New Facebook app aims to bring back the phone call

Mashable

Published 26 May 2020

The people whose calls you dodge are sure to love this new app from Facebook.

On May 26, Facebook's New Product Experimentation (NPE) Team announced the launch of an app that's basically Houseparty for phone calls (not video calls). CatchUp, which is free to download, lets users see who's available to voice chat, and then...

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New Facebook app aims to bring back the phone call

New Facebook app aims to bring back the phone call

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