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App for text between iPhone users
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Nice looking icon, but this app does less than WhatApp, and WhatApp is still free.
Im glad he did in at least this thread. I've just downloaded it and it's pretty good!!
i am not advertising. i am answering OPs original question. and judging by his response below, i did the right thing. if you don't like it when people answer threads on the forums, maybe forums are not your thing?
thank you for the kind words
if you have any questions, feedback or suggestions, we are always glad to hear them. group chat, file xfer and more cool stuff is coming soon btw!
the idea is good, whatsapp looks nice, but do you guys really have a lot of iphone friends without text messaging? all of my iphone friends have text messaging. all i have to do is text them.
I can't speak for AIM, haven't used it in years, so someone can fill in the blanks. As far as friends having text messaging with your friends, this app has a invite feature that you send to your friends so they can install it.
Whats App
Message Receipts*
Push notification
Typing notification
Free International Texting
Online status
Buddy list
*coming in future update
For me has been great in this past 3 days, but to be honest, to really be a BBM-like application, then it MUST have MMS included. I won't complain about it for now, because it's free, but coming from Blackberry I really miss having the full SMS/MMS and other features that BBM gives to Blackberry users.
Hi jkb,
I'm really liking this app to communicate with my Wife's phone. The only thing I wish could be changed is the name of the app itself. To me, "whatsapp" does not describe this as a messaging app. A name more like "iMessenger/iMessage" would translate better as it would show that it's for messaging, and of course the "i" would indicate that this is for a apple/iphone-touch user base.
I'm really liking this app to communicate with my Wife's phone. The only thing I wish could be changed is the name of the app itself. To me, "whatsapp" does not describe this as a messaging app. A name more like "iMessenger/iMessage" would translate better as it would show that it's for messaging, and of course the "i" would indicate that this is for a apple/iphone-touch user base.
if name is the only thing you don't like about the app, that is a good thing
our name is suppose to be a pun on "What's Up", because that is what people usually say when they greet each other.
if name is the only thing you don't like about the app, that is a good thing
our name is suppose to be a pun on "What's Up", because that is what people usually say when they greet each other.
Right, I got that part. I guess my point was that it's very easy for people to be put off from trying the app because they dont know what the app does. After saying that, I hope this catches on and more people use it.
I did have one question, is it possible to have a message "pop up" even when the app is opened to a chat but the screen is off?
no, but we will be adding an option to disable screen auto lock in future versions.