SEOUL - Samsung IM service will work on all major smartphone platforms including iPhone and BlackBerry, and will allow users to send text, and pictures, and chatting in groups and share video clips.
Samsung IM service will work on all major smartphone platforms including iPhone and BlackBerry
Samsung Electronics (Samsung) ready to present services of instant messaging (IM) alone. This brought the seriousness of manufacturers from South Korea to challenge the kind of service that the BlackBerry made by Research in Motion (RIM), and Apple's soon launch a similar service.
Samsung's latest service called ChatOn is rumored to be soon slid in October and will feature pre-installed on some mobile phone features Samsung. In addition, smart phones will also be presenting ChatOn running on Android operating system, and Bada.
Quoted by Reuters on Saturday (09/03/2011), the presence of this ChatOn certainly advantageous for Samsung mobile phone users, but not for the operator. With the advent of instant messaging service message that increasingly crowded, it's obviously hitting the revenue for operators, who have lost from the sector of SMS messages.
Regardless, the presence of IM-style BBM is getting crowded. The proof, in addition to the BlackBerry and Samsung, other vendors such as Apple also expressed interest in the same. Even Apple had planned to bring iMessage to connect millions of iPhone and iPad users to be able to send messages at no cost.
