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Vonage Mobile app brings voice calling to your Facebook friends list
Vonage just brought voice calling to Facebook with a new app for Android and iPhone devices. Vonage Mobile for Facebook lets you call any Facebook friend who has the app installed, without using Skype or having that friend's phone number. I like the concept of this app, considering that Facebook is usually the best contact list you can have, and not every friend you might want to talk to will share a phone number on a social networking page. The iPhone version of Vonage Mobile supports push notifications, so you can take calls while it's not running, which is handy. It also works as a Facebook chat client, if you'd like to IM people before you call them. Of course, it's not the Phone app, so it's relegated to using an iPhone headset instead of the phone speaker.
You can get the Vonage Mobile app in the iPhone App store or the Android Market. None of my 900-something Facebook friends have it yet, but I think I'll keep it on my phone and see if it catches on.
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Subscribe to commentsantAug 5th 2010 8:00AM
Ever heard of Jabber/XMPP? I'm not 100% sure how Vonage is doing this, but to me, it sounds like a slightly stripped down version of Jabber(I say stripped down because you can't conference call). I wonder if Facebook will eventually make this a commonplace practice. They want to know EVERYTHING about you, so why not have the tone of your voice and direct streamline to your thoughts included? You can set this up already with a chat client that supports XMPP, but unfortunately, not many on the mobile side(like Meebo or iChat or whatever you use) support it. Pidgin does though, so N900 users(like myself) have been able to use this. The only unfortunate part is finding other tech saavy friends commonly on Facebook...
http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php