Today, at the BlackBerry Live Keynote, the company announced that it will be launching BBM on iOS and Android this Summer. This is a big move for the company that has found itself increasingly trapped in a prison of its own making. Read More >>
Featured comment by jacal2011:
"Doesn't matter, simple chat is more than enough for me between friends on a different device. I wouldn't move back to a BB just so I can get a little ..." More »
Real-time chat has been everywhere for, you know, forever now and has swallowed everything in its path. Integrating chat platforms and finding a way to coherently deal with texting vs. chatting has become a major issue. Other than venting here in hallowed Gizmodo chatroom posts, how do you manage all the Google chat options, Facebook chat, Skype and everything else? Chit chat below. Read More >>
For a long time now, our smartphones have been getting more and more, well, smart. They do more things. You probably haven’t beaten your phone at chess in years. And the race to cram increasingly granular, eventually useless, features into them has defined the past few years of phone making. Except the next big waypoint won’t be some technological marvel like week-long battery life. It’s something much simpler: Plain old chat. Read More >>
Featured comment by craigj:
"RE: Apple iMessage
quote: "There’s now no way to sync your chat logs across computers, let alone to your phone"
I've got an iMac, MacBook Air, i..." More »
Here's an interesting tidbit. 9to5Mac got hold of a supposed leaked email from WhatsApp sent to a developer in Hong Kong asking for the Chinese translation of "push-to-talk". Is WhatsApp going to add walkie-talkie-like voice blips soon? Read More >>
Featured comment by irononreverse:
"Perhaps they're streamlining it so it isn't actually a chore to use. Hold button, talk, let go and it's sent. That's how most other apps do it." More »
Apparently messaging apps like WhatsApp have finally overtaken SMS as the medium of choice for burst-fire messages. According to new stats, 1.4 billion more chat-app messages were sent than texts last year, marking the first time the humble SMS has been beaten. Read More >>
This may or may not come as a surprise to you, but according to the numbers, WhatsApp messenger is actually bigger than Twitter now. It pushes a colossal 12 billion outbound and 8 billion inbound messages daily, and has 200 million monthly active users. The best thing, though? No ads. Read More >>
Well, someone's going to be proven a big old liar by the course of time, with yesterday's rumour of a Google/WhatsApp deal now quashed by the cross-format messaging company. Read More >>
Internet rumour has it that Google is currently negotiating terms for the purchase of hot cross-platform messaging app WhatsApp, with a final price expected to top out near the hallowed one billion dollars mark. That's about £652,000,000 which doesn't sound quite as cool. Read More >>
Featured comment by JulianT:
"I think you overestimate the tech level of my friends....half of them still have dumb phones and I'm the go-to-guy for any pc issues and I'm hardly Bi..." More »
The WhatsApp, err, app may be free, but the service isn't. You're going to have to pay a yearly subscription fee to keep messaging people, even if you're an iPhone user. Read More >>
The popular Whatsapp? messaging tool might be the next big money mobile acquisition, with Facebook said to be aiming its enormous wallet in the direction of the cross-platform chat app. Read More >>
Featured comment by Jon D:
"Please.. anyone but Facebook!
Ok not RIM either, but I like Whatsapp. dont ruin it for me!
And I've never had to pay for it either. They told me..." More »
If you've been keeping your eyes on Windows Phone, but have been holding off on switching over until it gets a few more crucial features and/or apps, here's an interesting rumour: WMPowerUser says that Microsoft is working on a new group chat feature called Room, which apparently works in a similar manner as BlackBerry Instant Messenger or the group message feature in Apple's iMessage. Read More >>
The shyness of the nation has been exposed by new data from communications regulator Ofcom, which has found that we'd much rather communicate by impersonal text message than go to the effort of making an actual voice call. Read More >>
Featured comment by Udimion:
"Is it not at least partially down to the fact that so many contracts nowadays come with 'unlimited' texts but limited minutes." More »
Google unveiled its newest messaging service iteration at the I/O conference today, aptly named Google Cloud Messaging. While it's obviously geared up for app developers, users will also see significant performance improvements as the new standard is adopted. Here's what's in store. Read More >>
Featured comment by Glenbot3000:
"I don't think this is messaging like people are picturing (akin to BBM, iMessage), but rather a way for developers to interact with your device remote..." More »
Android is awesome and powerful, but it has, shall we say, a learning curve. That scares some people away. After all, iOS is so intuitive that babies can use it. Literally. But you're not a baby. Read More >>
Featured comment by 143lsb:
"If you want, I can take it off your hands for you. Since you clearly can't get into it. Just think of it as a charitable donation to your local neighb..." More »
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