New Facebook Messenger iPhone App Released [Download Link]

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Facebook, the world's biggest online social network has minutes ago, released a new iPhone app. This is not an update to Facebook for iPhone, its an entirely new app called Facebook Messenger and it hopes to take care of all your messaging needs on the iPhone.

Facebook is a mammoth social network. With nearly 700 million users, there's really no stopping the guys at Palo Alto. Facebook has particularly been innovating in its mobile division the result of which is the new Messenger app. When we first saw it, we couldn't help noticing a bit of iMessage, you know the new cross device messaging service Apple introduced with iOS 5, in the app itself.

Facebook reckons that messaging should be easy. They want to give you the ability to hit "Send" and know that the message has reached the person you sent it to. For that purpose, the new Facebook Messenger iPhone app has been released. It simplifies messaging and makes communicating with friends or groups considerably faster. You can use the Messenger app to send messages to your Facebook friends as well as people in your contact list, even if they are not on Facebook. Messages that you send using the Facebook Messenger iPhone app, are delivered via Notifications and text messages meaning that there is a 99% chance of the recipient actually getting the message. No more "i didn't get your message" excuses?

The new Facebook Messenger app is actually an extension to Facebook Messages meaning that all of your conversations, be it texts, emails, chats, messages are in one place. You can access the full history of your conversations through mobile or a web browser.

The Messenger iPhone app also allows you to send messages to multiple recipients at the same time, thus making it easier for you to coordinate the evening's plans with your buddies or stay in touch will all your staff back at the office, through one single medium. You can also share your location with those you are conversating with using the new Facebook Messenger iPhone app, should you do that, all people in the conversation will be able to see your location, and you their's, on a map. Attaching photos with the messages that you send is an added plus.

From today, the new Facebook Messenger iPhone app is available for both iPhone and iPod touch as well as for Android devices. Simply search for "Facebook Messenger" in the iTunes App Store. You can use this app on the iPad as well, but its not native so that means having to use it in that ruddy 2x magnified mode.

Alternatively, you can use the link provided below to download Facebook Messenger app for iPhone.

Download Facebook Messenger app for iPhone and iPod touch. [iTunes Link]

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