BlackBerry Messenger vs WhatsApp

Facilitated communication users, Nokia Indonesia today launched Break Free, a program that wants to free mobile users from the conventional ways in the chat.

Through this program, combined with unlimited Internet package from Nokia, Nokia mobile phone users can enjoy unlimited data services, including chat, e-mail, browsing, and download.

Unlimited Internet program is a simple sound. However, Nokia's mission actually is not that simple. In it, the giant Finnish mobile phone vendor to offer rivals for BlackBerry Messenger: WhatsApp.

WhatsApp not the application of instant messaging (IM) made by Nokia. He is a mobile messenger application that can run on multiple platforms, including BlackBerry OS, IOS, Android, and Nokia phones based Symbian60.

As with the BlackBerry Messenger, WhatsApp using 3G access, or Wi-Fi that can send and receive messages, images, voice notes, video messaging, and even the location of Ovi Maps, as easy as using SMS.

However, unlike WhatsApp Messenger or any number of IM applications that exist today. WhatsApp utilize customer number as the username, not your e-mail. So, if you have a cellular phone number, either Telkomsel, XL, Indosat, and 3 (Tri), you can enjoy this application.

Apparently, Nokia's ambition to steal market share BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) is not kidding. When compared with the fuel, of course WhatsApp that can also run on Android, BlackBerry, and iPhone has a wider segment. For, forward this application will replace the function of SMS.

"We want to show the world do not have any restrictions in communicating, both in terms of devices, operators, and platform," said Andrea Facchini, marketing director at Nokia Indonesia, in Jakarta, Friday, April 8, 2011.

As part of the Break Free, Nokia also announced the launch of the purchase of premium content services from Ovi Store through its cooperation with Telkomsel. Through this service, Nokia users can enjoy premium content by utilizing the prepaid or postpaid accounts they are.

Prepaid premium content comes in many variants with relatively affordable prices, ranging from Rp3.000 for premium themes, Rp 5,000 for Birds Angry, Angry Birds Seasons, Farm Frenzy, Real Football Manager 2010, and EA games Premium, and Rp10. 000 applications for personal Wi-Fi, like JoikuSpot Premium and high-definition games from game developers such as Gameloft and EA.