applications that work on the Messenger platform.
Additionally, Facebook introduced a contraption designed to make it effortless to take public movie posted on the social network and embed it on other sites.
Facebook launched Messenger back in two thousand eleven but split the app from Facebook at the commence of last year and compelled people to download both apps if they desired to use the two services.
At the time, members said they were outraged by the switches and flocked to the respective app stores to complain.
They were also worried about the app’s permissions that gave Facebook access to send texts and make calls on the user’s device.
Facebook was then coerced to react with a blog post explaining why it needed certain permissions.
It said: ‘Almost all apps need certain permissions to run on Android, and we use these permissions to run features in the app.
‘Keep in mind that Android controls the way the permissions are named, and the way they’re named doesn’t necessarily reflect the way the Messenger app and other apps use them.’
Facebook takes on FaceTime with Messenger movie calls, Daily Mail Online
Facebook takes on FaceTime: Social network adds movie calls to Messenger in bid to topple rivals
Published: 22:36 BST, twenty seven April two thousand fifteen | Updated: 07:25 BST, twenty eight April two thousand fifteen
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype, Apple’s FaceTime and other messaging apps..
The feature is presently available to users on iOS and Android operating systems, the company said.
Users can movie call their friends even if one of them is on Apple’s iOS and the other on an Android device.
Scroll down for movie
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype and Apple’s FaceTime.
HOW IT WORKS
You can quickly embark a movie call from any conversation with just one tap.
If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the movie icon in the top right corner of the screen and begin a movie call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.
‘Today, we’re introducing movie calling in Messenger.
‘Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Messenger,’ wrote Stan Chudnovsky, Head of Product for Messenger and Param Reddy, Engineering Manager.
Messenger already offers people the capability to make voice calls to friends and loved ones around the world.
Movie calling will expand Messenger’s real-time communication features, enabling the more than six hundred million people who use Messenger every month.
Movie calling in Messenger is available for calls made from a mobile phone to another mobile phone, even if one person is on iOS and the other person is on an Android device.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference in March, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg said the social network would introduce myriad features within Messenger. For example, users can also send money to friends within the app. Facebook also unveiled a platform that enables developers to lightly create apps that function within Messenger.
RELATED ARTICLES
Share this article
‘Adding (movie calling) to Messenger instead of the main Facebook app maybe ties in to Messenger’s mission where it’s a real core person-to-person app,’ said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner Inc, a U.S. technology research and advisory rock-hard.
‘Now they’re truly enticing people with more features.’
This is the latest feature released for Messenger, following the capability to send money to friends, the launch of Messenger Platform and the introduction of Businesses on Messenger, which Facebook says is coming soon.
Movie calling in Messenger is launching today for people on iOS and Android in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay.
Facebook faced a backlash last year for forcing users to download a separate Messenger app for mobile, and it looks like the web version is heading in the same direction.
Last month the social network launched Messenger.com – a standalone site that lets users talk to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app.
For the time being users can still send, receive and view messages on Facebook, and the site has not announced any current plans to eliminate this feature yet.
Facebook has launched Messenger.com (pictured) – a standalone site that lets people talk to their Facebook contacts, commence group conversations and send photos in the same way they can on the app. Users can still send and receive messages on Facebook and it is not known yet whether this will be eliminated in due course.
Facebook didn’t expose its future plans for the service, but told MailOnline: ‘We’re launching Messenger for web browsers – a standalone web talk product accessible via Messenger.com.
‘Once logged in, people can dive directly into a dedicated desktop messaging practice, keeping their conversations going and picking up where they left off.’
To use Messenger.com, users log in with Facebook credentials and the site will automatically import their contacts and current talks.
These conversations are shown utter screen, as opposed to the pop-up on Facebook or the half screen view on the main Facebook Messages page.
None of the other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings can be managed by clicking the gear icon in the top left-hand corner.
WHATSAPP ADDS VOICE CALLS
WhatsApp very first hinted it would let users make free calls to each other early last year.
Now Android users can make voice calls and the feature will come to iOS soon.
The latest version of the popular messaging app also has a cleaner layout with three tabs for contacts, talks and calls.
Users simply have to click on the ‘Calls’ tab and choose a contact to phone a friend at no cost.
However this only works inbetween WhatsApp users and it relies on an internet connection.
This menu lets users manage sounds, see desktop notifications and block users.
Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology told MailOnline that by splitting Facebook services, it reduces the different ways in which the site has to treat messages in its standard app and site.
‘With a portfolio of apps, there’s more room to manoeuvre; you don’t have to use Facebook anymore,’ he added.
The standalone site is the latest addition to the much-maligned service.
At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced it was turning Messenger into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’.
During the event Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five devices tailored to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ mobile applications.
Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies, and make calls more lightly.
‘They are attempting to make Messenger a full-featured and rich media platform,’ Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at the conference.
‘I think that they are interested in letting people know that Facebook is not a single app company, it is an app constellation.’
Users log in with their Facebook credentials and the site automatically imports their contacts and current talks. These conversations are shown utter screen. No other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings (pictured) can be managed using the gear icon in the top left-hand corner
Messenger.com is the latest addition to the much-maligned service. At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg (pictured) announced it was turning Messenger application into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’ in a bid to wiggle up online communication
‘Voice calling has been ramping up, and by separating [Messenger], Facebook can make this feature available. It would be too cumbersome to add to the standard site,’ continued Mr Kent.
‘This also makes voicecalling lighter to deploy in other countries.’
Facebook-owned WhatsApp embarked rolling out its own internet calls to Android users this week, and the feature is coming to iOS ‘soon.’
One of the Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies, called Messenger Business.
‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said.
During the event, Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five products and instruments to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ applications. Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies and make calls (left). And Messenger can now be used for making payments to friends (right)
And early last month Facebook announced Messenger can be used for making payments to friends, and that it was testing a ‘buy’ button to permit users to make purchases directly from Facebook pages.
Elsewhere, the Messenger team is working with fucking partners including ESPN and the Bad Robot film production company wielded by Hollywood director J.J. Abrams to release applications that work on the Messenger platform.
Additionally, Facebook introduced a implement designed to make it effortless to take public movie posted on the social network and embed it on other sites.
Facebook launched Messenger back in two thousand eleven but split the app from Facebook at the begin of last year and compelled people to download both apps if they desired to use the two services.
One of these Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies (example pictured), called Messenger Business. ‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said
At the time, members said they were outraged by the switches and flocked to the respective app stores to complain.
They were also worried about the app’s permissions that gave Facebook access to send texts and make calls on the user’s device.
Facebook was then compelled to react with a blog post explaining why it needed certain permissions.
It said: ‘Almost all apps need certain permissions to run on Android, and we use these permissions to run features in the app.
‘Keep in mind that Android controls the way the permissions are named, and the way they’re named doesn’t necessarily reflect the way the Messenger app and other apps use them.’
Facebook takes on FaceTime with Messenger movie calls, Daily Mail Online
Facebook takes on FaceTime: Social network adds movie calls to Messenger in bid to topple rivals
Published: 22:36 BST, twenty seven April two thousand fifteen | Updated: 07:25 BST, twenty eight April two thousand fifteen
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype, Apple’s FaceTime and other messaging apps..
The feature is presently available to users on iOS and Android operating systems, the company said.
Users can movie call their friends even if one of them is on Apple’s iOS and the other on an Android device.
Scroll down for movie
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype and Apple’s FaceTime.
HOW IT WORKS
You can quickly begin a movie call from any conversation with just one tap.
If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the movie icon in the top right corner of the screen and begin a movie call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.
‘Today, we’re introducing movie calling in Messenger.
‘Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Messenger,’ wrote Stan Chudnovsky, Head of Product for Messenger and Param Reddy, Engineering Manager.
Messenger already offers people the capability to make voice calls to friends and loved ones around the world.
Movie calling will expand Messenger’s real-time communication features, enabling the more than six hundred million people who use Messenger every month.
Movie calling in Messenger is available for calls made from a mobile phone to another mobile phone, even if one person is on iOS and the other person is on an Android device.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference in March, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg said the social network would introduce myriad features within Messenger. For example, users can also send money to friends within the app. Facebook also unveiled a platform that enables developers to lightly create apps that function within Messenger.
RELATED ARTICLES
Share this article
‘Adding (movie calling) to Messenger instead of the main Facebook app maybe ties in to Messenger’s mission where it’s a real core person-to-person app,’ said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner Inc, a U.S. technology research and advisory stiff.
‘Now they’re indeed enticing people with more features.’
This is the latest feature released for Messenger, following the capability to send money to friends, the launch of Messenger Platform and the introduction of Businesses on Messenger, which Facebook says is coming soon.
Movie calling in Messenger is launching today for people on iOS and Android in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay.
Facebook faced a backlash last year for forcing users to download a separate Messenger app for mobile, and it looks like the web version is heading in the same direction.
Last month the social network launched Messenger.com – a standalone site that lets users talk to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app.
For the time being users can still send, receive and view messages on Facebook, and the site has not announced any current plans to eliminate this feature yet.
Facebook has launched Messenger.com (pictured) – a standalone site that lets people talk to their Facebook contacts, embark group conversations and send photos in the same way they can on the app. Users can still send and receive messages on Facebook and it is not known yet whether this will be eliminated in due course.
Facebook didn’t expose its future plans for the service, but told MailOnline: ‘We’re launching Messenger for web browsers – a standalone web talk product accessible via Messenger.com.
‘Once logged in, people can dive directly into a dedicated desktop messaging practice, keeping their conversations going and picking up where they left off.’
To use Messenger.com, users log in with Facebook credentials and the site will automatically import their contacts and current talks.
These conversations are shown utter screen, as opposed to the pop-up on Facebook or the half screen view on the main Facebook Messages page.
None of the other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings can be managed by clicking the gear icon in the top left-hand corner.
WHATSAPP ADDS VOICE CALLS
WhatsApp very first hinted it would let users make free calls to each other early last year.
Now Android users can make voice calls and the feature will come to iOS soon.
The latest version of the popular messaging app also has a cleaner layout with three tabs for contacts, talks and calls.
Users simply have to click on the ‘Calls’ tab and choose a contact to phone a friend at no cost.
However this only works inbetween WhatsApp users and it relies on an internet connection.
This menu lets users manage sounds, see desktop notifications and block users.
Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology told MailOnline that by splitting Facebook services, it reduces the different ways in which the site has to treat messages in its standard app and site.
‘With a portfolio of apps, there’s more room to manoeuvre; you don’t have to use Facebook anymore,’ he added.
The standalone site is the latest addition to the much-maligned service.
At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced it was turning Messenger into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’.
During the event Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five instruments tailored to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ mobile applications.
Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies, and make calls more lightly.
‘They are attempting to make Messenger a full-featured and rich media platform,’ Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at the conference.
‘I think that they are interested in letting people know that Facebook is not a single app company, it is an app constellation.’
Users log in with their Facebook credentials and the site automatically imports their contacts and current talks. These conversations are shown total screen. No other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings (pictured) can be managed using the gear icon in the top left-hand corner
Messenger.com is the latest addition to the much-maligned service. At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg (pictured) announced it was turning Messenger application into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’ in a bid to wiggle up online communication
‘Voice calling has been ramping up, and by separating [Messenger], Facebook can make this feature available. It would be too cumbersome to add to the standard site,’ continued Mr Kent.
‘This also makes voicecalling lighter to deploy in other countries.’
Facebook-owned WhatsApp embarked rolling out its own internet calls to Android users this week, and the feature is coming to iOS ‘soon.’
One of the Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies, called Messenger Business.
‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said.
During the event, Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five products and instruments to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ applications. Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies and make calls (left). And Messenger can now be used for making payments to friends (right)
And early last month Facebook announced Messenger can be used for making payments to friends, and that it was testing a ‘buy’ button to permit users to make purchases directly from Facebook pages.
Elsewhere, the Messenger team is working with fucking partners including ESPN and the Bad Robot film production company wielded by Hollywood director J.J. Abrams to release applications that work on the Messenger platform.
Additionally, Facebook introduced a device designed to make it effortless to take public movie posted on the social network and embed it on other sites.
Facebook launched Messenger back in two thousand eleven but split the app from Facebook at the embark of last year and coerced people to download both apps if they wished to use the two services.
One of these Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies (example pictured), called Messenger Business. ‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said
At the time, members said they were outraged by the switches and flocked to the respective app stores to complain.
They were also worried about the app’s permissions that gave Facebook access to send texts and make calls on the user’s device.
Facebook was then compelled to react with a blog post explaining why it needed certain permissions.
It said: ‘Almost all apps need certain permissions to run on Android, and we use these permissions to run features in the app.
‘Keep in mind that Android controls the way the permissions are named, and the way they’re named doesn’t necessarily reflect the way the Messenger app and other apps use them.’
Facebook takes on FaceTime with Messenger movie calls, Daily Mail Online
Facebook takes on FaceTime: Social network adds movie calls to Messenger in bid to topple rivals
By Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com 22:36 BST twenty seven Apr 2015, updated 07:25 BST twenty eight Apr two thousand fifteen
- Users of the Messenger app can now movie calls other users
- Fresh feature available on Android and iOS apps
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype, Apple’s FaceTime and other messaging apps..
The feature is presently available to users on iOS and Android operating systems, the company said.
Users can movie call their friends even if one of them is on Apple’s iOS and the other on an Android device.
Scroll down for movie
HOW IT WORKS
You can quickly commence a movie call from any conversation with just one tap.
If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the movie icon in the top right corner of the screen and embark a movie call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.
‘Today, we’re introducing movie calling in Messenger.
‘Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Messenger,’ wrote Stan Chudnovsky, Head of Product for Messenger and Param Reddy, Engineering Manager.
Messenger already offers people the capability to make voice calls to friends and loved ones around the world.
Movie calling will expand Messenger’s real-time communication features, enabling the more than six hundred million people who use Messenger every month.
Movie calling in Messenger is available for calls made from a mobile phone to another mobile phone, even if one person is on iOS and the other person is on an Android device.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference in March, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg said the social network would introduce myriad features within Messenger. For example, users can also send money to friends within the app. Facebook also unveiled a platform that enables developers to lightly create apps that function within Messenger.
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‘Adding (movie calling) to Messenger instead of the main Facebook app maybe ties in to Messenger’s mission where it’s a real core person-to-person app,’ said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner Inc, a U.S. technology research and advisory rock-hard.
‘Now they’re truly enticing people with more features.’
This is the latest feature released for Messenger, following the capability to send money to friends, the launch of Messenger Platform and the introduction of Businesses on Messenger, which Facebook says is coming soon.
Movie calling in Messenger is launching today for people on iOS and Android in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay.
Facebook faced a backlash last year for forcing users to download a separate Messenger app for mobile, and it looks like the web version is heading in the same direction.
Last month the social network launched Messenger.com – a standalone site that lets users talk to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app.
For the time being users can still send, receive and view messages on Facebook, and the site has not announced any current plans to liquidate this feature yet.
Facebook didn’t expose its future plans for the service, but told MailOnline: ‘We’re launching Messenger for web browsers – a standalone web talk product accessible via Messenger.com.
‘Once logged in, people can dive directly into a dedicated desktop messaging practice, keeping their conversations going and picking up where they left off.’
To use Messenger.com, users log in with Facebook credentials and the site will automatically import their contacts and current talks.
These conversations are shown utter screen, as opposed to the pop-up on Facebook or the half screen view on the main Facebook Messages page.
None of the other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings can be managed by clicking the gear icon in the top left-hand corner.
WHATSAPP ADDS VOICE CALLS
WhatsApp very first hinted it would let users make free calls to each other early last year.
Now Android users can make voice calls and the feature will come to iOS soon.
The latest version of the popular messaging app also has a cleaner layout with three tabs for contacts, talks and calls.
Users simply have to click on the ‘Calls’ tab and choose a contact to phone a friend at no cost.
However this only works inbetween WhatsApp users and it relies on an internet connection.
This menu lets users manage sounds, see desktop notifications and block users.
Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology told MailOnline that by splitting Facebook services, it reduces the different ways in which the site has to treat messages in its standard app and site.
‘With a portfolio of apps, there’s more room to manoeuvre; you don’t have to use Facebook anymore,’ he added.
The standalone site is the latest addition to the much-maligned service.
At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced it was turning Messenger into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’.
During the event Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five contraptions tailored to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ mobile applications.
Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies, and make calls more lightly.
‘They are attempting to make Messenger a full-featured and rich media platform,’ Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at the conference.
‘I think that they are interested in letting people know that Facebook is not a single app company, it is an app constellation.’
‘Voice calling has been ramping up, and by separating [Messenger], Facebook can make this feature available. It would be too cumbersome to add to the standard site,’ continued Mr Kent.
‘This also makes voicecalling lighter to deploy in other countries.’
Facebook-owned WhatsApp began rolling out its own internet calls to Android users this week, and the feature is coming to iOS ‘soon.’
One of the Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies, called Messenger Business.
‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said.
And early last month Facebook announced Messenger can be used for making payments to friends, and that it was testing a ‘buy’ button to permit users to make purchases directly from Facebook pages.
Elsewhere, the Messenger team is working with fucking partners including ESPN and the Bad Robot film production company wielded by Hollywood director J.J. Abrams to release applications that work on the Messenger platform.
Additionally, Facebook introduced a device designed to make it effortless to take public movie posted on the social network and embed it on other sites.
Facebook launched Messenger back in two thousand eleven but split the app from Facebook at the embark of last year and coerced people to download both apps if they wished to use the two services.
At the time, members said they were outraged by the switches and flocked to the respective app stores to complain.
They were also worried about the app’s permissions that gave Facebook access to send texts and make calls on the user’s device.
Facebook was then compelled to react with a blog post explaining why it needed certain permissions.
It said: ‘Almost all apps need certain permissions to run on Android, and we use these permissions to run features in the app.
‘Keep in mind that Android controls the way the permissions are named, and the way they’re named doesn’t necessarily reflect the way the Messenger app and other apps use them.’
Facebook takes on FaceTime with Messenger movie calls, Daily Mail Online
Facebook takes on FaceTime: Social network adds movie calls to Messenger in bid to topple rivals
By Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com 22:36 BST twenty seven Apr 2015, updated 07:25 BST twenty eight Apr two thousand fifteen
- Users of the Messenger app can now movie calls other users
- Fresh feature available on Android and iOS apps
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype, Apple’s FaceTime and other messaging apps..
The feature is presently available to users on iOS and Android operating systems, the company said.
Users can movie call their friends even if one of them is on Apple’s iOS and the other on an Android device.
Scroll down for movie
HOW IT WORKS
You can quickly begin a movie call from any conversation with just one tap.
If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the movie icon in the top right corner of the screen and embark a movie call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.
‘Today, we’re introducing movie calling in Messenger.
‘Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Messenger,’ wrote Stan Chudnovsky, Head of Product for Messenger and Param Reddy, Engineering Manager.
Messenger already offers people the capability to make voice calls to friends and loved ones around the world.
Movie calling will expand Messenger’s real-time communication features, enabling the more than six hundred million people who use Messenger every month.
Movie calling in Messenger is available for calls made from a mobile phone to another mobile phone, even if one person is on iOS and the other person is on an Android device.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference in March, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg said the social network would introduce myriad features within Messenger. For example, users can also send money to friends within the app. Facebook also unveiled a platform that enables developers to lightly create apps that function within Messenger.
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‘Adding (movie calling) to Messenger instead of the main Facebook app maybe ties in to Messenger’s mission where it’s a real core person-to-person app,’ said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner Inc, a U.S. technology research and advisory rock hard.
‘Now they’re truly enticing people with more features.’
This is the latest feature released for Messenger, following the capability to send money to friends, the launch of Messenger Platform and the introduction of Businesses on Messenger, which Facebook says is coming soon.
Movie calling in Messenger is launching today for people on iOS and Android in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay.
Facebook faced a backlash last year for forcing users to download a separate Messenger app for mobile, and it looks like the web version is heading in the same direction.
Last month the social network launched Messenger.com – a standalone site that lets users talk to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app.
For the time being users can still send, receive and view messages on Facebook, and the site has not announced any current plans to eliminate this feature yet.
Facebook didn’t expose its future plans for the service, but told MailOnline: ‘We’re launching Messenger for web browsers – a standalone web talk product accessible via Messenger.com.
‘Once logged in, people can dive directly into a dedicated desktop messaging practice, keeping their conversations going and picking up where they left off.’
To use Messenger.com, users log in with Facebook credentials and the site will automatically import their contacts and current talks.
These conversations are shown total screen, as opposed to the pop-up on Facebook or the half screen view on the main Facebook Messages page.
None of the other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings can be managed by clicking the gear icon in the top left-hand corner.
WHATSAPP ADDS VOICE CALLS
WhatsApp very first hinted it would let users make free calls to each other early last year.
Now Android users can make voice calls and the feature will come to iOS soon.
The latest version of the popular messaging app also has a cleaner layout with three tabs for contacts, talks and calls.
Users simply have to click on the ‘Calls’ tab and choose a contact to phone a friend at no cost.
However this only works inbetween WhatsApp users and it relies on an internet connection.
This menu lets users manage sounds, see desktop notifications and block users.
Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology told MailOnline that by splitting Facebook services, it reduces the different ways in which the site has to treat messages in its standard app and site.
‘With a portfolio of apps, there’s more room to manoeuvre; you don’t have to use Facebook anymore,’ he added.
The standalone site is the latest addition to the much-maligned service.
At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced it was turning Messenger into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’.
During the event Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five instruments tailored to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ mobile applications.
Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies, and make calls more lightly.
‘They are attempting to make Messenger a full-featured and rich media platform,’ Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at the conference.
‘I think that they are interested in letting people know that Facebook is not a single app company, it is an app constellation.’
‘Voice calling has been ramping up, and by separating [Messenger], Facebook can make this feature available. It would be too cumbersome to add to the standard site,’ continued Mr Kent.
‘This also makes voicecalling lighter to deploy in other countries.’
Facebook-owned WhatsApp began rolling out its own internet calls to Android users this week, and the feature is coming to iOS ‘soon.’
One of the Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies, called Messenger Business.
‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said.
And early last month Facebook announced Messenger can be used for making payments to friends, and that it was testing a ‘buy’ button to permit users to make purchases directly from Facebook pages.
Elsewhere, the Messenger team is working with fucking partners including ESPN and the Bad Robot film production company possessed by Hollywood director J.J. Abrams to release applications that work on the Messenger platform.
Additionally, Facebook introduced a device designed to make it effortless to take public movie posted on the social network and embed it on other sites.
Facebook launched Messenger back in two thousand eleven but split the app from Facebook at the begin of last year and coerced people to download both apps if they wished to use the two services.
At the time, members said they were outraged by the switches and flocked to the respective app stores to complain.
They were also worried about the app’s permissions that gave Facebook access to send texts and make calls on the user’s device.
Facebook was then coerced to react with a blog post explaining why it needed certain permissions.
It said: ‘Almost all apps need certain permissions to run on Android, and we use these permissions to run features in the app.
‘Keep in mind that Android controls the way the permissions are named, and the way they’re named doesn’t necessarily reflect the way the Messenger app and other apps use them.’
Facebook takes on FaceTime with Messenger movie calls, Daily Mail Online
Facebook takes on FaceTime: Social network adds movie calls to Messenger in bid to topple rivals
Published: 22:36 BST, twenty seven April two thousand fifteen | Updated: 07:25 BST, twenty eight April two thousand fifteen
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype, Apple’s FaceTime and other messaging apps..
The feature is presently available to users on iOS and Android operating systems, the company said.
Users can movie call their friends even if one of them is on Apple’s iOS and the other on an Android device.
Scroll down for movie
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype and Apple’s FaceTime.
HOW IT WORKS
You can quickly commence a movie call from any conversation with just one tap.
If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the movie icon in the top right corner of the screen and embark a movie call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.
‘Today, we’re introducing movie calling in Messenger.
‘Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Messenger,’ wrote Stan Chudnovsky, Head of Product for Messenger and Param Reddy, Engineering Manager.
Messenger already offers people the capability to make voice calls to friends and loved ones around the world.
Movie calling will expand Messenger’s real-time communication features, enabling the more than six hundred million people who use Messenger every month.
Movie calling in Messenger is available for calls made from a mobile phone to another mobile phone, even if one person is on iOS and the other person is on an Android device.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference in March, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg said the social network would introduce myriad features within Messenger. For example, users can also send money to friends within the app. Facebook also unveiled a platform that enables developers to lightly create apps that function within Messenger.
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‘Adding (movie calling) to Messenger instead of the main Facebook app maybe ties in to Messenger’s mission where it’s a real core person-to-person app,’ said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner Inc, a U.S. technology research and advisory hard.
‘Now they’re truly enticing people with more features.’
This is the latest feature released for Messenger, following the capability to send money to friends, the launch of Messenger Platform and the introduction of Businesses on Messenger, which Facebook says is coming soon.
Movie calling in Messenger is launching today for people on iOS and Android in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay.
Facebook faced a backlash last year for forcing users to download a separate Messenger app for mobile, and it looks like the web version is heading in the same direction.
Last month the social network launched Messenger.com – a standalone site that lets users talk to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app.
For the time being users can still send, receive and view messages on Facebook, and the site has not announced any current plans to eliminate this feature yet.
Facebook has launched Messenger.com (pictured) – a standalone site that lets people talk to their Facebook contacts, commence group conversations and send photos in the same way they can on the app. Users can still send and receive messages on Facebook and it is not known yet whether this will be eliminated in due course.
Facebook didn’t expose its future plans for the service, but told MailOnline: ‘We’re launching Messenger for web browsers – a standalone web talk product accessible via Messenger.com.
‘Once logged in, people can dive directly into a dedicated desktop messaging practice, keeping their conversations going and picking up where they left off.’
To use Messenger.com, users log in with Facebook credentials and the site will automatically import their contacts and current talks.
These conversations are shown total screen, as opposed to the pop-up on Facebook or the half screen view on the main Facebook Messages page.
None of the other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings can be managed by clicking the gear icon in the top left-hand corner.
WHATSAPP ADDS VOICE CALLS
WhatsApp very first hinted it would let users make free calls to each other early last year.
Now Android users can make voice calls and the feature will come to iOS soon.
The latest version of the popular messaging app also has a cleaner layout with three tabs for contacts, talks and calls.
Users simply have to click on the ‘Calls’ tab and choose a contact to phone a friend at no cost.
However this only works inbetween WhatsApp users and it relies on an internet connection.
This menu lets users manage sounds, see desktop notifications and block users.
Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology told MailOnline that by splitting Facebook services, it reduces the different ways in which the site has to treat messages in its standard app and site.
‘With a portfolio of apps, there’s more room to manoeuvre; you don’t have to use Facebook anymore,’ he added.
The standalone site is the latest addition to the much-maligned service.
At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced it was turning Messenger into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’.
During the event Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five contraptions tailored to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ mobile applications.
Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies, and make calls more lightly.
‘They are attempting to make Messenger a full-featured and rich media platform,’ Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at the conference.
‘I think that they are interested in letting people know that Facebook is not a single app company, it is an app constellation.’
Users log in with their Facebook credentials and the site automatically imports their contacts and current talks. These conversations are shown utter screen. No other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings (pictured) can be managed using the gear icon in the top left-hand corner
Messenger.com is the latest addition to the much-maligned service. At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg (pictured) announced it was turning Messenger application into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’ in a bid to jiggle up online communication
‘Voice calling has been ramping up, and by separating [Messenger], Facebook can make this feature available. It would be too cumbersome to add to the standard site,’ continued Mr Kent.
‘This also makes voicecalling lighter to deploy in other countries.’
Facebook-owned WhatsApp began rolling out its own internet calls to Android users this week, and the feature is coming to iOS ‘soon.’
One of the Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies, called Messenger Business.
‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said.
During the event, Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five products and contraptions to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ applications. Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies and make calls (left). And Messenger can now be used for making payments to friends (right)
And early last month Facebook announced Messenger can be used for making payments to friends, and that it was testing a ‘buy’ button to permit users to make purchases directly from Facebook pages.
Elsewhere, the Messenger team is working with fucking partners including ESPN and the Bad Robot film production company possessed by Hollywood director J.J. Abrams to release applications that work on the Messenger platform.
Additionally, Facebook introduced a device designed to make it effortless to take public movie posted on the social network and embed it on other sites.
Facebook launched Messenger back in two thousand eleven but split the app from Facebook at the commence of last year and coerced people to download both apps if they wished to use the two services.
One of these Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies (example pictured), called Messenger Business. ‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said
At the time, members said they were outraged by the switches and flocked to the respective app stores to complain.
They were also worried about the app’s permissions that gave Facebook access to send texts and make calls on the user’s device.
Facebook was then coerced to react with a blog post explaining why it needed certain permissions.
It said: ‘Almost all apps need certain permissions to run on Android, and we use these permissions to run features in the app.
‘Keep in mind that Android controls the way the permissions are named, and the way they’re named doesn’t necessarily reflect the way the Messenger app and other apps use them.’
Facebook takes on FaceTime with Messenger movie calls, Daily Mail Online
Facebook takes on FaceTime: Social network adds movie calls to Messenger in bid to topple rivals
By Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com 22:36 BST twenty seven Apr 2015, updated 07:25 BST twenty eight Apr two thousand fifteen
- Users of the Messenger app can now movie calls other users
- Fresh feature available on Android and iOS apps
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype, Apple’s FaceTime and other messaging apps..
The feature is presently available to users on iOS and Android operating systems, the company said.
Users can movie call their friends even if one of them is on Apple’s iOS and the other on an Android device.
Scroll down for movie
HOW IT WORKS
You can quickly commence a movie call from any conversation with just one tap.
If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the movie icon in the top right corner of the screen and begin a movie call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.
‘Today, we’re introducing movie calling in Messenger.
‘Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Messenger,’ wrote Stan Chudnovsky, Head of Product for Messenger and Param Reddy, Engineering Manager.
Messenger already offers people the capability to make voice calls to friends and loved ones around the world.
Movie calling will expand Messenger’s real-time communication features, enabling the more than six hundred million people who use Messenger every month.
Movie calling in Messenger is available for calls made from a mobile phone to another mobile phone, even if one person is on iOS and the other person is on an Android device.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference in March, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg said the social network would introduce myriad features within Messenger. For example, users can also send money to friends within the app. Facebook also unveiled a platform that enables developers to lightly create apps that function within Messenger.
Related Articles
‘Adding (movie calling) to Messenger instead of the main Facebook app maybe ties in to Messenger’s mission where it’s a real core person-to-person app,’ said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner Inc, a U.S. technology research and advisory rock-hard.
‘Now they’re indeed enticing people with more features.’
This is the latest feature released for Messenger, following the capability to send money to friends, the launch of Messenger Platform and the introduction of Businesses on Messenger, which Facebook says is coming soon.
Movie calling in Messenger is launching today for people on iOS and Android in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay.
Facebook faced a backlash last year for forcing users to download a separate Messenger app for mobile, and it looks like the web version is heading in the same direction.
Last month the social network launched Messenger.com – a standalone site that lets users talk to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app.
For the time being users can still send, receive and view messages on Facebook, and the site has not announced any current plans to liquidate this feature yet.
Facebook didn’t expose its future plans for the service, but told MailOnline: ‘We’re launching Messenger for web browsers – a standalone web talk product accessible via Messenger.com.
‘Once logged in, people can dive directly into a dedicated desktop messaging practice, keeping their conversations going and picking up where they left off.’
To use Messenger.com, users log in with Facebook credentials and the site will automatically import their contacts and current talks.
These conversations are shown total screen, as opposed to the pop-up on Facebook or the half screen view on the main Facebook Messages page.
None of the other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings can be managed by clicking the gear icon in the top left-hand corner.
WHATSAPP ADDS VOICE CALLS
WhatsApp very first hinted it would let users make free calls to each other early last year.
Now Android users can make voice calls and the feature will come to iOS soon.
The latest version of the popular messaging app also has a cleaner layout with three tabs for contacts, talks and calls.
Users simply have to click on the ‘Calls’ tab and choose a contact to phone a friend at no cost.
However this only works inbetween WhatsApp users and it relies on an internet connection.
This menu lets users manage sounds, see desktop notifications and block users.
Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology told MailOnline that by splitting Facebook services, it reduces the different ways in which the site has to treat messages in its standard app and site.
‘With a portfolio of apps, there’s more room to manoeuvre; you don’t have to use Facebook anymore,’ he added.
The standalone site is the latest addition to the much-maligned service.
At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced it was turning Messenger into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’.
During the event Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five instruments tailored to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ mobile applications.
Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies, and make calls more lightly.
‘They are attempting to make Messenger a full-featured and rich media platform,’ Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at the conference.
‘I think that they are interested in letting people know that Facebook is not a single app company, it is an app constellation.’
‘Voice calling has been ramping up, and by separating [Messenger], Facebook can make this feature available. It would be too cumbersome to add to the standard site,’ continued Mr Kent.
‘This also makes voicecalling lighter to deploy in other countries.’
Facebook-owned WhatsApp commenced rolling out its own internet calls to Android users this week, and the feature is coming to iOS ‘soon.’
One of the Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies, called Messenger Business.
‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said.
And early last month Facebook announced Messenger can be used for making payments to friends, and that it was testing a ‘buy’ button to permit users to make purchases directly from Facebook pages.
Elsewhere, the Messenger team is working with playmates including ESPN and the Bad Robot film production company possessed by Hollywood director J.J. Abrams to release applications that work on the Messenger platform.
Additionally, Facebook introduced a implement designed to make it effortless to take public movie posted on the social network and embed it on other sites.
Facebook launched Messenger back in two thousand eleven but split the app from Facebook at the begin of last year and compelled people to download both apps if they wished to use the two services.
At the time, members said they were outraged by the switches and flocked to the respective app stores to complain.
They were also worried about the app’s permissions that gave Facebook access to send texts and make calls on the user’s device.
Facebook was then coerced to react with a blog post explaining why it needed certain permissions.
It said: ‘Almost all apps need certain permissions to run on Android, and we use these permissions to run features in the app.
‘Keep in mind that Android controls the way the permissions are named, and the way they’re named doesn’t necessarily reflect the way the Messenger app and other apps use them.’
Facebook takes on FaceTime with Messenger movie calls, Daily Mail Online
Facebook takes on FaceTime: Social network adds movie calls to Messenger in bid to topple rivals
By Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com 22:36 BST twenty seven Apr 2015, updated 07:25 BST twenty eight Apr two thousand fifteen
- Users of the Messenger app can now movie calls other users
- Fresh feature available on Android and iOS apps
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype, Apple’s FaceTime and other messaging apps..
The feature is presently available to users on iOS and Android operating systems, the company said.
Users can movie call their friends even if one of them is on Apple’s iOS and the other on an Android device.
Scroll down for movie
HOW IT WORKS
You can quickly commence a movie call from any conversation with just one tap.
If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the movie icon in the top right corner of the screen and commence a movie call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.
‘Today, we’re introducing movie calling in Messenger.
‘Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Messenger,’ wrote Stan Chudnovsky, Head of Product for Messenger and Param Reddy, Engineering Manager.
Messenger already offers people the capability to make voice calls to friends and loved ones around the world.
Movie calling will expand Messenger’s real-time communication features, enabling the more than six hundred million people who use Messenger every month.
Movie calling in Messenger is available for calls made from a mobile phone to another mobile phone, even if one person is on iOS and the other person is on an Android device.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference in March, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg said the social network would introduce myriad features within Messenger. For example, users can also send money to friends within the app. Facebook also unveiled a platform that enables developers to lightly create apps that function within Messenger.
Related Articles
‘Adding (movie calling) to Messenger instead of the main Facebook app maybe ties in to Messenger’s mission where it’s a real core person-to-person app,’ said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner Inc, a U.S. technology research and advisory stiff.
‘Now they’re indeed enticing people with more features.’
This is the latest feature released for Messenger, following the capability to send money to friends, the launch of Messenger Platform and the introduction of Businesses on Messenger, which Facebook says is coming soon.
Movie calling in Messenger is launching today for people on iOS and Android in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay.
Facebook faced a backlash last year for forcing users to download a separate Messenger app for mobile, and it looks like the web version is heading in the same direction.
Last month the social network launched Messenger.com – a standalone site that lets users talk to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app.
For the time being users can still send, receive and view messages on Facebook, and the site has not announced any current plans to eliminate this feature yet.
Facebook didn’t expose its future plans for the service, but told MailOnline: ‘We’re launching Messenger for web browsers – a standalone web talk product accessible via Messenger.com.
‘Once logged in, people can dive directly into a dedicated desktop messaging practice, keeping their conversations going and picking up where they left off.’
To use Messenger.com, users log in with Facebook credentials and the site will automatically import their contacts and current talks.
These conversations are shown utter screen, as opposed to the pop-up on Facebook or the half screen view on the main Facebook Messages page.
None of the other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings can be managed by clicking the gear icon in the top left-hand corner.
WHATSAPP ADDS VOICE CALLS
WhatsApp very first hinted it would let users make free calls to each other early last year.
Now Android users can make voice calls and the feature will come to iOS soon.
The latest version of the popular messaging app also has a cleaner layout with three tabs for contacts, talks and calls.
Users simply have to click on the ‘Calls’ tab and choose a contact to phone a friend at no cost.
However this only works inbetween WhatsApp users and it relies on an internet connection.
This menu lets users manage sounds, see desktop notifications and block users.
Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology told MailOnline that by splitting Facebook services, it reduces the different ways in which the site has to treat messages in its standard app and site.
‘With a portfolio of apps, there’s more room to manoeuvre; you don’t have to use Facebook anymore,’ he added.
The standalone site is the latest addition to the much-maligned service.
At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced it was turning Messenger into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’.
During the event Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five devices tailored to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ mobile applications.
Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies, and make calls more lightly.
‘They are attempting to make Messenger a full-featured and rich media platform,’ Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at the conference.
‘I think that they are interested in letting people know that Facebook is not a single app company, it is an app constellation.’
‘Voice calling has been ramping up, and by separating [Messenger], Facebook can make this feature available. It would be too cumbersome to add to the standard site,’ continued Mr Kent.
‘This also makes voicecalling lighter to deploy in other countries.’
Facebook-owned WhatsApp began rolling out its own internet calls to Android users this week, and the feature is coming to iOS ‘soon.’
One of the Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies, called Messenger Business.
‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said.
And early last month Facebook announced Messenger can be used for making payments to friends, and that it was testing a ‘buy’ button to permit users to make purchases directly from Facebook pages.
Elsewhere, the Messenger team is working with playmates including ESPN and the Bad Robot film production company possessed by Hollywood director J.J. Abrams to release applications that work on the Messenger platform.
Additionally, Facebook introduced a contraption designed to make it effortless to take public movie posted on the social network and embed it on other sites.
Facebook launched Messenger back in two thousand eleven but split the app from Facebook at the commence of last year and coerced people to download both apps if they wished to use the two services.
At the time, members said they were outraged by the switches and flocked to the respective app stores to complain.
They were also worried about the app’s permissions that gave Facebook access to send texts and make calls on the user’s device.
Facebook was then coerced to react with a blog post explaining why it needed certain permissions.
It said: ‘Almost all apps need certain permissions to run on Android, and we use these permissions to run features in the app.
‘Keep in mind that Android controls the way the permissions are named, and the way they’re named doesn’t necessarily reflect the way the Messenger app and other apps use them.’
Facebook takes on FaceTime with Messenger movie calls, Daily Mail Online
Facebook takes on FaceTime: Social network adds movie calls to Messenger in bid to topple rivals
By Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com 22:36 BST twenty seven Apr 2015, updated 07:25 BST twenty eight Apr two thousand fifteen
- Users of the Messenger app can now movie calls other users
- Fresh feature available on Android and iOS apps
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype, Apple’s FaceTime and other messaging apps..
The feature is presently available to users on iOS and Android operating systems, the company said.
Users can movie call their friends even if one of them is on Apple’s iOS and the other on an Android device.
Scroll down for movie
HOW IT WORKS
You can quickly commence a movie call from any conversation with just one tap.
If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the movie icon in the top right corner of the screen and commence a movie call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.
‘Today, we’re introducing movie calling in Messenger.
‘Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Messenger,’ wrote Stan Chudnovsky, Head of Product for Messenger and Param Reddy, Engineering Manager.
Messenger already offers people the capability to make voice calls to friends and loved ones around the world.
Movie calling will expand Messenger’s real-time communication features, enabling the more than six hundred million people who use Messenger every month.
Movie calling in Messenger is available for calls made from a mobile phone to another mobile phone, even if one person is on iOS and the other person is on an Android device.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference in March, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg said the social network would introduce myriad features within Messenger. For example, users can also send money to friends within the app. Facebook also unveiled a platform that enables developers to lightly create apps that function within Messenger.
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‘Adding (movie calling) to Messenger instead of the main Facebook app maybe ties in to Messenger’s mission where it’s a real core person-to-person app,’ said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner Inc, a U.S. technology research and advisory rock-hard.
‘Now they’re truly enticing people with more features.’
This is the latest feature released for Messenger, following the capability to send money to friends, the launch of Messenger Platform and the introduction of Businesses on Messenger, which Facebook says is coming soon.
Movie calling in Messenger is launching today for people on iOS and Android in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay.
Facebook faced a backlash last year for forcing users to download a separate Messenger app for mobile, and it looks like the web version is heading in the same direction.
Last month the social network launched Messenger.com – a standalone site that lets users talk to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app.
For the time being users can still send, receive and view messages on Facebook, and the site has not announced any current plans to liquidate this feature yet.
Facebook didn’t expose its future plans for the service, but told MailOnline: ‘We’re launching Messenger for web browsers – a standalone web talk product accessible via Messenger.com.
‘Once logged in, people can dive directly into a dedicated desktop messaging practice, keeping their conversations going and picking up where they left off.’
To use Messenger.com, users log in with Facebook credentials and the site will automatically import their contacts and current talks.
These conversations are shown utter screen, as opposed to the pop-up on Facebook or the half screen view on the main Facebook Messages page.
None of the other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings can be managed by clicking the gear icon in the top left-hand corner.
WHATSAPP ADDS VOICE CALLS
WhatsApp very first hinted it would let users make free calls to each other early last year.
Now Android users can make voice calls and the feature will come to iOS soon.
The latest version of the popular messaging app also has a cleaner layout with three tabs for contacts, talks and calls.
Users simply have to click on the ‘Calls’ tab and choose a contact to phone a friend at no cost.
However this only works inbetween WhatsApp users and it relies on an internet connection.
This menu lets users manage sounds, see desktop notifications and block users.
Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology told MailOnline that by splitting Facebook services, it reduces the different ways in which the site has to treat messages in its standard app and site.
‘With a portfolio of apps, there’s more room to manoeuvre; you don’t have to use Facebook anymore,’ he added.
The standalone site is the latest addition to the much-maligned service.
At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced it was turning Messenger into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’.
During the event Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five implements tailored to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ mobile applications.
Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies, and make calls more lightly.
‘They are attempting to make Messenger a full-featured and rich media platform,’ Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at the conference.
‘I think that they are interested in letting people know that Facebook is not a single app company, it is an app constellation.’
‘Voice calling has been ramping up, and by separating [Messenger], Facebook can make this feature available. It would be too cumbersome to add to the standard site,’ continued Mr Kent.
‘This also makes voicecalling lighter to deploy in other countries.’
Facebook-owned WhatsApp embarked rolling out its own internet calls to Android users this week, and the feature is coming to iOS ‘soon.’
One of the Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies, called Messenger Business.
‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said.
And early last month Facebook announced Messenger can be used for making payments to friends, and that it was testing a ‘buy’ button to permit users to make purchases directly from Facebook pages.
Elsewhere, the Messenger team is working with playmates including ESPN and the Bad Robot film production company possessed by Hollywood director J.J. Abrams to release applications that work on the Messenger platform.
Additionally, Facebook introduced a instrument designed to make it effortless to take public movie posted on the social network and embed it on other sites.
Facebook launched Messenger back in two thousand eleven but split the app from Facebook at the commence of last year and compelled people to download both apps if they wished to use the two services.
At the time, members said they were outraged by the switches and flocked to the respective app stores to complain.
They were also worried about the app’s permissions that gave Facebook access to send texts and make calls on the user’s device.
Facebook was then coerced to react with a blog post explaining why it needed certain permissions.
It said: ‘Almost all apps need certain permissions to run on Android, and we use these permissions to run features in the app.
‘Keep in mind that Android controls the way the permissions are named, and the way they’re named doesn’t necessarily reflect the way the Messenger app and other apps use them.’
Facebook takes on FaceTime with Messenger movie calls, Daily Mail Online
Facebook takes on FaceTime: Social network adds movie calls to Messenger in bid to topple rivals
Published: 22:36 BST, twenty seven April two thousand fifteen | Updated: 07:25 BST, twenty eight April two thousand fifteen
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype, Apple’s FaceTime and other messaging apps..
The feature is presently available to users on iOS and Android operating systems, the company said.
Users can movie call their friends even if one of them is on Apple’s iOS and the other on an Android device.
Scroll down for movie
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype and Apple’s FaceTime.
HOW IT WORKS
You can quickly begin a movie call from any conversation with just one tap.
If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the movie icon in the top right corner of the screen and embark a movie call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.
‘Today, we’re introducing movie calling in Messenger.
‘Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Messenger,’ wrote Stan Chudnovsky, Head of Product for Messenger and Param Reddy, Engineering Manager.
Messenger already offers people the capability to make voice calls to friends and loved ones around the world.
Movie calling will expand Messenger’s real-time communication features, enabling the more than six hundred million people who use Messenger every month.
Movie calling in Messenger is available for calls made from a mobile phone to another mobile phone, even if one person is on iOS and the other person is on an Android device.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference in March, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg said the social network would introduce myriad features within Messenger. For example, users can also send money to friends within the app. Facebook also unveiled a platform that enables developers to lightly create apps that function within Messenger.
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‘Adding (movie calling) to Messenger instead of the main Facebook app maybe ties in to Messenger’s mission where it’s a real core person-to-person app,’ said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner Inc, a U.S. technology research and advisory rigid.
‘Now they’re indeed enticing people with more features.’
This is the latest feature released for Messenger, following the capability to send money to friends, the launch of Messenger Platform and the introduction of Businesses on Messenger, which Facebook says is coming soon.
Movie calling in Messenger is launching today for people on iOS and Android in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay.
Facebook faced a backlash last year for forcing users to download a separate Messenger app for mobile, and it looks like the web version is heading in the same direction.
Last month the social network launched Messenger.com – a standalone site that lets users talk to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app.
For the time being users can still send, receive and view messages on Facebook, and the site has not announced any current plans to eliminate this feature yet.
Facebook has launched Messenger.com (pictured) – a standalone site that lets people talk to their Facebook contacts, begin group conversations and send photos in the same way they can on the app. Users can still send and receive messages on Facebook and it is not known yet whether this will be liquidated in due course.
Facebook didn’t expose its future plans for the service, but told MailOnline: ‘We’re launching Messenger for web browsers – a standalone web talk product accessible via Messenger.com.
‘Once logged in, people can dive directly into a dedicated desktop messaging practice, keeping their conversations going and picking up where they left off.’
To use Messenger.com, users log in with Facebook credentials and the site will automatically import their contacts and current talks.
These conversations are shown total screen, as opposed to the pop-up on Facebook or the half screen view on the main Facebook Messages page.
None of the other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings can be managed by clicking the gear icon in the top left-hand corner.
WHATSAPP ADDS VOICE CALLS
WhatsApp very first hinted it would let users make free calls to each other early last year.
Now Android users can make voice calls and the feature will come to iOS soon.
The latest version of the popular messaging app also has a cleaner layout with three tabs for contacts, talks and calls.
Users simply have to click on the ‘Calls’ tab and choose a contact to phone a friend at no cost.
However this only works inbetween WhatsApp users and it relies on an internet connection.
This menu lets users manage sounds, see desktop notifications and block users.
Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology told MailOnline that by splitting Facebook services, it reduces the different ways in which the site has to treat messages in its standard app and site.
‘With a portfolio of apps, there’s more room to manoeuvre; you don’t have to use Facebook anymore,’ he added.
The standalone site is the latest addition to the much-maligned service.
At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced it was turning Messenger into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’.
During the event Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five devices tailored to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ mobile applications.
Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies, and make calls more lightly.
‘They are attempting to make Messenger a full-featured and rich media platform,’ Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at the conference.
‘I think that they are interested in letting people know that Facebook is not a single app company, it is an app constellation.’
Users log in with their Facebook credentials and the site automatically imports their contacts and current talks. These conversations are shown total screen. No other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings (pictured) can be managed using the gear icon in the top left-hand corner
Messenger.com is the latest addition to the much-maligned service. At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg (pictured) announced it was turning Messenger application into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’ in a bid to wiggle up online communication
‘Voice calling has been ramping up, and by separating [Messenger], Facebook can make this feature available. It would be too cumbersome to add to the standard site,’ continued Mr Kent.
‘This also makes voicecalling lighter to deploy in other countries.’
Facebook-owned WhatsApp commenced rolling out its own internet calls to Android users this week, and the feature is coming to iOS ‘soon.’
One of the Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies, called Messenger Business.
‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said.
During the event, Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five products and instruments to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ applications. Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies and make calls (left). And Messenger can now be used for making payments to friends (right)
And early last month Facebook announced Messenger can be used for making payments to friends, and that it was testing a ‘buy’ button to permit users to make purchases directly from Facebook pages.
Elsewhere, the Messenger team is working with playmates including ESPN and the Bad Robot film production company possessed by Hollywood director J.J. Abrams to release applications that work on the Messenger platform.
Additionally, Facebook introduced a instrument designed to make it effortless to take public movie posted on the social network and embed it on other sites.
Facebook launched Messenger back in two thousand eleven but split the app from Facebook at the embark of last year and coerced people to download both apps if they dreamed to use the two services.
One of these Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies (example pictured), called Messenger Business. ‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said
At the time, members said they were outraged by the switches and flocked to the respective app stores to complain.
They were also worried about the app’s permissions that gave Facebook access to send texts and make calls on the user’s device.
Facebook was then coerced to react with a blog post explaining why it needed certain permissions.
It said: ‘Almost all apps need certain permissions to run on Android, and we use these permissions to run features in the app.
‘Keep in mind that Android controls the way the permissions are named, and the way they’re named doesn’t necessarily reflect the way the Messenger app and other apps use them.’
Facebook takes on FaceTime with Messenger movie calls, Daily Mail Online
Facebook takes on FaceTime: Social network adds movie calls to Messenger in bid to topple rivals
By Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com 22:36 BST twenty seven Apr 2015, updated 07:25 BST twenty eight Apr two thousand fifteen
- Users of the Messenger app can now movie calls other users
- Fresh feature available on Android and iOS apps
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype, Apple’s FaceTime and other messaging apps..
The feature is presently available to users on iOS and Android operating systems, the company said.
Users can movie call their friends even if one of them is on Apple’s iOS and the other on an Android device.
Scroll down for movie
HOW IT WORKS
You can quickly commence a movie call from any conversation with just one tap.
If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the movie icon in the top right corner of the screen and embark a movie call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.
‘Today, we’re introducing movie calling in Messenger.
‘Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Messenger,’ wrote Stan Chudnovsky, Head of Product for Messenger and Param Reddy, Engineering Manager.
Messenger already offers people the capability to make voice calls to friends and loved ones around the world.
Movie calling will expand Messenger’s real-time communication features, enabling the more than six hundred million people who use Messenger every month.
Movie calling in Messenger is available for calls made from a mobile phone to another mobile phone, even if one person is on iOS and the other person is on an Android device.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference in March, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg said the social network would introduce myriad features within Messenger. For example, users can also send money to friends within the app. Facebook also unveiled a platform that enables developers to lightly create apps that function within Messenger.
Related Articles
‘Adding (movie calling) to Messenger instead of the main Facebook app maybe ties in to Messenger’s mission where it’s a real core person-to-person app,’ said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner Inc, a U.S. technology research and advisory rigid.
‘Now they’re truly enticing people with more features.’
This is the latest feature released for Messenger, following the capability to send money to friends, the launch of Messenger Platform and the introduction of Businesses on Messenger, which Facebook says is coming soon.
Movie calling in Messenger is launching today for people on iOS and Android in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay.
Facebook faced a backlash last year for forcing users to download a separate Messenger app for mobile, and it looks like the web version is heading in the same direction.
Last month the social network launched Messenger.com – a standalone site that lets users talk to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app.
For the time being users can still send, receive and view messages on Facebook, and the site has not announced any current plans to eliminate this feature yet.
Facebook didn’t expose its future plans for the service, but told MailOnline: ‘We’re launching Messenger for web browsers – a standalone web talk product accessible via Messenger.com.
‘Once logged in, people can dive directly into a dedicated desktop messaging practice, keeping their conversations going and picking up where they left off.’
To use Messenger.com, users log in with Facebook credentials and the site will automatically import their contacts and current talks.
These conversations are shown total screen, as opposed to the pop-up on Facebook or the half screen view on the main Facebook Messages page.
None of the other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings can be managed by clicking the gear icon in the top left-hand corner.
WHATSAPP ADDS VOICE CALLS
WhatsApp very first hinted it would let users make free calls to each other early last year.
Now Android users can make voice calls and the feature will come to iOS soon.
The latest version of the popular messaging app also has a cleaner layout with three tabs for contacts, talks and calls.
Users simply have to click on the ‘Calls’ tab and choose a contact to phone a friend at no cost.
However this only works inbetween WhatsApp users and it relies on an internet connection.
This menu lets users manage sounds, see desktop notifications and block users.
Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology told MailOnline that by splitting Facebook services, it reduces the different ways in which the site has to treat messages in its standard app and site.
‘With a portfolio of apps, there’s more room to manoeuvre; you don’t have to use Facebook anymore,’ he added.
The standalone site is the latest addition to the much-maligned service.
At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced it was turning Messenger into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’.
During the event Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five implements tailored to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ mobile applications.
Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies, and make calls more lightly.
‘They are attempting to make Messenger a full-featured and rich media platform,’ Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at the conference.
‘I think that they are interested in letting people know that Facebook is not a single app company, it is an app constellation.’
‘Voice calling has been ramping up, and by separating [Messenger], Facebook can make this feature available. It would be too cumbersome to add to the standard site,’ continued Mr Kent.
‘This also makes voicecalling lighter to deploy in other countries.’
Facebook-owned WhatsApp embarked rolling out its own internet calls to Android users this week, and the feature is coming to iOS ‘soon.’
One of the Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies, called Messenger Business.
‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said.
And early last month Facebook announced Messenger can be used for making payments to friends, and that it was testing a ‘buy’ button to permit users to make purchases directly from Facebook pages.
Elsewhere, the Messenger team is working with fucking partners including ESPN and the Bad Robot film production company possessed by Hollywood director J.J. Abrams to release applications that work on the Messenger platform.
Additionally, Facebook introduced a contraption designed to make it effortless to take public movie posted on the social network and embed it on other sites.
Facebook launched Messenger back in two thousand eleven but split the app from Facebook at the begin of last year and coerced people to download both apps if they desired to use the two services.
At the time, members said they were outraged by the switches and flocked to the respective app stores to complain.
They were also worried about the app’s permissions that gave Facebook access to send texts and make calls on the user’s device.
Facebook was then compelled to react with a blog post explaining why it needed certain permissions.
It said: ‘Almost all apps need certain permissions to run on Android, and we use these permissions to run features in the app.
‘Keep in mind that Android controls the way the permissions are named, and the way they’re named doesn’t necessarily reflect the way the Messenger app and other apps use them.’
Facebook takes on FaceTime with Messenger movie calls, Daily Mail Online
Facebook takes on FaceTime: Social network adds movie calls to Messenger in bid to topple rivals
By Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com 22:36 BST twenty seven Apr 2015, updated 07:25 BST twenty eight Apr two thousand fifteen
- Users of the Messenger app can now movie calls other users
- Fresh feature available on Android and iOS apps
Facebook has added a video-calling feature to its standalone Messenger app in a bid to take on Skype, Apple’s FaceTime and other messaging apps..
The feature is presently available to users on iOS and Android operating systems, the company said.
Users can movie call their friends even if one of them is on Apple’s iOS and the other on an Android device.
Scroll down for movie
HOW IT WORKS
You can quickly begin a movie call from any conversation with just one tap.
If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the movie icon in the top right corner of the screen and begin a movie call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.
‘Today, we’re introducing movie calling in Messenger.
‘Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Messenger,’ wrote Stan Chudnovsky, Head of Product for Messenger and Param Reddy, Engineering Manager.
Messenger already offers people the capability to make voice calls to friends and loved ones around the world.
Movie calling will expand Messenger’s real-time communication features, enabling the more than six hundred million people who use Messenger every month.
Movie calling in Messenger is available for calls made from a mobile phone to another mobile phone, even if one person is on iOS and the other person is on an Android device.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference in March, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg said the social network would introduce myriad features within Messenger. For example, users can also send money to friends within the app. Facebook also unveiled a platform that enables developers to lightly create apps that function within Messenger.
Related Articles
‘Adding (movie calling) to Messenger instead of the main Facebook app maybe ties in to Messenger’s mission where it’s a real core person-to-person app,’ said Brian Blau, research director at Gartner Inc, a U.S. technology research and advisory hard.
‘Now they’re truly enticing people with more features.’
This is the latest feature released for Messenger, following the capability to send money to friends, the launch of Messenger Platform and the introduction of Businesses on Messenger, which Facebook says is coming soon.
Movie calling in Messenger is launching today for people on iOS and Android in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay.
Facebook faced a backlash last year for forcing users to download a separate Messenger app for mobile, and it looks like the web version is heading in the same direction.
Last month the social network launched Messenger.com – a standalone site that lets users talk to Facebook friends privately on a browser in the same way they can on the Messenger app.
For the time being users can still send, receive and view messages on Facebook, and the site has not announced any current plans to liquidate this feature yet.
Facebook didn’t expose its future plans for the service, but told MailOnline: ‘We’re launching Messenger for web browsers – a standalone web talk product accessible via Messenger.com.
‘Once logged in, people can dive directly into a dedicated desktop messaging practice, keeping their conversations going and picking up where they left off.’
To use Messenger.com, users log in with Facebook credentials and the site will automatically import their contacts and current talks.
These conversations are shown utter screen, as opposed to the pop-up on Facebook or the half screen view on the main Facebook Messages page.
None of the other Facebook buttons, including links to the News Feed, are visible, but settings can be managed by clicking the gear icon in the top left-hand corner.
WHATSAPP ADDS VOICE CALLS
WhatsApp very first hinted it would let users make free calls to each other early last year.
Now Android users can make voice calls and the feature will come to iOS soon.
The latest version of the popular messaging app also has a cleaner layout with three tabs for contacts, talks and calls.
Users simply have to click on the ‘Calls’ tab and choose a contact to phone a friend at no cost.
However this only works inbetween WhatsApp users and it relies on an internet connection.
This menu lets users manage sounds, see desktop notifications and block users.
Jack Kent, principal mobile analyst at IHS Technology told MailOnline that by splitting Facebook services, it reduces the different ways in which the site has to treat messages in its standard app and site.
‘With a portfolio of apps, there’s more room to manoeuvre; you don’t have to use Facebook anymore,’ he added.
The standalone site is the latest addition to the much-maligned service.
At its F8 conference in San Francisco last month, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced it was turning Messenger into a platform for ‘e-commerce, movie and more’.
During the event Facebook executives introduced more than twenty five implements tailored to help developers ‘build, grow, and monetise’ mobile applications.
Messenger was also upgraded to let users share photos, audio and movies, and make calls more lightly.
‘They are attempting to make Messenger a full-featured and rich media platform,’ Gartner analyst Brian Blau said at the conference.
‘I think that they are interested in letting people know that Facebook is not a single app company, it is an app constellation.’
‘Voice calling has been ramping up, and by separating [Messenger], Facebook can make this feature available. It would be too cumbersome to add to the standard site,’ continued Mr Kent.
‘This also makes voicecalling lighter to deploy in other countries.’
Facebook-owned WhatsApp commenced rolling out its own internet calls to Android users this week, and the feature is coming to iOS ‘soon.’
One of the Messenger upgrades was designed to connect customers with companies, called Messenger Business.
‘We’re making Messenger a place where you can lightly communicate with the businesses you care about in addition to the people you care about,’ Mr Zuckerberg said.
And early last month Facebook announced Messenger can be used for making payments to friends, and that it was testing a ‘buy’ button to permit users to make purchases directly from Facebook pages.
Elsewhere, the Messenger team is working with fucking partners including ESPN and the Bad Robot film production company possessed by Hollywood director J.J. Abrams to release applications that work on the Messenger platform.
Additionally, Facebook introduced a device designed to make it effortless to take public movie posted on the social network and embed it on other sites.
Facebook launched Messenger back in two thousand eleven but split the app from Facebook at the commence of last year and coerced people to download both apps if they dreamed to use the two services.
At the time, members said they were outraged by the switches and flocked to the respective app stores to complain.
They were also worried about the app’s permissions that gave Facebook access to send texts and make calls on the user’s device.
Facebook was then coerced to react with a blog post explaining why it needed certain permissions.
It said: ‘Almost all apps need certain permissions to run on Android, and we use these permissions to run features in the app.
‘Keep in mind that Android controls the way the permissions are named, and the way they’re named doesn’t necessarily reflect the way the Messenger app and other apps use them.’