Mark Zuckerberg's last attempt to overtake your smartphone may have flopped, but that isn't stopping him from giving it another try. Two years after the ill-fated Facebook Home project was first announced, the company is unveiling another phone-focused initiative today. Say hello to Facebook Hello.
As previously rumored, Facebook Hello is a blue-skinned replacement for the native phone dialer on Android. With it, users can mine Facebook's social graph for contacts and caller ID details, make calls over Wi-Fi, and easily move their conversations to the Facebook Messenger app, if desired. The app also supports call blocking, and even lets you know how many others have blocked the number.
With Hello, Facebook is taking a much quieter, less ambitious approach to creating what had for years been rumored as the inevitable "Facebook phone." Instead of building its handsets or even an operating system of its own, the company's foray into your pocket has focused more on individual apps. Facebook Home, which failed to win over many users, looked like something halfway between an OS and an app—essentially, a Facebook-branded skin for Android devices. When that didn't fly, Facebook switched to a much more subtle approach: infiltrating your phone by releasing one standalone app at a time, and even providing development and advertising tools for other app developers.
You can download facebook hello from PlayStore here.
