Facebook is testing a new app called Phone. It seems to be a dialer replacement. It's not very clear whether the Phone app would be an expansion of existing voice-calling feature or standalone service.
Phone will show you more detailed information about incoming calls about who's calling and automatically blocks calls from commonly blocked numbers, a lot like the Whitepages Caller ID app. Presumably, Facebook will also be anonymizing your incoming call data for marketing and research purposes, because why else would they want to release an app like this?
Here's what Zuckerberg said earlier this year about Facebook's failure to create its own phone:
"It's something that certainly is a little bit stressful. Maybe we can help people out more, or deliver our services a little bit better if we had more partnerships with the operating systems we were using to build our stuff. But it's not something that I'm that stressed about at this point."
SOURCE: Android Police
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