You don’t need to be friends on Facebook as long as the information is publicly listed. Feel like ordering pizza? Search for your favorite restaurant and place a call. And while you won’t be able to place a regular call, you still have the option of calling or texting them over Facebook Messenger, and get access to whatever other contact information they have shared with you.Īnother very convenient feature is the ability to search for people and businesses’ numbers directly from the dialer app. You can also permanently block any number with a simple tap, and better yet, you can ask Hello to ignore calls from commonly blocked numbers, such as telemarketing people and other annoying callers.įacebook friends that haven’t shared their number with you will still show up as contacts. If you get a call from someone that’s not on your contacts, but that person has shared his or her number publicly or with you on Facebook, you’ll still be able to see who’s calling alongside a profile picture and other general information. You’ll still have access to all your address book contacts, and if the person is already a contact on Facebook you’ll get to see relevant details based on the information that has been shared with you.īut things get more interesting when it comes to unknown numbers. Hello continuously syncs and matches phone numbers of incoming and outgoing calls to Facebook profiles to show you info about who you’re talking to. But Facebook wants to get you excited about the utilitarian dialer again with Hello, a new app that rethinks the phone experience with a more intelligent caller ID, the ability to easily block or mute callers, and the option to search for people and businesses that aren’t necessarily on your address book. These days it seems less and less people use their smartphones to make actual calls.