Is iMessage coming to Android?

Is Apple caving and bringing one of its key apps to Android? Recent rumours suggest that Apple will be announcing this piece of “news” at WWDC, which starts on Monday. MacDailyNews cites sources “familiar with the company’s thinking” about this supposed launch. If Apple does decide to bring iMessage to Android, it can be seen as the company’s response to Google introducing its new Allo messenger to both Android and iOS. Apple currently has Apple Music, Move to iOS, and Beats Pill apps available on Android. We’re not sure if Apple will plan to bring its secure and simple iMessage app across the ecosystem pond, especially one key app such as this. But we have a couple of days until we find out. And if they do, the question is will Android users want to use yet another messaging app in the sea of many.

Source: MacDailyNews | Via: MacRumors

Samsung Unveils ChatON 2.0 Instant Messenger in 200 countries

Samsung's announced ChatON 2.0, the next version of the popular global communication service that connects all phone users into a single community.

Now available in over 200 countries in more than 60 languages, ChatON provides easy instant messaging and group chatting in multiple formats—images, video, voice, contacts—to make communication simple, intuitive and fun. The upgraded service works on multiple connected devices—phones, tablets, connected cameras, and any web browser.

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The Apple Beat: iOS 5 grows up, raises the bar even higher

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Monday's WWDC Keynote was such a flurry of announcements that it was all to easy to miss the magnitude of the revelations for current iOS users. Apple clearly put the user experience front and centre and aside from the usual performance and functionality enhancements we've come to expect from an iOS update, there are a number of upcoming features that stood out.

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Apple's iMessage vs. BlackBerry's BBM - Fight!

The fine folks at  CrackBerry.com and The iPhone Blog put the beta of Apple's upcomng iMessage (from iOS 5) against BlackBerry's BBM. The video above shows how both interfaces look and act as well as a simple back and forth test on both messaging platform. iMessage is faster in these tests, but consider that there are far fewer users running iMessage (which is available only as a developer me beta right now) than BBM. Still, one can see that Apple thought this over very well and anyone who has been waiting for this sort of almost realtime messaging platform on iOS should be really excited. Consider too that while BBM is for BlackBerry smartphones (not the PlayBook, yet). iMessage will work on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

Source: Crackberry.com