Catch the latest from technology as one of the biggest social networking site, Facebook released on Tuesday afternoon another application on the iOS App Store called Facebook Messenger.
The application acts as a standalone group chat client for mobile operating systems. It is free, and you can do great things right within the application. Users can get map locations as well as they are able to send messages and photos to friends or group of friends or whoever they wish from their mobile contacts.
This new application and service that Facebook offers could also be a sort of challenge for Smartphone owners. Being considered as one of the biggest social network on the Web, Facebook is now ready to extend its competition with its new instant messaging application. As quoted from CNN news “why text when there’s Facebook Messenger?” this could be a question that Smartphone owners may have to ask themselves.
This new application comes from the product of Beluga. The product probably got the interest of Facebook developers because Facebook acquired it on March, not even six months upon its release to Apple’s App Store.
Lucy Zhang, ex-Google employee announced the Facebook Messenger via blog post. She said that the Messenger is a separate app; just a click and you can either send or got your message. Your friends can get it via texts and notifications.
While Facebook product director, Andrew Boswort is the one who talk about the potentials the new design has to have in an interview done on March. Just like it was expected to turns out, this new app is exciting, hot and interesting even though cell operators that profit from SMS fees stand in the way.