Facebook Says Hello to New Android Dialer, Caller ID App

The Phone Android dialer application Facebook was testing last month has been rechristened Hello, and it was officially rolled out in the Google Play store Wednesday.

HelloThe Phone Android dialer application Facebook was testing last month has been rechristened Hello, and it was officially rolled out in the Google Play store Wednesday.

Hello, currently available only for Android, serves as a phone dialer, caller ID provider, search engine and blocker of unwanted calls.

Android Police reported last month that an app called Phone was discovered in the Google Play store, and the two apps are clearly one in the same, since the Google Play URL for Hello contains “Facebook Phone.”

The entry for Phone last month was labeled “FB-ONLY,” likely meaning that it was only intended for use by employees of the social network, and users attempting to install it were unsuccessful, encountering “no page found” errors, which Android Police believed was due to the app being stored on Facebook’s internal servers.

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