Facebook Messenger is a free mobile application that allows you to chat with your contacts using text messages, pictures, emoticons, and voice recordings. Today he has a new feature that will greatly delight users: video calls.
Facebook has added a Video button that you can use during a conversation to start a video call in Messenger.
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It does not matter if you use an Android or iOS device. Indeed, regardless of the platform used by the person with whom you are conversing, everything should be extremely transparent - as long as you do not use a BlackBerry, Windows Phone, or a different operating system than mentioned above.
For its launch, the video call functionality within Facebook Messenger is available only for devices running iOS and Android , and it only works in a small group of countries: Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom, United States and Uruguay. Other countries should be added to the list in the near future.
Obviously, Facebook Messenger is not the only player in this sector. Skype, Google Hangouts, and a handful of other applications also support video calls in multi-platform mode. But Facebook is a real step forward, and probably a bigger player in the fact that the social network already has over a billion registered users.
For mobile, but not that ...
Available for mobile users, using either a Wi-Fi network or LTE data connection , this new feature can already be used. Interestingly, the new video call feature is not limited to mobile devices. The web version of Messenger also supports the latter, assuming a webcam and microphone are connected to the computer. When the call is initiated, a pop-up window appears in the main browser to start the call.
This new feature may be related to the recent acquisition of QuickFire Networks, a company that has invested resources in the development of video compression tools. This video compression technology is also likely to be used for playing videos presented to users on the news feed, especially when you are on a mobile device.
Facebook has added a Video button that you can use during a conversation to start a video call in Messenger.
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It does not matter if you use an Android or iOS device. Indeed, regardless of the platform used by the person with whom you are conversing, everything should be extremely transparent - as long as you do not use a BlackBerry, Windows Phone, or a different operating system than mentioned above.
Obviously, Facebook Messenger is not the only player in this sector. Skype, Google Hangouts, and a handful of other applications also support video calls in multi-platform mode. But Facebook is a real step forward, and probably a bigger player in the fact that the social network already has over a billion registered users.
For mobile, but not that ...
Available for mobile users, using either a Wi-Fi network or LTE data connection , this new feature can already be used. Interestingly, the new video call feature is not limited to mobile devices. The web version of Messenger also supports the latter, assuming a webcam and microphone are connected to the computer. When the call is initiated, a pop-up window appears in the main browser to start the call.
This new feature may be related to the recent acquisition of QuickFire Networks, a company that has invested resources in the development of video compression tools. This video compression technology is also likely to be used for playing videos presented to users on the news feed, especially when you are on a mobile device.