WECHAT AND WHATSAPP A COMPARATIVE STUDY
WECHAT MESSENGER
INTRODUCTION
In android and windows smart phones instant messaging has
become the need of every people to communicate with friends and family.
WhatsApp and Wechat both are widely popular and famous
applications of instant messaging as they connect millions of people across the world.
These two applications acquire the common features like simple
contact and group contact but still there are some big differences among their features.
WeChat is a mobile text and voice messaging communication
service developed by Tencent in China, first released in January 2011.
The app is available on Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows
Phone, and Symbian platforms.
WeChat provides multimedia communication with text
messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, broadcast (one-tomany) messaging, photo/video sharing, location sharing, and contact information exchange.
FEATURES :
Live Chat
Members in the Live Chat will hear
Group Chat
you immediately. Only one person can talk at a time. The indicator light will turn red if you press the button while others are speaking, and you won't be able to talk.
Chat History Backup
Back up your chat history and
Video Chat
Video Call is available on WeChat
restore it to your new device. (Note: Chat History is only stored for 7 days.)
versions 4.2 and later, allowing you to talk to your friends face to face.
Moments
Voice Chat
One can record his voice and send it over to any friend in his contact.
You can share individual photos or batches of photos in "Moments", and send them to your friends. These photos will then be displayed in your friends' photo albums
Web Wechat
Get WeChat on your PC! Simply
Emoticons
log into the profile through your PC and continue your conversations. While a back-up is the conversation is created on your phone, all records are deleted from your system
Shake
Look Around
WeChat is not restricted to your network of friends but also helps you in expanding the network. Using the Look Around feature, you can look at the active WeChat users in a particular area and connect with them
Users can just activate the feature and proceed to shake their phone. As they do that, if theres anyone else anywhere in the world shaking their phones at that instant, their names will pop up on your list! Connect and start chatting!
Drift Bottle
You can throw bottles into the sea with voice or test message (once the drift bottle feature is activated) and someone from anywhere in the world will pick it! You can pick others bottles too! How amazing is that!
Facebook Connect
WeChat, unlike Whatsapp is not
just another instant-messaging app. The app supports social network integration and you can link WeChat to your Facebook profiles too.
Expansions
Five months after launching in the US, in addition to
operations in South America, Europe, Australia and its native Asia, Tencents newest focus is Africa, specifically the continents biggest economy.
WHATSAPP MESSENGER
What is WhatsApp?
WhatsApp Messenger is a proprietary, cross-platform instant
messaging application for smartphones.
In addition to text messaging, users can send each other
images, video, and audio media messages.
The client software is available for Android, BlackBerry OS,
BlackBerry 10, iOS, Series 40, Symbian (S60), and Windows Phone.
WhatsApp was handling ten billion messages per day as of
August 2012, growing from two billion in April 2012 and one billion the previous October
The Company
WhatsApp Inc. was founded in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum,
both veterans of Yahoo! and is based in Santa Clara, California.
The company is a tight compact group of 11-50 people. WhatsApp, has secured $8 million in financing from Sequoia Capital,
and possibly other investors. This funding keeps the company afloat despite high running costs (data storage, servers etc.)
Technical Aspects
WhatsApp uses Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
(XMPP).
o Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). o It is a communications protocol for message-oriented
middleware based on XML (Extensible Markup Language).
o The protocol was originally named Jabber, it is used for near real-
time, instant messaging (IM), presence information, and contact list maintenance.
o It is also used for video, file transfer and gaming.
Upon installation, it creates a user account using one's phone number
as username (Jabber ID: [phone number]@s.whatsapp.net).
WhatsApp software automatically compares all the phone numbers
from the device's address book with its central database of WhatsApp users to automatically add contacts to the user's WhatsApp contact list.
Features
Send WhatsApp conversation history to someone Change the WhatsApp chat wallpaper
Save the photos youve received Create shortcuts to WhatsApp conversations Choose a WhatsApp profile picture
Send much more than just text. Change your WhatsApp status Broadcast a WhatsApp message to many contacts Group chats
Where does the money come from? WhatsApp Revenues
WhatsApp does not spend a penny on advertising, again saving
costs. They rely on word of mouth publicity. We can say WhatsApp has killed BB market in India.
Currently WhatsApp has over 100 million subscribers, and suppose
80 million are non-iOS users, they will earn a cool $160 million easily.
But in India however even after completion of one year they are
extending some months limit for free usage every time.
Reliance Communications has announced its exclusive partnership
with WhatsApp in India.
The cost of downloading WhatsApp on iTunes is only 99 cents, and
on other platforms is available for free. But there is a catch,
WhatsApp is free only for the first year. Second year onwards there
is a fee for $1.99 for a period of 3 years, and this is where they are going to make money.
WhatsApps website is simple. Which means they do not spend
here to maintain it.
WeChat is better than WhatsApp?
1. In WhatsaApp you can add only 30 members in a group. But in WeChat there is no restriction for group chat and you can add as many members you like. 2. There is video call feature in WeChat like Skype. So you don't need to install separate software for video calling. 3. You can send voice message through this client. It is the first software to have this feature. 4. It has more pre-loaded emoticons than WhatsApp. Many prefer to add emoticons in the end of their message and those people will love this feature. You can convert any picture into emoticons which make the WeChat emoticon feature special.
5. You can login in WeChat using your Facebook profile. So you don't need to waste your time by registering a new profile. In WhatsApp you need to create a separate profile.
6. You can share picture and videos using WeChat not only to your friend but to the whole world using WeChat client. There are already 300 million WeChat users. Its just like posting you photos in public.
7. Using WeChat you can connect anyone in the world. You can connect to anyone who is online in WeChat client. This feature is called as 'Look Around' in WeChat. 8. WeChat has another excellent feature called Drift Bottle. It means you should record your voice in a bottle and throw it in the sea. Someone in the WeChat will pick that and listen to your voice. Also you can pick some others bottle in the sea and listen to them.
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