Facebook Introduces Video Calling Feature in Facebook Messenger

Facebook announced on Monday a new iOS and Android update for Messenger that brings the ability to video calling other users. Now you can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Facebook Messenger. Similar services are offered by Microsoft’s Skype, Google Hangouts and Apple’s FaceTime. - See more at: http://www.alltechbuzz.net/facebook-video-calling-for-messenger 

                

Video calls only work from a phone to another phone, but they do work even if the person you’re calling is on a different platform – so iOS to Android or Android to iOS, no problem. Video calling will expand Messenger’s real-time communication features, enabling the more than 600 million people who use Messenger every month to reach others wherever they are, from anywhere. - See more at: http://www.alwayspro.in/facebook-video-calling-for-messenger

Facebook Messenger Gets Video Calling: 

Conversations can be started by clicking the video icon in the top-right hand corner of the screen. They must be started from an existing Messenger conversation. -   

                          

Facebook first introduced desktop video calling in partnership with Skype in 2011, but eventually built its own video call infrastructure. Bringing it to mobile could Messenger a serious competitor to iOS-only FaceTime, clunky Skype, and less-ubiquitous Google Hangouts.

Facebook’s goal is to connect people face to face no matter where they are or what mobile connection they have. With Messenger, someone on a new iPhone with strong LTE in San Francisco could video chat with someone on a low-end Android with a few bars of 3G in Nigeria.