Vonage Makes Free Facebook Phone Call App 115
crimeandpunishment writes "Vonage has developed a new application for the iPhone and Android that provides free phone calls between Facebook users. Vonage's CEO says 'Essentially, we've given Facebook a voice.' Users sign in, see a list of Facebook friends who also have the app, and if they tap on a name a call is placed ... and it will go through even if the app isn't running on the friend's phone. The calling, which works over cellular broadband and Wi-Fi, doesn't use calling minutes but will use up data."
Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative)
Vonage awesome! Facebook - not so!
Anthropomorphized Facebook? (Score:4, Informative)
'Essentially, we've given Facebook a voice.'
He then added, 'But it creeps us out how the only thing it says is "kill me... kill me... kill me..." all day long.'
Re:Java app would have been nice, but... (Score:3, Informative)
I don't know the Symbian SDK, but according to wiki it uses a non-standard version of C++.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian_OS#Developing_on_Symbian_OS [wikipedia.org]
Objective-C is a new language, but it isn't particularly difficult to learn. If you know object oriented programming it takes perhaps a week to learn and a little while longer to get used to. What takes longer is the SDK, but I think that's true of all platforms.
Re:The great tradeoff (Score:3, Informative)