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Vonage Makes Free Facebook Phone Call App

Posted by timothy on from the interestinger-and-interestinger dept.

crimeandpunishment writes "Vonage has developed a new application for the iPhone and Android that provides free phone calls between Facebook users. Vonage's CEO says 'Essentially, we've given Facebook a voice.' Users sign in, see a list of Facebook friends who also have the app, and if they tap on a name a call is placed ... and it will go through even if the app isn't running on the friend's phone. The calling, which works over cellular broadband and Wi-Fi, doesn't use calling minutes but will use up data."

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  1. Anonymous Coward by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Vonage awesome! Facebook - not so!

  2. Anthropomorphized Facebook? by Captain+Spam · · Score: 4, Informative

    'Essentially, we've given Facebook a voice.'

    He then added, 'But it creeps us out how the only thing it says is "kill me... kill me... kill me..." all day long.'

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    Demanding constant attention will only lead to attention.
  3. Re:Java app would have been nice, but... by grouchomarxist · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't know the Symbian SDK, but according to wiki it uses a non-standard version of C++.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian_OS#Developing_on_Symbian_OS

    Objective-C is a new language, but it isn't particularly difficult to learn. If you know object oriented programming it takes perhaps a week to learn and a little while longer to get used to. What takes longer is the SDK, but I think that's true of all platforms.

  4. Re:The great tradeoff by socsoc · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you don't know how to spoof the MAC on a laptop, don't be reading news for nerds.