Facebook offers the ability to make phone calls over the Internet to all iPhone and smartphone owners with functional Android. All it takes is the users have the application activated Facebook Messenger and have access to the internet via Wi-Fi or 3G so they can communicate with their contacts.
Naturally, Wi-Fi calls are completely free, while in case you use mobile internet, then you will inevitably consume MB from your connection.
Although the function had appeared for a limited number of users for a few weeks, it is now available to all members of the social network, through the upgrade of the application for iPhone and Android smartphones. A corresponding upgrade is expected for Windows Phone phones soon.
His move Facebook comes to refute the estimates that, after the acquisition of WhatsApp application, the social network would stop evolving Facebook Messenger. However, WhatsApp will soon enable phone calls to its users, as revealed by the company's CEO and co-founder Jan Koum.
Μιλώντας στο Mobile World Congress στη Βαρκελώνη στα μέσα Φεβρουαρίου, ο Koum είχε δηλώσει πως η υποστήριξη φωνητικών κλήσεων θα ξεκινήσει μέσα στο δεύτερο τρίμηνο του 2014, αρχικά για τους χρήστες iPhone και mobile Android, και σε επόμενη φάση για τους κατόχους Blackberry και Windows Phone.
