Facebook Launches Standalone iPhone/Android Messenger App (And It?s Beluga)

Back in February Facebook acquired Beluga, a hot group messaging startup well known for having a killer 3-person team. At the time, fellow TC writer MG Siegler wondered aloud whether Facebook would release a standalone messaging app (which is what Beluga is), or if it had plans to work the technology and team into its recently-revamped Messages product, which it unveiled last fall. Today, we've got our answer: Facebook is launching a standalone application called Messenger for iOS and Android, and it deeply fuses the best features of Beluga with Facebook Messages (and Facebook's 750 million users). The app will be rolling out today on Apple's App Store, and should be available immediately on Android Market. Update: Here's the link for the iPhone app?and Android app. If you?ve used Beluga before, the app will be very familiar to you. And if you haven?t, it should also be pretty familiar ? because it?s a lot like the web-based version of Facebook messages.

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