India based chat application, Hike, soon after acquiring the Zip phone, has now launched the voice-calling facility, which is available free of charges to the Android-run phones. The voice-calling feature – enabled through the net - will make Hike a very useful app and is expected to get quite popular within a short span of time. Hike has incidentally stolen a march over Whatsapp, which toyed with the idea of introducing voice-calling feature in its application and has still to roll out one.
The free calling application has been launched over 2G, 3G and Wi-Fi across more than 200 countries. While the service at the moment will be available only for the Android-based mobiles, it will gradually be extended to iOS and Windows – hopefully within the next three months. Its voice calling feature is designed to be fairly data-efficient giving its users more calling minutes per MB of data. Hike’s Founder and the Chief Executive Officer, Kavin Bharti Mittal said: "While building free hike calls, we kept two things in mind. Firstly, India is a very cost sensitive market and as a result we've ensured that our service is extremely efficient on data. It means our users can pack in more minutes per MB when calling on hike."
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While there are a number of other messaging apps at the moment that provide free voice-calling apps, like Skype, Line and Viber, it is expected that Hike which has a user base of around 70 million, will prove quite popular in India. In fact, within a very short span of time, Hike has caught the imagination of Indians with almost 90 per cent of its users are India-based.
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Author : Syed Zafar Ahmad
Designation: Executive Editor
Bio: A freelancer with a flair for experimenting with innovative technology and electronic gadgets that could enrich the life of a modern common man, and a consultant in issues touching every-day life of a computer suave professional.
Bio: A freelancer with a flair for experimenting with innovative technology and electronic gadgets that could enrich the life of a modern common man, and a consultant in issues touching every-day life of a computer suave professional.
