Joining RIM and Apple, Samsung today announced that it will launch its own mobile communication service. Its ChatON service will be global, free, and work “across all major Smartphone and feature phone platforms.” It will support the sharing of text, images, hand-written notes and video instantly. A web client will also be available to allow for exchanges between mobile devices and PCs.
ChatON will offer two different versions. A basic version for feature phones will support text, pictures and calendars. A more advanced version will allow richer communications between people, including an Interaction Rank feature, animated messages, and a ‘Trunk’ feature showing photos and videos shared in conversations. The following video gives you a sense of what we can look forward to:
ChatON will be available in more than 120 countries supporting up to 62 languages on smartphones, tablets and laptops. Deployment is expected to begin after IFA 2011. Android, bada and feature phone versions will be ready first with iOS and BlackBerry versions out perhaps by the end of the year.
Source: Samsung Tomorrow