With the Tuesday release of a new Messenger application, Facebook is making a much stronger case to be your go-to smartphone app for instantly getting ahold of friends and address book contacts.
The new Facebook Messenger app constitutes a dramatic renovation over versions past and introduces enhancements in speed, function, and design. The app, available to a limited audience onAndroid to start, attempts to again make compelling a growing stale experience that simply mirrored the messaging experience inside Facebook's flagship mobile application.
Messenger's fundamental change is something Facebook calls "mobile-to-mobile," an apt catchphrase meant to signify that people using the app are immediately available to each other on their smartphones.
The philosophy is embodied in how Facebook Messenger displays contacts, delivers messages, processes notifications, and allows people to sendover-the-top messages in lieu of text messages to their smartphone contacts who are not already their Facebook friends.
Contacts that also use Messenger, for instance, are denoted by a little blue lightning bolt badge. Everyone else gets a Facebook badge. And if a Messenger user doesn't have push notifications enabled than that person won't get the lightning bolt badge because they may not be able to be reached right away.
Via :CNET News
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