Viber is an app which is connecting almost everyone in the world. An estimation of aver 400 million people use this app to send photos and video messages, call and text over Wi-Fi or 3g for free. Calls to landline numbers and non-Viber can be made at low rates by the use of Viber Out. This app is available for many smartphones and platforms. Viber is optimized and compatible with Android tablets so you can simultaneously use Viber on your phone and tablet.
Your phone number is used as the identification on Viber. This app works hand in hand with the contact list in your mobile phone and it detect which contact in the list has Viber automatically. Once it has detected the contacts in your phone which has Viber, you can make a group of up to 100 participants, send texts to your friends, make free calls of high HD sound quality, sort stickers and reorder them. You can share emotions, location, photos, stickers, voice messages and video messages. Messaging is made to be fun since you can download stickers from the sticker market. Viber app also allows users to never miss a call or a message even when Viber is switched off and integrate with contact lists which are native in nature for messages and calls.
With all the benefits which come along with Viber, it is therefore important to support the Viber Desktop application on Mac and Windows. It is localized into Dutch, Czech, German, Hindi, Greek, Hebrew, Korean, Malay, Italian, Japanese, Indonesian, Catalan, Croatian, French, Slovak, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Spanish, Norwegian, Hungarian and Turkish among many other languages. The Viber app is absolutely free of charge with no advertising.
Viber is in the process to integrate its text services and voice calls with games according to a report by a journal by the name Wall Street. Viber’s chief executive Talmon Marco has in a statement said that the gaming platform will be announced this year.
Rakuten, an Ecommerce corporation bought Viber app earlier this year at a cost of $900 million and at that time it had 300 million users who were active. The brand new attempt of the Viber which is aimed at improving its quality is the venture into the gaming industry. In order to ensure that this plan is achieved, the company has had meetings with several gaming companies with an aim of discuss a hopeful future partnership. One of these companies which Viber is targeting to partner with is the Win.com which is a well-known developers of social casino games. Competitors who are out in the market to compete with Viber in messaging services have already made an incorporation of third party applications in the services they offer. A good example is Tango which has already launched a gaming platform in 2013 and made an announcement of a $25 million fund which will be used to support game developer who they have partnered with. Over the recent years, the huge aspect of the gaming industry has been Mobile gaming and this has seen more messaging service providers such as Kakao Corp, Kik interactive and Line Corp emerge with third party developers for apps.