Facebook Releases Standalone Messenger App for Android and iPhone

Send text messages and photos in no time with the new mobile chat application from Facebook.
Facebook just rolled out its new Facebook Messenger application for Android and iPhone devices. With this mobile app, users can easily send text messages through the social-networking service.
Having few similarities like the Beluga, the Facebook Messenger is perhaps the first mobile app which the company released beyond its official Facebook applications. In fact, the said app is already available in the Android Marketplace and iOS App Stores.
As stated by Ben Davenport, Beluga’s co-founder and Facebook engineer: “It’s a mobile app about real-time communication. All messages are sent and received in real time — no refreshing required.”
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