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Those of you who are looking to ditch whatsapp now they have been purchased by facebook may have turned to Line .
another worthwhile looking at is called Telegram - https://telegram.org/faq
the main downside at the moment is it does not have voice/video capability but apparently that is being worked on.
open source encrypted communication software for both Android and IOS and desktop OS'
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...gram.messenger
Line is my standard one, Baldrick. Works really well; always preferred it to Whatsapp - free voice and video calls.
Same here Betts. The calls on Line are very clear.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bettyboo
I hate Line, all the stickers and shit.
Viber for calls and messages.
I always use Skype. Works OK from here to the UK, US or Argentina.
i use Line. tried WhatsApp for the first time in months yesterday and it wants my phone number again. cant be arsed with it.
they suck dogsQuote:
Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
the problem with Line is it is also a commercial product owned by a korean company
I have been using Line alongside with Whatsapp for quite a while , but now I want to move away from both to something less likely to be commercialised . if Telegram gets voice and video sorted I will be happy with it
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Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
Totally agree with shite line only made for Asian and teenagers (adults asian also are teenagers).
Viber is on the way to line shite also.
A bit stupid to leave WHATSAPP when Facebook exactly know that people will leave if they change anything...
Ah yes, maybe you are dreaming to still have any privacy in 2014 ? Yes, its just a dream !
The voice clarity is the best I have experienced, by far with Line.Quote:
Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
As for the stickers Harrold, if you don't like 'em, then don't use 'em. Simple really...
Anything else technical you need advise on?
:)
Line is actually looking to do voice calls to outside phones
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scheduled to launch this March in Japan, US, Mexico, Spain, Thailand and the Philippines.
Line is for teenage Thai girls.
Why would one want to find a replacement for Whats App?
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Originally Posted by Little Chuchok
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2014/02/5152.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Bobcock
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2014/02/5153.jpg
I haven't spoken to my wife in years, we communicate via Line cartoons... :)
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Line began as a response to disaster. Japan's devastating Tōhoku earthquake in March 2011 damaged telecommunications infrastructure nationwide, obliging employees at NHN Japan, a unit of Korea's NHN Corp, to rely on Internet-based resources to communicate. The company's engineers developed Line to facilitate this. NHN Japan released Line for public use in June 2011
facebook is for teenage girlsQuote:
Originally Posted by Bobcock
because they have just been purchased by facebook and they use your telephone number as a user ID and your IMEI number as the password and have not been very proactive at patching security holes and all your messages belong NSAQuote:
Originally Posted by Bobcock
Oovoo
Tango
ICQ
Fring
There's a Welsh app especially for you, Bob: :)
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for the teenaged girls still using whatsapp for its facebook synergy
a warning
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Scammers have slung together a scam designed to trick users into running malware disguised as a "desktop version" of the ultra-popular WhatsApp mobile messaging app.
Links promoted through a run of spam emails that began appearing last week actually lead to a banking Trojan rather than a PC version of the mobile-only app,
WhatsApp does not currently have a Windows or Mac client
Separately, malicious ads on Facebook are promoting a shady Android app that makes money through a premium rate SMS scam. The dodgy app poses as a means to view (snoop through) the WhatsApp conversations of a prospective mark's friends and appears to be targeted at Android users in Spain.
Facebook, now there's a whole other story......
$1m to anyone who could find me on Facebook.
the pubQuote:
Originally Posted by baldrick
Wechat is the replacement app of choice with everyone I know.
In fact everyone's been using it for ages.
Whatsapp is, like, so yesterday.
Deal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobcock
:rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dillinger
Green owed.
I don't know anybody using WeChat outside of ChinaQuote:
Originally Posted by Koojo
Because you can't make calls on Whatsapp.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobcock
No-one installed Whatsapp for calls. Unless they're a bit thick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Little ChuchokBecause you can't make calls on Whatsapp.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobcock
I know loads.Quote:
Originally Posted by PerotaI don't know anybody using WeChat outside of ChinaQuote:
Originally Posted by Koojo
But that's the thing isn't it, whatever you use, all your friends have got to be using it as well.
15 billions for some silly app,
Facebook has too much money and little sense,
definitely another Internet 2.0 bubble,
In Korea Kakao (or whatever it's called) is very popular!
I've got it but never set it up or done anything with it.
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Originally Posted by Koojo
I don't think whatsapp was mainly bought for the messaging system , I would think facebook would be rubbing their hands with glee in anticipation of being able to tie phone numbers to people profiles - and it was only 4 billion in cash - with the rest being facebook sharesQuote:
Some users of the popular Chinese microblogging platform Sina Weibo say they believe WhatsApp is "clearly an outdated product" with an "ugly and simplistic interface." It's not just that WhatsApp experienced a 210-minute outage on Feb. 23. Chinese also have a better option at their fingertips: WeChat, or Weixin in Chinese, the mobile messaging app that Chinese Internet behemoth Tencent launched in 2011. Compared with WeChat, which had an estimated 313 million users by December, WhatsApp is "totally not as fun and user-friendly," wrote one poster on Weibo.
The Daily Dot - Tor is building an anonymous instant messengerQuote:
Tor, the team behind the world’s leading online anonymity service, is developing a new anonymous instant messenger client, according to documents produced at the Tor 2014 Winter Developers Meeting in Reykjavík, Iceland.
The Tor Instant Messaging Bundle (TIMB) is set to work with the open-source InstantBird messenger client in experimental builds released to the public by March 31, 2014. The developers aim to build in encrypted off-the-record chatting and then bundle the client with the general Tor Launcher in the following months.
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Originally Posted by Butterfly
Another way to get 500 millions telephone numbers in one time ?
Feck that:Quote:
Originally Posted by stickmansucksQuote:
Originally Posted by Butterfly
Another way to get 500 millions telephone numbers in one time ?
Imagine putting an ad in each one of those?Quote:
On June 13, 2013, WhatsApp announced that they had reached their new daily record by processing 27 billion messages.