Facebook Messenger : Make FREE VoIP calls with your Facebook friends

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If you are an iPhone, iPad or and iPod user who frequents Facebook often, you got a new must have App. Facebook Messenger, iDevice application for iOS, by a team called Crisp App developers, could change the whole Facebook Chat experience for iOS users.

There are quite a few apps that allows you to chat with your Facebook buddies, but the Facebook Messenger cuts it's own unique place in the app space. The app provide a clean native iOS interface for chat, conversation views and photo attachments, but unlike other apps, it also lets you receive and place free VoIP calls through Facebook! Facebook Messenger utilizing the Facebook contact list, provide you with voice calls your friends, for free, over the Internet. Neet, the Facebook experince is almost complete, where is that Facephone, Facebook phone.
App Store lists following features;

Main features:

* Chat with Facebook friends from your iPhone/iPod Touch
* Easy-to-use interface
* Get replies instantly with Apple Push Notifications
* Make free VoIP calls to Facebook friends on desktop or iPhone/iPod Touch
* Easily send photos from your album or camera
* Keep track of all your chats and calls with message history
* View your friend's Wall in the embedded browser without leaving the app

Other cool features:

* Sound Notifications can be turned on or off
* Emoticons
* Full Multi-tasking support

Apple App Store

Facebook Phone, INQ Facebook Phone Is Real.

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Remember the INQ mobile Ltd. phone with a facebook logo (above from our post, Facebook Phone, Facephone Coming Soon? last September) it looks like is coming back. According to an article on Bloomberg, facebook has said, while declining to give specifics on the phones, the company continues to work with INQ Mobile. INQ  previously sold phones with Facebook features, along with other companies. London-based INQ has also declined to comment. INQ is based in London and is backed by Hong Kong telecommunications carrier Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. which is chaired by Li Ka-Shing, the billionaire who  also has invested in Facebook.
“We’ve been working with INQ for a couple of years now to help them build a deeply integrated Facebook experience on their devices, While we can’t speak for their future product development plans, we can say that our view is that almost all experiences would be better if they were social.” Palo Alto, California-based Facebook said in an e- mailed statement to Bloomberg.
Facebook Inc. is working with INQ Mobile Ltd. on two smartphones that may be carried by AT&T Inc., according to three people familiar with the matter but the products will launch in Europe in the first half of 2011. The US launch is scheduled for the second half. The same people whom Bloomberg got information has sait, AT&T is yet to come to an agreement to carry Phones.
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FacePhone, The Facebook Phone, May Be, No, Yes And It Goes On

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Since TechCrunch broke the news on the Facebook Phone, news has been running amok regarding the Facephone.  First was facebook announcement, "No facebook phone". Then facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was interviewed by TechCrunch which brought out;

Jason Kincaid: So, it sounds like a customized version of Android seems like the best thing, the deepest integration you could do without building your own operating system.
Mark Zuckerberg: Yeah, and I mean…
Michael Arrington: Is that putting words in your mouth?
Mark Zuckerberg: No, I mean, we’ve looked a bunch of different technical things.

But things are getting warmer now with Bloomberg reporting the same INQ phone that was mentioned, will be the FacePhone and will hit the Europe first before coming to US, through perhaps, AT&T. INQ is said to be running Android based OS but TC says the Android OS might be modified for "deeper Facebook integration".
I think, at the end parents will have a way to escape from buying those teenagers, expensive iPhones. INQ those deals Facebook.
Techcrunch

Facebook Is Going Deep, In To Mobile Devices, But No Facephone.

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As we mentioned earlier about facephone post, facebook is denying of the facebook phone but admits deep integration with mobile devices from third parties. Facebook spokesperson Jaime Schopflin spoke to Mashable

"The story, which originated in Techcrunch, is not accurate. Facebook (Facebook) is not building a phone. Our approach has always been to make phones and apps more social. Current projects include include everything from an HTML5 version of the site to apps on major platforms to full Connect support with SDKs to deeper integrations with some manufacturers. Our view is that almost all experiences would be better if they were social, so integrating deeply into existing platforms and operating systems is a good way to enable this. For an example, check out Connect for iPhone and the integration we have with contact syncing through our iPhone app. Another example is the INQ1 phone with Facebook integration (the first so-called ‘Facebook Phone'). The people mentioned in the story are working on these projects. The bottom line is that whenever we work on a deep integration, people want to call it a "Facebook Phone" because that's such an attractive soundbite, but building phones is just not what we do."

I think they will go deeper, and soon you will be dangling your face in your palm, we meant facebook profile.
Mashable

Facebook Phone, Facephone Coming Soon?

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Update: Facebook says no! No Facephone it seems. But We will believe you when you don'd says TC. A new link about facebook PR utterances refering to some iNQ phone added at the bottom. 

Yes if Techcrunch is right it seems. Facebook alarmed by the iPhone and Google's own Android, Nexus One, has quietly been building a phone of it's own, Facephone! Facepalm on you Google, and you too Apple.
The facebook phone said to be worked on by two high level Facebook employees – Joe Hewitt and Matthew Papakipos. Yes that is iPhone facebook app Joe Hewitt. Papakipos has sailed from Google Chrome to facebook.
TC thinks it will be a low cost phone around $50 with all the facebook features users want built in and from what I read it is going to be just a phone with facebook, one that you can call your friends just shouting the name of your friend at the phone.
I think it will take much more than that to make me use facebook phone, my old iPhone 3G and my T-Mobile G1, can do all those and more. Once I get my replacement for Apple 3G, soon, it is going to be hard to move me, to a cheap phone. Then again, most of the facebook users are teenagers with smaller pockets. Yes, it might fly! like the Google's Nexus One, in to the oblivion.
Techcrunch
No facebook phone, TC