Snapchat Debuts Mobile Messaging, Movie Talk

Snapchat introduced two fresh features today that concentrate on conversations instead of ephemeral pictures and movies. Pending an update from the app store, users will soon be able to message friends and movie talk in real-time.

"Until today, we felt that Snapchat was missing an significant part of the conversation: presence. There’s nothing like knowing you have the utter attention of your friend while you’re talking," the company said in a blog post.

While you can still send self-destructing photos and movies, you can now choose to commence conversations either via text or live via movie talk. To begin, swipe right on a friend’s name to open the text-based talk screen. The app will alert you when your friend is active online and available to talk. Like photo and movie sharing, your conversation will vanish when you close the talk window.

You can also share live movie flows or begin two-way movie talks when you and a friend are both available. To share live movie, tap and hold the blue button. Your face will pop up on your friend’s screen. To display movie using your device’s rear-facing camera, haul your finger upwards to activate it. If your friend wants to join in the movie talk, he or she can tap and hold their screen to begin sending you movie. To end a call, just lift up your finger.

These fresh talking capabilities put Snapchat in competition with a number of other popular messaging apps, including WhatsApp, which Facebook acquired, WeChat, Kick, and Facebook’s own messaging app, Messenger.

The mobile messaging thrust has heated up in latest months as number of sites and apps have added talk and photo-sharing features. In December, Instagram flipped out private messaging, which lets you send photos and movies privately with up to fifteen of your friends. Twitter also updated its iOS and Android apps in December, adding the capability to direct message photos.

Facebook, however, is taking a different treatment to messaging. Last month, it announced that it will separate mobile messaging from its main app. Soon the social network will require you to download both the Facebook mobile app and its Messenger app in order to talk with friends.

Snapchat’s text and movie talk features are the app’s very first updates since it launched Stories in October. Stories let you share your Snapchats with all your friends instead of sending them to select ones. Friends can access your Stories for twenty four hours before they vanish from your account.

Check out the movie below for a look at Snapchat’s text and movie features:

Can the fashionable tech strategy of DevOps indeed bring peace inbetween developers and IT operations — and produce swifter, more reliable app creation and delivery? Also in the DevOps Challenge issue of InformationWeek: Execs charting digital business strategies can’t afford to take Internet connectivity for granted.

Snapchat Debuts Mobile Messaging, Movie Talk

Snapchat Debuts Mobile Messaging, Movie Talk

Snapchat introduced two fresh features today that concentrate on conversations instead of ephemeral pictures and movies. Pending an update from the app store, users will soon be able to message friends and movie talk in real-time.

"Until today, we felt that Snapchat was missing an significant part of the conversation: presence. There’s nothing like knowing you have the utter attention of your friend while you’re talking," the company said in a blog post.

While you can still send self-destructing photos and movies, you can now choose to embark conversations either via text or live via movie talk. To begin, swipe right on a friend’s name to open the text-based talk screen. The app will alert you when your friend is active online and available to talk. Like photo and movie sharing, your conversation will vanish when you close the talk window.

You can also share live movie flows or commence two-way movie talks when you and a friend are both available. To share live movie, tap and hold the blue button. Your face will pop up on your friend’s screen. To display movie using your device’s rear-facing camera, haul your finger upwards to activate it. If your friend wants to join in the movie talk, he or she can tap and hold their screen to begin sending you movie. To end a call, just lift up your finger.

These fresh talking capabilities put Snapchat in competition with a number of other popular messaging apps, including WhatsApp, which Facebook acquired, WeChat, Kick, and Facebook’s own messaging app, Messenger.

The mobile messaging thrust has heated up in latest months as number of sites and apps have added talk and photo-sharing features. In December, Instagram flipped out private messaging, which lets you send photos and movies privately with up to fifteen of your friends. Twitter also updated its iOS and Android apps in December, adding the capability to direct message photos.

Facebook, however, is taking a different treatment to messaging. Last month, it announced that it will separate mobile messaging from its main app. Soon the social network will require you to download both the Facebook mobile app and its Messenger app in order to talk with friends.

Snapchat’s text and movie talk features are the app’s very first updates since it launched Stories in October. Stories let you share your Snapchats with all your friends instead of sending them to select ones. Friends can access your Stories for twenty four hours before they vanish from your account.

Check out the movie below for a look at Snapchat’s text and movie features:

Can the stylish tech strategy of DevOps truly bring peace inbetween developers and IT operations — and supply quicker, more reliable app creation and delivery? Also in the DevOps Challenge issue of InformationWeek: Execs charting digital business strategies can’t afford to take Internet connectivity for granted.

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