Samsung is getting into the market that Apple, the maker of the iPhone, RIM, the maker of the BlackBerry, and Facebook are already in. Samsung, the maker of many popular mobile phones, "smart" and otherwise, introduced it's ChatON instant messaging service.Check out the original article here.
The ChatON service will allow users to send short messages to each other for free, including texts, photos, contacts, and calendar. The service will be available at first on Samsung devices running their "semi-smart" mobile operating system, called Bada.The service will later come as an app on Android and iOS devices. While the users of the Bada version will get the basic capabilities mentioned above, the users of the Android and iOS app will get some more advanced features, such as commenting on their friends profile pages, create special "animation messages", and keep track of how often they instant message.
A Samsung
device running Bada.Ho So Lee, Head of Media Solution Center at Samsung Electronics, said in a statement, "With ChatON, Samsung has vastly simplified mobile communication by allowing users to connect to our upcoming feature phones and all major smartphones in the market. Users around the world can now enjoy easier and richer interactivity with whoever they want, in the format they want."
While the ChatON service seems like a pretty good idea, like I mentioned at the beginning of the post, Samsung is competing with some pretty big contenders. RIM's BlackBerry Messenger was recently revamped to become more "social", Apple has a similar service coming out soon on all iOS devices, called iMessage, and of course Facebook, with more than 750 million users, recently launched it's Facebook Messenger app for iOS, so Samsung's app will have to be pretty good to compete.
Samsung's ChatON service will make it's official debut later this week at Berlin's IFA Conference, and will be available in over 120 countries with 62 languages.
So, the ChatON service has a lot to compete with, but it's one of the only services available on more than one platform, with it's Bada, iOS, and Android apps. Overall, it seems like a great service, and I wish it luck in succeeding in the large world of IM services.
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Minggu, 08 Januari 2012
Samsung's ChatON arrives in the AppStore.
Samsung's SMS-free text messaging app, called ChatON, has finally hit the Apple AppStore, making it available on Android, Bada, and iOS. Blackberry, Windows Phone, and web support is still to come. Check out the app on the AppStore here, visit the website here, and read about what it does below.
Kamis, 03 Maret 2011
[HOW-TO]: A TIP to Receive SMS Notification (Tested on Celcom Network)
- When you send an SMS, did you ever wonder whether the person at the other end have received your SMS or just ignore it?
- Here's a way to give you a notification when the SMS has been received safely (it will also notify when the person switched ON the phone)
- When you write an SMS, you can start with the first 3 characters *n#
- For example, you can send a message like this
*n#How are you? Did you get the message for dinner tonite?
- Once the person received the SMS safely, you will get a notification (for example):
Message for +6019XXXXXXX, with identification 11022819XXXX has been delivered on 2011-02-28 at 19:13:23
- Thus, there will be no reason for the person to say, he have not read the SMS or he switched off his phone etc.
- Can you guys try on other mobile operators and tell me whether it also works the same?
Selasa, 17 Agustus 2010
Trendspotting: The Future of SMS
This year’s Independence Day was slightly different from the earlier year(s). No it is nothing to do with Flag hoisting, or the fact that it came on a Sunday (and thus a holiday that got wasted)…. It was different because I did not receive even a single SMS from my friends or acquaintances wishing me a Happy Independence Day. Strange, because over the past few year it was a norm that during festivals and occasions your mobile phone keeps buzzing continuously because of the deluge of SMS being received. Also…neither did I send any SMS to anyone.
Well, it is not just Independence Day messages…. It is generally seen that people are slowly shifting from Short Message Services usage that the operators provide by default. Most of my SMS are limited to – I’m busy, call back category, My address/reference category, I’m avoiding talking to you category, and alternate to email category.
While the industry trends show that the volume of SMS messages would grow for the next few years… (with Global SMS messages reaching 3K Billion in 2010 – See the chart – location: http://www.telecom2.com/images/tekelec_fig1.gif )… I think in markets that are matured…specifically where a segment of the audience is matured and using phones with high-end features, the usage of SMS would have flattened, if not, started to decline.
If I were to look at the type of SMS that I’ve been receiving (I’ve mentioned above the categories of SMS’s that I send regularly)… it is mostly SPAM. Be it getting cheap personal loans, to buying a flat, to free Coke with Rs. 150/- worth of purchase…. Or even click and down load the latest Britney Spears video Free…. More than 80% of the SMS are junk… By and far the number of relevenat messages I get through SMS has reduced considerably from past few years back. The reason for the same is that the cost of calling has come down drastically, that people prefer (and in some instances/packages… it is cheaper) calling rather than texting to people they know
If I were to map the reason for communication (after all SMS texting is a mode of communication) with human behavior…it would give a fair idea what role SMS have been majorly playing and how it is being replaced by the latest trends in technology.
A typical human social network can be mapped in 3 circles… The inner circle, the intermediate circle, and the outer circle
The Inner circle is the close group of family, friends and immediate people with whom he regularly interacts. Here the communication is usually personal, with sight and touch playing an important role along with voice. Text is usually used when there is a lot of barrier in terms of the message getting across.
The Intermediate circle would consist again of friends, distant relatives, and colleagues…. Since there are a lot of barriers in terms of being at the same place most of the time… the preferred way of communication is voice or text… Here SMS would play a vital role.
The Outer circle is where there are many in the network, who are acquaintances, and others who are not in the active radar… Here the reason for communication is by and far rare and limited to specific occasions. Most of the time the message is neither personal nor one-to-one. It is here when SMS used to be used a lot…. But now is being replaced by real time social networking sites updates (with FB-Status updates, Twitter-What’s happening, etc)
Then there is another type which is more of broadcast type of message - “one message for all”. These messages usually cut across all the 3 circles….Generally many of the occasion based SMS fall in this category… the same is also being replaced by technology and proliferation of Social networking applications on the mobile phones
Taking the Independence Day wishes update – Most of the people in my network updated their status message (including myself) and thus had broadcasted what one needed to communicate on this occasion. Thus cutting down the need for sending a group SMS to all and sundry. Had it been few years back… each one of us (in my network) would have been sending at least 50 SMS messages.
As we go along the usage of SMS would get limited to Intermediate circle, with more and more proliferation of usage of mobile SNS applications and thus the quantity of SMS sent would decrease too.
My above reasoning is further backed by another seemingly unrelated development in the product offerings of a popular mobile service provider in India. There is a new ad of Tata DoCoMo – which talks about ‘pay per site’ data usage (watch here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV1-cHJmJac). The advertising carries prominently the logo of Twitter and Facebook. With a flat monthly rate you can access your favourite site and have unlimited data access… Such offerings surely would ring if not death knell…at least a serious blow to SMS
Or maybe SMS messages in its new Avatar would stand for – Social Media Status messages
Cheers
Santosh
Well, it is not just Independence Day messages…. It is generally seen that people are slowly shifting from Short Message Services usage that the operators provide by default. Most of my SMS are limited to – I’m busy, call back category, My address/reference category, I’m avoiding talking to you category, and alternate to email category.
While the industry trends show that the volume of SMS messages would grow for the next few years… (with Global SMS messages reaching 3K Billion in 2010 – See the chart – location: http://www.telecom2.com/images/tekelec_fig1.gif )… I think in markets that are matured…specifically where a segment of the audience is matured and using phones with high-end features, the usage of SMS would have flattened, if not, started to decline.
If I were to look at the type of SMS that I’ve been receiving (I’ve mentioned above the categories of SMS’s that I send regularly)… it is mostly SPAM. Be it getting cheap personal loans, to buying a flat, to free Coke with Rs. 150/- worth of purchase…. Or even click and down load the latest Britney Spears video Free…. More than 80% of the SMS are junk… By and far the number of relevenat messages I get through SMS has reduced considerably from past few years back. The reason for the same is that the cost of calling has come down drastically, that people prefer (and in some instances/packages… it is cheaper) calling rather than texting to people they know
If I were to map the reason for communication (after all SMS texting is a mode of communication) with human behavior…it would give a fair idea what role SMS have been majorly playing and how it is being replaced by the latest trends in technology.
A typical human social network can be mapped in 3 circles… The inner circle, the intermediate circle, and the outer circle
The Inner circle is the close group of family, friends and immediate people with whom he regularly interacts. Here the communication is usually personal, with sight and touch playing an important role along with voice. Text is usually used when there is a lot of barrier in terms of the message getting across.
The Intermediate circle would consist again of friends, distant relatives, and colleagues…. Since there are a lot of barriers in terms of being at the same place most of the time… the preferred way of communication is voice or text… Here SMS would play a vital role.
The Outer circle is where there are many in the network, who are acquaintances, and others who are not in the active radar… Here the reason for communication is by and far rare and limited to specific occasions. Most of the time the message is neither personal nor one-to-one. It is here when SMS used to be used a lot…. But now is being replaced by real time social networking sites updates (with FB-Status updates, Twitter-What’s happening, etc)
Then there is another type which is more of broadcast type of message - “one message for all”. These messages usually cut across all the 3 circles….Generally many of the occasion based SMS fall in this category… the same is also being replaced by technology and proliferation of Social networking applications on the mobile phones
Taking the Independence Day wishes update – Most of the people in my network updated their status message (including myself) and thus had broadcasted what one needed to communicate on this occasion. Thus cutting down the need for sending a group SMS to all and sundry. Had it been few years back… each one of us (in my network) would have been sending at least 50 SMS messages.
As we go along the usage of SMS would get limited to Intermediate circle, with more and more proliferation of usage of mobile SNS applications and thus the quantity of SMS sent would decrease too.
My above reasoning is further backed by another seemingly unrelated development in the product offerings of a popular mobile service provider in India. There is a new ad of Tata DoCoMo – which talks about ‘pay per site’ data usage (watch here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV1-cHJmJac). The advertising carries prominently the logo of Twitter and Facebook. With a flat monthly rate you can access your favourite site and have unlimited data access… Such offerings surely would ring if not death knell…at least a serious blow to SMS
Or maybe SMS messages in its new Avatar would stand for – Social Media Status messages
Cheers
Santosh
Trendspotting: The Future of SMS
This year’s Independence Day was slightly different from the earlier year(s). No it is nothing to do with Flag hoisting, or the fact that it came on a Sunday (and thus a holiday that got wasted)…. It was different because I did not receive even a single SMS from my friends or acquaintances wishing me a Happy Independence Day. Strange, because over the past few year it was a norm that during festivals and occasions your mobile phone keeps buzzing continuously because of the deluge of SMS being received. Also…neither did I send any SMS to anyone.
Well, it is not just Independence Day messages…. It is generally seen that people are slowly shifting from Short Message Services usage that the operators provide by default. Most of my SMS are limited to – I’m busy, call back category, My address/reference category, I’m avoiding talking to you category, and alternate to email category.
While the industry trends show that the volume of SMS messages would grow for the next few years… (with Global SMS messages reaching 3K Billion in 2010 – See the chart – location: http://www.telecom2.com/images/tekelec_fig1.gif )… I think in markets that are matured…specifically where a segment of the audience is matured and using phones with high-end features, the usage of SMS would have flattened, if not, started to decline.
If I were to look at the type of SMS that I’ve been receiving (I’ve mentioned above the categories of SMS’s that I send regularly)… it is mostly SPAM. Be it getting cheap personal loans, to buying a flat, to free Coke with Rs. 150/- worth of purchase…. Or even click and down load the latest Britney Spears video Free…. More than 80% of the SMS are junk… By and far the number of relevenat messages I get through SMS has reduced considerably from past few years back. The reason for the same is that the cost of calling has come down drastically, that people prefer (and in some instances/packages… it is cheaper) calling rather than texting to people they know
If I were to map the reason for communication (after all SMS texting is a mode of communication) with human behavior…it would give a fair idea what role SMS have been majorly playing and how it is being replaced by the latest trends in technology.
A typical human social network can be mapped in 3 circles… The inner circle, the intermediate circle, and the outer circle
The Inner circle is the close group of family, friends and immediate people with whom he regularly interacts. Here the communication is usually personal, with sight and touch playing an important role along with voice. Text is usually used when there is a lot of barrier in terms of the message getting across.
The Intermediate circle would consist again of friends, distant relatives, and colleagues…. Since there are a lot of barriers in terms of being at the same place most of the time… the preferred way of communication is voice or text… Here SMS would play a vital role.
The Outer circle is where there are many in the network, who are acquaintances, and others who are not in the active radar… Here the reason for communication is by and far rare and limited to specific occasions. Most of the time the message is neither personal nor one-to-one. It is here when SMS used to be used a lot…. But now is being replaced by real time social networking sites updates (with FB-Status updates, Twitter-What’s happening, etc)
Then there is another type which is more of broadcast type of message - “one message for all”. These messages usually cut across all the 3 circles….Generally many of the occasion based SMS fall in this category… the same is also being replaced by technology and proliferation of Social networking applications on the mobile phones
Taking the Independence Day wishes update – Most of the people in my network updated their status message (including myself) and thus had broadcasted what one needed to communicate on this occasion. Thus cutting down the need for sending a group SMS to all and sundry. Had it been few years back… each one of us (in my network) would have been sending at least 50 SMS messages.
As we go along the usage of SMS would get limited to Intermediate circle, with more and more proliferation of usage of mobile SNS applications and thus the quantity of SMS sent would decrease too.
My above reasoning is further backed by another seemingly unrelated development in the product offerings of a popular mobile service provider in India. There is a new ad of Tata DoCoMo – which talks about ‘pay per site’ data usage (watch here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV1-cHJmJac). The advertising carries prominently the logo of Twitter and Facebook. With a flat monthly rate you can access your favourite site and have unlimited data access… Such offerings surely would ring if not death knell…at least a serious blow to SMS
Or maybe SMS messages in its new Avatar would stand for – Social Media Status messages
Cheers
Santosh
Well, it is not just Independence Day messages…. It is generally seen that people are slowly shifting from Short Message Services usage that the operators provide by default. Most of my SMS are limited to – I’m busy, call back category, My address/reference category, I’m avoiding talking to you category, and alternate to email category.
While the industry trends show that the volume of SMS messages would grow for the next few years… (with Global SMS messages reaching 3K Billion in 2010 – See the chart – location: http://www.telecom2.com/images/tekelec_fig1.gif )… I think in markets that are matured…specifically where a segment of the audience is matured and using phones with high-end features, the usage of SMS would have flattened, if not, started to decline.
If I were to look at the type of SMS that I’ve been receiving (I’ve mentioned above the categories of SMS’s that I send regularly)… it is mostly SPAM. Be it getting cheap personal loans, to buying a flat, to free Coke with Rs. 150/- worth of purchase…. Or even click and down load the latest Britney Spears video Free…. More than 80% of the SMS are junk… By and far the number of relevenat messages I get through SMS has reduced considerably from past few years back. The reason for the same is that the cost of calling has come down drastically, that people prefer (and in some instances/packages… it is cheaper) calling rather than texting to people they know
If I were to map the reason for communication (after all SMS texting is a mode of communication) with human behavior…it would give a fair idea what role SMS have been majorly playing and how it is being replaced by the latest trends in technology.
A typical human social network can be mapped in 3 circles… The inner circle, the intermediate circle, and the outer circle
The Inner circle is the close group of family, friends and immediate people with whom he regularly interacts. Here the communication is usually personal, with sight and touch playing an important role along with voice. Text is usually used when there is a lot of barrier in terms of the message getting across.
The Intermediate circle would consist again of friends, distant relatives, and colleagues…. Since there are a lot of barriers in terms of being at the same place most of the time… the preferred way of communication is voice or text… Here SMS would play a vital role.
The Outer circle is where there are many in the network, who are acquaintances, and others who are not in the active radar… Here the reason for communication is by and far rare and limited to specific occasions. Most of the time the message is neither personal nor one-to-one. It is here when SMS used to be used a lot…. But now is being replaced by real time social networking sites updates (with FB-Status updates, Twitter-What’s happening, etc)
Then there is another type which is more of broadcast type of message - “one message for all”. These messages usually cut across all the 3 circles….Generally many of the occasion based SMS fall in this category… the same is also being replaced by technology and proliferation of Social networking applications on the mobile phones
Taking the Independence Day wishes update – Most of the people in my network updated their status message (including myself) and thus had broadcasted what one needed to communicate on this occasion. Thus cutting down the need for sending a group SMS to all and sundry. Had it been few years back… each one of us (in my network) would have been sending at least 50 SMS messages.
As we go along the usage of SMS would get limited to Intermediate circle, with more and more proliferation of usage of mobile SNS applications and thus the quantity of SMS sent would decrease too.
My above reasoning is further backed by another seemingly unrelated development in the product offerings of a popular mobile service provider in India. There is a new ad of Tata DoCoMo – which talks about ‘pay per site’ data usage (watch here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV1-cHJmJac). The advertising carries prominently the logo of Twitter and Facebook. With a flat monthly rate you can access your favourite site and have unlimited data access… Such offerings surely would ring if not death knell…at least a serious blow to SMS
Or maybe SMS messages in its new Avatar would stand for – Social Media Status messages
Cheers
Santosh
Trendspotting: The Future of SMS
This year’s Independence Day was slightly different from the earlier year(s). No it is nothing to do with Flag hoisting, or the fact that it came on a Sunday (and thus a holiday that got wasted)…. It was different because I did not receive even a single SMS from my friends or acquaintances wishing me a Happy Independence Day. Strange, because over the past few year it was a norm that during festivals and occasions your mobile phone keeps buzzing continuously because of the deluge of SMS being received. Also…neither did I send any SMS to anyone.
Well, it is not just Independence Day messages…. It is generally seen that people are slowly shifting from Short Message Services usage that the operators provide by default. Most of my SMS are limited to – I’m busy, call back category, My address/reference category, I’m avoiding talking to you category, and alternate to email category.
While the industry trends show that the volume of SMS messages would grow for the next few years… (with Global SMS messages reaching 3K Billion in 2010 – See the chart – location: http://www.telecom2.com/images/tekelec_fig1.gif )… I think in markets that are matured…specifically where a segment of the audience is matured and using phones with high-end features, the usage of SMS would have flattened, if not, started to decline.
If I were to look at the type of SMS that I’ve been receiving (I’ve mentioned above the categories of SMS’s that I send regularly)… it is mostly SPAM. Be it getting cheap personal loans, to buying a flat, to free Coke with Rs. 150/- worth of purchase…. Or even click and down load the latest Britney Spears video Free…. More than 80% of the SMS are junk… By and far the number of relevenat messages I get through SMS has reduced considerably from past few years back. The reason for the same is that the cost of calling has come down drastically, that people prefer (and in some instances/packages… it is cheaper) calling rather than texting to people they know
If I were to map the reason for communication (after all SMS texting is a mode of communication) with human behavior…it would give a fair idea what role SMS have been majorly playing and how it is being replaced by the latest trends in technology.
A typical human social network can be mapped in 3 circles… The inner circle, the intermediate circle, and the outer circle
The Inner circle is the close group of family, friends and immediate people with whom he regularly interacts. Here the communication is usually personal, with sight and touch playing an important role along with voice. Text is usually used when there is a lot of barrier in terms of the message getting across.
The Intermediate circle would consist again of friends, distant relatives, and colleagues…. Since there are a lot of barriers in terms of being at the same place most of the time… the preferred way of communication is voice or text… Here SMS would play a vital role.
The Outer circle is where there are many in the network, who are acquaintances, and others who are not in the active radar… Here the reason for communication is by and far rare and limited to specific occasions. Most of the time the message is neither personal nor one-to-one. It is here when SMS used to be used a lot…. But now is being replaced by real time social networking sites updates (with FB-Status updates, Twitter-What’s happening, etc)
Then there is another type which is more of broadcast type of message - “one message for all”. These messages usually cut across all the 3 circles….Generally many of the occasion based SMS fall in this category… the same is also being replaced by technology and proliferation of Social networking applications on the mobile phones
Taking the Independence Day wishes update – Most of the people in my network updated their status message (including myself) and thus had broadcasted what one needed to communicate on this occasion. Thus cutting down the need for sending a group SMS to all and sundry. Had it been few years back… each one of us (in my network) would have been sending at least 50 SMS messages.
As we go along the usage of SMS would get limited to Intermediate circle, with more and more proliferation of usage of mobile SNS applications and thus the quantity of SMS sent would decrease too.
My above reasoning is further backed by another seemingly unrelated development in the product offerings of a popular mobile service provider in India. There is a new ad of Tata DoCoMo – which talks about ‘pay per site’ data usage (watch here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV1-cHJmJac). The advertising carries prominently the logo of Twitter and Facebook. With a flat monthly rate you can access your favourite site and have unlimited data access… Such offerings surely would ring if not death knell…at least a serious blow to SMS
Or maybe SMS messages in its new Avatar would stand for – Social Media Status messages
Cheers
Santosh
Well, it is not just Independence Day messages…. It is generally seen that people are slowly shifting from Short Message Services usage that the operators provide by default. Most of my SMS are limited to – I’m busy, call back category, My address/reference category, I’m avoiding talking to you category, and alternate to email category.
While the industry trends show that the volume of SMS messages would grow for the next few years… (with Global SMS messages reaching 3K Billion in 2010 – See the chart – location: http://www.telecom2.com/images/tekelec_fig1.gif )… I think in markets that are matured…specifically where a segment of the audience is matured and using phones with high-end features, the usage of SMS would have flattened, if not, started to decline.
If I were to look at the type of SMS that I’ve been receiving (I’ve mentioned above the categories of SMS’s that I send regularly)… it is mostly SPAM. Be it getting cheap personal loans, to buying a flat, to free Coke with Rs. 150/- worth of purchase…. Or even click and down load the latest Britney Spears video Free…. More than 80% of the SMS are junk… By and far the number of relevenat messages I get through SMS has reduced considerably from past few years back. The reason for the same is that the cost of calling has come down drastically, that people prefer (and in some instances/packages… it is cheaper) calling rather than texting to people they know
If I were to map the reason for communication (after all SMS texting is a mode of communication) with human behavior…it would give a fair idea what role SMS have been majorly playing and how it is being replaced by the latest trends in technology.
A typical human social network can be mapped in 3 circles… The inner circle, the intermediate circle, and the outer circle
The Inner circle is the close group of family, friends and immediate people with whom he regularly interacts. Here the communication is usually personal, with sight and touch playing an important role along with voice. Text is usually used when there is a lot of barrier in terms of the message getting across.
The Intermediate circle would consist again of friends, distant relatives, and colleagues…. Since there are a lot of barriers in terms of being at the same place most of the time… the preferred way of communication is voice or text… Here SMS would play a vital role.
The Outer circle is where there are many in the network, who are acquaintances, and others who are not in the active radar… Here the reason for communication is by and far rare and limited to specific occasions. Most of the time the message is neither personal nor one-to-one. It is here when SMS used to be used a lot…. But now is being replaced by real time social networking sites updates (with FB-Status updates, Twitter-What’s happening, etc)
Then there is another type which is more of broadcast type of message - “one message for all”. These messages usually cut across all the 3 circles….Generally many of the occasion based SMS fall in this category… the same is also being replaced by technology and proliferation of Social networking applications on the mobile phones
Taking the Independence Day wishes update – Most of the people in my network updated their status message (including myself) and thus had broadcasted what one needed to communicate on this occasion. Thus cutting down the need for sending a group SMS to all and sundry. Had it been few years back… each one of us (in my network) would have been sending at least 50 SMS messages.
As we go along the usage of SMS would get limited to Intermediate circle, with more and more proliferation of usage of mobile SNS applications and thus the quantity of SMS sent would decrease too.
My above reasoning is further backed by another seemingly unrelated development in the product offerings of a popular mobile service provider in India. There is a new ad of Tata DoCoMo – which talks about ‘pay per site’ data usage (watch here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV1-cHJmJac). The advertising carries prominently the logo of Twitter and Facebook. With a flat monthly rate you can access your favourite site and have unlimited data access… Such offerings surely would ring if not death knell…at least a serious blow to SMS
Or maybe SMS messages in its new Avatar would stand for – Social Media Status messages
Cheers
Santosh
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