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Facebook tries adding video and voice calls back into its main app

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Ian Carlos Campbell
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Facebook is testing adding voice and video calls to the main Facebook app, Bloomberg reports. The features are currently part of the standalone Messenger app, which Facebook originally spun out of its big blue main app in 2011 and officially removed in 2014.

Voice and video calls are two of several Messenger features that Facebook has introduced in its other products like Portal video cameras and Oculus virtual reality headsets. The company hasn't shared if it plans to bring other parts of Messenger back into the fold, but Messenger's director of product management did tell Bloomberg that you're going to start to see quite a bit more of this over time."

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