For the first time in a long time I have felt actually
excited about a concept for a non-discriminative social messaging service – for
those who aren’t in the know yet, ChatOn is a Samsung developed social app
actually designed to bring people together regardless of the manufacturer of
their mobile handset. ChatOn is a unified, all singing, all dancing messaging
app which has a number of familiar features such as group chat, 1:1 chat and
photo messaging, but then adds some tweaked features for custom messages such
as hand writing etc...
Of course we could all think of one or two services out
there which claim to provide ‘all for one, one for all’ chat, but the problem
is none of them seem to have overtaken iChat or the mighty BBM – which specifically
encourage consumers to stick to specific handsets. What I’m getting at is We need someone to take the oar and bring us
together in chat!!
Personally I have been using ChatOn for a week or so, after
encouraging my sister and two colleagues to give the platform a try – two using
HTC Android handsets and one using a Blackberry device, and after two nights of
intense use and seemingly more casual messaging over the last few days here is
some feedback;
‘’It’s pretty good, I don’t see much a difference from how I
usually use BBM’’.
‘’I like it, but I’d prefer it if more people I knew were on
it...’’
I was happy to hear the first comment from a confessed BBM
addict as this told me one thing, it told me the app not only works, but it works
well cross-platform, nothing dramatically phasing and this leaves potential. As
for the second I guess it should take a strong will and word of mouth to fix
that problem!
I am not a heavy user of specific messaging applications and
confess the last IM service I used was MSN a number of years ago, but I can
really see myself using ChatOn more as I get more people using it as their
primary messaging service, below are my own ratings based on the last few days
of use.
Ease of use 5/5
Innovation 3/5
Popularity 2/5
User interface 5/5
Fun factor 4/5
I sincerely recommend giving this app a try as I feel it is
well made, and is definitely as fun as you make it. GET IT!!
ShredderBenjamin
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