Facebook Phone: its free call Apps

Apparently, we all need to listen to CEO Mark Zuckerberg a little bit more. Zuckerberg has time and time again denied getting into the phone business, noting that it doesn't make sense. Zuckerberg is right.

Facebook has plenty of good reasons to steer clear of involvement in the mobile phone game, whether it's from the operating system side or with actual products. After testing a feature called Voice Messenger free for use in Canada recently, Facebook has quietly made ​​the feature available in the U.S. and also iPhone users, at least. Now, according to The Verge, iPhone users can make free calls over a WiFi connection without data carrier costs, or use your data plan.



Before the free voice calls, there was voice messaging in the Facebook mobile app, and before that Poke, which sends time-limited text, photo, and video messages that auto-destruct and warn users if the recipient attempts to save them.

Of course, free phone calls programs are nothing new. Google Voice, Gmail and Skype have been offering free-call app for some time. But Facebook is different: Slice of smartphone owners who are also in the social network of a billion-plus people is significant and growing bigger every day. Although Skype and Google offer applications perfectly well in its own right, no one has been anointed "The Next Big Thing in free calls" yet. Still anyone's game.

For consumers that's great news. It means there's little reason to pay for minutes ever again. Facebook's Messenger app is currently available for free in the Apple App Store.

Facebook might not build its own phone, but the ‘Facebook Phone’ certainly appears to be alive and well. It’s just software, not a piece of hardware.