{"id":645341,"date":"2013-03-05T11:12:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T16:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/?p=152945"},"modified":"2013-03-05T11:12:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T16:12:30","slug":"canadian-users-get-voice-calling-via-facebook-messenger-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/645341","title":{"rendered":"Canadian users get voice calling via Facebook Messenger for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a  href=\"http:\/\/redirectingat.com\/?id=3031X597718&#038;xs=1&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.talkandroid.com%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F03%2FFacebook_VoIP_Voice_Calling.png&#038;sref=rss\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-152946\" alt=\"Facebook_VoIP_Voice_Calling\" src=\"http:\/\/img.talkandroid.com\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Facebook_VoIP_Voice_Calling-630x393.png\" width=\"630\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever since Facebook <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/148443-facebook-for-android-gets-updated-brings-voice-messaging-support\/\">added voice messages<\/a> as part of their Messenger service, we knew that the next eventual step would be voice calling or VoIP. They already start VoIP through Messenger for iOS users in the U.S., but nothing was available for Android users until now. The latest Android update added it, but only for our friends up north in Canada.\u00a0Canadian users can now make calls over WiFi or their mobile data connection to other Facebook friends in Canada or even those in the U.S. provided they are on iOS. They can also start and name group conversations.<\/p>\n<p>At some point in the future we will probably only need a data plan from our mobile providers and Facebook is making it that much closer. Utilizing VoIP on our mobile phones makes sense, but it probably won&#8217;t take off until the major carriers stop forcing us to have calling plans.<\/p>\n<p>source: <a  href=\"http:\/\/redirectingat.com\/?id=3031X597718&#038;xs=1&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fca.ibtimes.com%2Farticles%2F442164%2F20130304%2Ffacebook-adds-calling-feature-messenger-andorid-app.htm&#038;sref=rss\">ca.ibtimes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Come comment on this article: <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/152945-canadian-users-get-voice-calling-via-facebook-messenger-for-android\/\">Canadian users get voice calling via Facebook Messenger for Android<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\"><small>Visit <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/\">TalkAndroid for Android news<\/a>, <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/guides\/\">Android guides<\/a>, and much more!<\/small><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AndroidNewsGoogleAndroidForums\/~4\/Q7iUshNDKIQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Facebook added voice messages as part of their Messenger service, we knew that the next eventual step would be voice calling or VoIP. They already start VoIP through Messenger for iOS users in the U.S., but nothing was available for Android users until now. The latest Android update added it, but only for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}