If the caller has left their “Who can look you up using the phone number you provided?” privacy setting to the default of “Everyone” or a more private category like “Friends Of Friends” that you’re part of, it will show their name and profile picture. When a Hello user receives a call, Facebook will reference the phone number against its database. It can also serve as an enhanced version of your phone book, with extra info about friends and others shown inline as you scroll through contacts. With permission, Hello will add profile pictures and other info to the contacts in your address book. Here are Hello’s features: Synced Phone Book Once downloaded, you sign in with Facebook, and give it permissions to sync your contacts with Facebook and interact with calls. After that, you can decide whether you want to actively use Hello, or let it just passively surface information about incoming calls. If the test goes well, more countries will be added in the coming weeks. Starting today, access to test the Hello app will start rolling out to Android users in the US, Brazil, and Nigeria. It’s core to how people connect with each other, including family and close friends, but also businesses and colleagues” Vaccari exclaims. Hello’s blocking feature could return control to a number’s owner. While other forms of communication often require our consent, a telemarketer can buy your number and call you incessantly without permission. Vaccari also laments that “Anyone with your number can ring you day or night and interrupt you”. In that sense, Hello shares some DNA with Google’s contextual computing system Google Now. Hello could solve this by giving you the context needed to intelligently decide whether this is someone you want to talk to or not.
But it could be someone you want to talk to.
“If you get a call from a number you don’t know, you probably don’t answer it” he tells me. Vaccari lays out a few big ways that phone calling is broken today. David and the Messenger team were also very supportive.” The app will continue development as part of Facebook’s Creative Labs initiative for building standalone apps. A few months ago we showed it to Mark and he really liked it, and he gave us support to build it. This started as a small group of people passionate about this opportunity. He came to Facebook with the acquisition of his social location startup Glancee, and was the lead on one of the company’s smartest recent product launches, Nearby Friends. Hello was built over the last year by a lean team connected to Facebook Messenger, and led by Vaccari.
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