Facebook has unveiled a new voice-calling Hello app for Android phones. The app has been named as “Hello” and it is the seventh child of Facebook Creative Labs. Other releases include a news-reading app Paper or the video sharing app Riff. etc and these apps have met with limited success.
The main aim of the Hello app is to provide people more information about the caller. Because the app is connected to Facebook. It facilitates the Hello users to see information about the callers’ identity even if they don’t have them in their contact list. Hello is presently available in the United States, Brazil and Nigeria. Simpy Hello is meant to replace the voice dialer on phone.
By using Hello it is also possible to search for people and businesses on Facebook and call them with just one tap. Hello has options to automatically blocks the calls from commonly blocked numbers. They just go to voice mail and can be reviewed in recent calls.
Tidbits
- Facebook, an online social networking service, was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
- Facebook is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
- Facebook is the leading social networking site based on monthly unique visitors. It has more than 1.3 billion active users all over the world.
- As of February 2015 Facebook reached a market capitalization of $212 Billion.
