Free Voice Call Feature in Facebook

Free Voice Call Feature in Facebook and the 3 Biggest Alternatives 

Facebook has announced two biggest features last week. One is Facebook Graph Search, which will change the way you search your Facebook friends. The other one is sending free voice call feature in Facebook for all iPhone users. The calling feature was added to Facebook messenger last Wednesday, and got every ones attention. This amazing feature will now allow you to make calls from your iPhone, iPod and iPad with WiFi connections. People are excited to listen about this new calling feature from Facebook, and has already stared to utilize the service. Along with this service, we are also mentioning the other alternatives you can use for free voice calls worldwide.

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Free Voice Call Feature in Facebook: iPhone Users Only

The free voice call feature in Facebook is currently available to US iPhone users and people who wanted to make calls must have the Facebook messenger installed on their phones. Though this feature is definitely an amazing news for Facebook users, its still not the first one to offer this free service to iPhone users. Many companies had offered free calls to iPhone users earlier. Three biggest competitors for Facebook calling feature will be Viber and Skype and Vonage. These three apps are pretty popular, and can give a solid competition to Facebook free calling feature. Though Facebook has collaborated with Skype earlier for making free calls, they still got competition from Skype itself. You can check out the above image to look for a similar icon in your iPhone Facebook messenger.

Earlier this feature was tested with Canada users via WiFi calling option, and now its launched for US iPhone users too. After the good results, Facebook has finally announced the big news to US users and said you need not require any update through App Store. You can instantly make free calls by opening a conversation your Facebook friend and tap the “i” button in the top right corner to see Free Call option.

This calling feature in Facebook can be used via WiFi or data calling option. If you are using it via WiFi, you can even utilize your iPad and iPod touch for calling your Facebook friends for free. And when you are calling someone, the recipient will get a push notification saying “Lynda is calling.” and also buttons to Decline or Answer the call. The calling quality sounds really amazing and will surely compete Viber, Vonage and Skype.