Video Calling Now Available on Facebook Messenger App

Users of Facebook’s Messenger app can now have face-to-face video conversations with friends, said Stan Chudnovsky, Messenger head of product, and Facebook Engineering Manager Param Reddy, in a blog post Monday. Video calls must be made from a cellphone to another mobile phone, but it doesn’t matter if one person is on iOS and the other on an Android device, the post said. “If you’re messaging with someone and realize that words just aren’t enough, you can simply choose the video icon in the top right corner of the screen and start a video call right from within an existing Messenger conversation.” Messenger already allows voice calls for its more than 600 million users and as of Monday, the video calling capabilities are available in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the U.K., the U.S. and Uruguay.