Staying connected is what people are looking forward to these days. Be it business executives or crazy lovers at night, connectivity is something that everyone puts at the top of their priority list. With smartphones re-inventing the future like nothing else, here’s a list of 4 best messaging apps that work just fine for any platform to keep you connected.
WhatsApp
Perhaps the most popular messaging app for Android, it’s also the most popular cross-platform messaging application. You connect with your contacts by entering in their mobile number; no email accounts or special PINs, just their digits. You have the standard push, sent and received notifications, which we come to expect. They’ve most recently added the “Share Location” where, as you may have guessed, you can send the person you’re chatting to your current location or choose from a list of locations around you. They’ve also included the ability to set a group icon for group chat. Now that’s on top of some amazing features like exporting chat history and implementing a broadcast message.
Perhaps the most popular messaging app for Android, it’s also the most popular cross-platform messaging application. You connect with your contacts by entering in their mobile number; no email accounts or special PINs, just their digits. You have the standard push, sent and received notifications, which we come to expect. They’ve most recently added the “Share Location” where, as you may have guessed, you can send the person you’re chatting to your current location or choose from a list of locations around you. They’ve also included the ability to set a group icon for group chat. Now that’s on top of some amazing features like exporting chat history and implementing a broadcast message.
Key Features:
Chat in groups
Share your location
Chat with your phone contacts
Push notifications
Send unlimited Text & MMS for free
Platforms: Android, BlackBerry, iOS and Symbian
Chat in groups
Share your location
Chat with your phone contacts
Push notifications
Send unlimited Text & MMS for free
Platforms: Android, BlackBerry, iOS and Symbian
Download: www.whatsapp.com
GroupMe
GroupMe is the best way to chat with everyone you know. Its absolutely free, whether you’re talking to a group of friends, or texting with one person. Best of all, it works on nearly every phone, via push or SMS. With GroupMe, its easy to reach anyone, anytime. anywhere. On GroupMe, you can catch up with your family. get a group together for a night out, coordinate with co-workers, or just gossip with a few of your closest friends. Think about it like your own private Twitter, just for the people you really know. Or like a faster, better reply-all email.
Key Features:
Conference calling
Group Messaging
Private chat
Voice calling
Virtual chat rooms
Group Messaging
Private chat
Voice calling
Virtual chat rooms
Platforms: Android, BlackBerry, iOS and Windows Phone 7
Download: www.groupme.com
LiveProfile
LiveProfile helps you stay connected with friends in real-time. LiveProfile is the crazy fast, completely free, cross-platform messenger for Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry smartphones. It has already managed to rope in over 10 million users worldwide and has some mind blowing features that puts it way ahead in the list against others.
Key Features:
- Real-time with delivery receipts: live profile messages are delivered in milliseconds. You can see when messages are sent, delivered, read, and even when the other person is typing a message.
- 100% free forever: unlimited and free messaging to any mobile device, anywhere in the world, on any carrier. As long as your phone can connect to the internet you can use live profile. Live profile doesn’t use your sms texting plan.
- Stay connected and online: it’s always on and connected making you and your friends reachable. It utilizes push notifications so there is absolutely no battery usage while in the background.
- Push notifications, offline messaging, emoticons, pins, status updates, multimedia sharing, landscape mode, beautiful and intuitive user interface, no ads, add friends, invite friends, and more!
Platforms: Android, BlackBerry, iOS
Download: www.liveprofile.com
Touch
Until recently. Touch had been the application my wife frequently used. Now that the developer has ceased support for Touch’s predecessor PingChat, they can focus on adding to the impressive feature lineup that has been built into Touch. While it may not have an export chat history option available, it does boast message encryption and the ability to block people. The layout of touch is extremely fluid and provides more of a social network type of feel, through its Activity Stream, that makes you almost forget the cross-platform messaging capabilities. You are able to send media, as you can with most apps of this type, but you have to do so from within Touch itself. Its not an easy process either, as you have to scroll through a list of your pictures and! or videos until you get to the right one. Whatsapp provides functionality within the BlackBerry menu, allowing you to quickly send the image or video you’re looking at. Additionally, the response time of touch is outstanding. If you are a Pingchat user and you want to upgrade to Touch, you’ll find the process to be effortless.
Key Features:
- Message your friends through Chats that feel like you are talking in person. Enjoy chatting with unlimited text, video, and voice messaging, delivery and read receipts, typing status, and top-notch speed and reliability.
- Share your life with those closest to you through Experiences that make the distance fade away.
- Touch has been built to provide a personal, simple and powerful experience to let you maintain your closest relationships. Keep in touch with your friends on iOS, Android and BlackBerry through Touch.
Platforms: Android, BlackBerry, iOS
Download: http://appworld.blackberry.com