Facebook's "Hello" Tells You Who's Calling Before You Pick Up

Mark Wilson writes: When you receive a call you'll usually see the number of the caller, but this may not be helpful in identifying them before you decide whether to pick up. Facebook's answer to this problem is Hello. This new app comes from the Facebook Messenger team and aims to tell you more about the person getting in touch with you even if you don't have their number saved in your address book. Currently available for Android, the dialer app also allows for the blocking of calls from individuals.

Comments

Re:Back to the future

[BitZtream]

A couple things to note:

It doesn't work on an iPhone, third party apps aren't allowed to steal information from you typically on iOS where as that is on by default on Android and its completely acceptable to steal your data.

iPhone owners typically purchase the phone AS a product. Android users typically ARE the product.

No one cares about the remaining 3 blackberry users or the 10 Windows Phones in the MS test lab.