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Samsung ChatON shutting down on February 1st

Samsung can't seem to make up its mind about ChatON, its not so popular messaging service for its Galaxy series of phones and tablets. The company recently refuted a rumor that ChatON was shutting down, but has now said that the service will indeed be seeing its demise in the near future. ChatON will cease […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
10 years ago

Samsung refutes reports of ChatOn being shut down in certain markets

Well, it seems among the many changes Samsung is planning on making to its mobile strategy in coming months, shutting down ChatOn in certain markets as earlier reported isn't one of them. A report from The Korea Times suggested Samsung will be removing the ChatOn service from certain markets around the world, but the Korean manufacturer has now […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
10 years ago

Samsung is planning to shut down ChatOn service in certain markets

Samsung's smartphone market share as well as profits are dwindling. In a bid to lower the expenses, Samsung is planning some major restructuring steps in management and plans to shut down certain unprofitable services. According to a latest report from Korea Times, Samsung will soon shut down its ChatOn instant messaging service in certain markets as […]

By Asif Iqbal Shaik
10 years ago

A majority of Galaxy S users do not like Samsung’s exclusive apps

A study discovered that a majority of Galaxy S users do not appreciate Samsung’s exclusive suite of apps. Samsung has been oft-criticised in the past for bundling a lot of unnecessary and gimmicky features in its handsets, most of which did not work as advertised or were too complex to use. To make things worse, […]

By Harish J.
11 years ago

Samsung updates ChatON with message recall feature, larger file transfers, and more

Samsung has pushed a major update to its ChatON messaging app, adding a plethora of features and bumping the version to 3.5. The standout feature here is something privacy advocates should love – ChatON now allows users to recall/delete a message they might have sent to a contact, even if said contact has already received […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
11 years ago

Galaxy S5 to come with built-in multi-party conference call feature?

As is the case with every new flagship smartphone released by Samsung, the Galaxy S5 will likely feature numerous new software features to enhance the user experience, and we might just have a glimpse of at least one such feature – built-in conference calls capability (with video support) between multiple persons. A document filed to […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
11 years ago

Samsung’s ChatON messenger app gets SMS and MMS support

Google recently added the option to view SMS on a device via the Hangouts app (which was earlier called Talk), a feature that had been requested by Android users for quite some time. Well, Samsung decided it needed to do the same for its own chat app – the Korean firm's ChatON messaging app has […]

By Michael R.
11 years ago

Samsung updates ChatON with updated UI and features

You'd think Samsung would just boast about cranking up 100 million users on its ChatON messaging platform and leave it at that, but that didn't happen, and the Korean manufacturer has given ChatON a major upgrade to match the recent milestone. The update brings along a new flat interface that gels better with Google's design […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
11 years ago

Samsung’s ChatON messaging service reaches 100 million users

Samsung has announced that its ChatON messaging service now has a global subscriber base of over 100 million users, two years after it was launched, and four months after it hit the 50 million subscriber base. According to Samsung, ChatON has enjoyed steady growth in countries such as India, China, and the US, and is becoming […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
11 years ago

Samsung to launch smartphone UI and apps in 9 Indian languages

Samsung is making a big move towards supporting local Indian languages on their devices and has announced that it will offer its smartphone and tablet UI in nine Indian languages – Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi and Gujarati. The Galaxy S4, Grand, and Tab 3 will get support for the new languages from […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
11 years ago

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