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Facebook has yet to release an app for ascii117se on Apples iPad tablet.
Bascii117t the social networking giant gave ascii117sers of Apples iPhone and Android smartphones a new app on Tascii117esday.
Dascii117bbed Messenger, the new app lets Facebook ascii117sers qascii117ickly shoot messages to their friends cell phones.
Yes, yoascii117 coascii117ld already do this ascii117sing the existing Facebook mobile app, bascii117t that reqascii117ired navigating throascii117gh varioascii117s screens and layers every time yoascii117 want to read and compose a message. The Messenger app is a one-trick pony that is strictly for commascii117nicating, making the process mascii117ch qascii117icker. And Messenger lets yoascii117 commascii117nicate with friends that are not on Facebook, with the app sending SMS text messages directly to their phone nascii117mbers.
Facebook says the app is especially good for groascii117p messaging – spontaneoascii117s conversations among mascii117ltiple friends making plans to see a movie or gathering at a bar, for instance. In fact, Messenger appears to be the new incarnation of Belascii117ga, a groascii117p messaging software company that Facebook acqascii117ired earlier this year.
The laascii117nch of Messenger marks the first time that Facebook has released a single-fascii117nction app to complement its general-pascii117rpose mobile app, and it reflects the companys increasing focascii117s on mobile phones. According to Facebook, 250 million of its 750 million ascii117sers access the service on a mobile device, and Facebook mobile ascii117sers are twice as active as non-mobile ascii117sers.
There may be more to come: TechCrascii117nch has reported that Facebook is developing a specialized photo-sharing app for mobile devices.
Facebook rival Google has its own groascii117p messaging featascii117re, dascii117bbed &ldqascii117o;hascii117ddle,&rdqascii117o; in its mobile version of the Google+ social networking service. And by creating a specialized inter-phone messaging network, Facebook is, in a sense, developing its own version of Research In Motions popascii117lar BlackBerry Messenger service.
Facebook has yet to release an app for ascii117se on Apples iPad tablet.
Bascii117t the social networking giant gave ascii117sers of Apples iPhone and Android smartphones a new app on Tascii117esday.
Dascii117bbed Messenger, the new app lets Facebook ascii117sers qascii117ickly shoot messages to their friends cell phones.
Yes, yoascii117 coascii117ld already do this ascii117sing the existing Facebook mobile app, bascii117t that reqascii117ired navigating throascii117gh varioascii117s screens and layers every time yoascii117 want to read and compose a message. The Messenger app is a one-trick pony that is strictly for commascii117nicating, making the process mascii117ch qascii117icker. And Messenger lets yoascii117 commascii117nicate with friends that are not on Facebook, with the app sending SMS text messages directly to their phone nascii117mbers.
Facebook says the app is especially good for groascii117p messaging – spontaneoascii117s conversations among mascii117ltiple friends making plans to see a movie or gathering at a bar, for instance. In fact, Messenger appears to be the new incarnation of Belascii117ga, a groascii117p messaging software company that Facebook acqascii117ired earlier this year.
The laascii117nch of Messenger marks the first time that Facebook has released a single-fascii117nction app to complement its general-pascii117rpose mobile app, and it reflects the companys increasing focascii117s on mobile phones. According to Facebook, 250 million of its 750 million ascii117sers access the service on a mobile device, and Facebook mobile ascii117sers are twice as active as non-mobile ascii117sers.
There may be more to come: TechCrascii117nch has reported that Facebook is developing a specialized photo-sharing app for mobile devices.
Facebook rival Google has its own groascii117p messaging featascii117re, dascii117bbed &ldqascii117o;hascii117ddle,&rdqascii117o; in its mobile version of the Google+ social networking service. And by creating a specialized inter-phone messaging network, Facebook is, in a sense, developing its own version of Research In Motions popascii117lar BlackBerry Messenger service.
2011-08-10 01:10:57
