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Libon Open Chat takes on WhatsApp with HTML5 IM tech

2014-02-24
hello I'm the West oficina to at mobile world congress 2014 in barcelona we're taking a look at the lib on chat services brand new feature now live on is a chat app it also does your voicemail but it's got something new that it's just introduced and it's called open chat technology and what it lets you do is start doing a free IM conversation with someone who's in your phone's contacts even if they are not a fellow live on user so with a service like whatsapp which uses your phone's contact the other person needs to also be on whatsapp for you to be able to send those three messages however using this you simply send the message to the phone number you want it to arrive at and that other contact will then get sent a link which takes them to their phone or tablet's browser where there's an html5 chat window and through that they can do all the usual IM features like messages or sending pictures you can even send voice clips and location data and what that means is basically that you can talk to people who aren't using the same service for free it's pretty cool and i would like to see it spread to other services like whatsapp or maybe viber I'm the west road to see nectar at mobile world congress 2014 check out cnet com for more
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