Best messenger app?

[uzee]

So which is the best messenger in your opinion?

My first was WhatsApp and love it, i'm having to use Viber too because half friends use Viber.

The main difference between the 2 i saw that Viber does calls.

However i fell the user interface is alot easier in Whatsapp, and would be perfect if it had the call function.

Whats you opinion?

P.S. - please vote too for a quick overview reference

 

[gtbarry]

Personal issues with viber aside, more people that I know - especially in South America - use whatsapp.

 

[uzee]

Personal issues with viber aside, more people that I know - especially in South America - use whatsapp.

what issues were u faced with viber?

 

[gtbarry]

- quality of calls sucks
- pressing "exit" twice does NOT exit the app - merely sleeps it
- quality of calls sucks
- can't cancel account - merely deactivate it
- quality of calls sucks
- deactivating claims it will "delete viber from your device" and doesn't
- quality of calls sucks
- very few people I know are on it. and most of them are also on talk and/or skype and/or whatsapp
- quality of calls sucks

http://androidforums.com/android-applications/701184-viber-decides-keep-relaunching-itself.html

 

[sherlock5545]

WhatsApp all the way between these two. Viber triggers Audiut2 wakelocks on my S3, which leaves the CPU at 200Mhz even when the screen has been off for long. Huge battery drainer.

By the way, I prefer Kik Messenger the best. Have to keep WhatsApp on because many friends still use it.

 

[gtbarry]

not only is whatsapp the majority:

WhatsApp and Google Negotiating a Rumored $1 Billion Deal, Could Be Google's Entrance Into Mobile Messaging

 

[pm5544]

WhatsApp and Google Negotiating a Rumored $1 Billion Deal, Could Be Google's Entrance Into Mobile Messaging

I don't know if that would be a good or bad thing.

 

[bluebayou]

I personally like KakaoTalk, but I hear it's flooded with koreans lol.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kakao.talk

 

[Metroid Prime]

You could try Handcent. I think that one is quite decent.

 

[nancy30]

Samsung's Chat On messenger and whatsapp are my favourite

 

[uzee]

thanks peeps

Ye i still prefer Whatsapp

I use it and want my fiancee in Pakistan to use it, problem is im sure she a normal candybar phone and not a touchscren.

I think whatsapp is compatible on certain old Nokia symbians.


hmmm