What is Messenger and how to use them? Review of the best programs for communication on iOS and Android

Messengers are a boom of recent years. They appear in jackets in packs - one cooler than the other, and each chooses for himself the one that is more to taste.

Programs for transmitting messages and other content between users are called messages. The name of such applications came from the English language and is translated into Russian as “coherent” or “courier”. The popularity of messages today is colossal, and the owners of the most famous of them have billions of profits.

Messenger: Concept

Thanks to the Internet, we can learn about how to do our friends and relatives by sending them a short message. You do not need to call. A few years ago, we used SMS for this purpose. They were rated even cheaper than calls, but with active communication a decent amount ran. Today you can communicate completely “free”.

You need to connect a tariff with unlimited Internet and install a popular messenger

Why popular? Everything is simple, it is necessary that the person who will be sent to the person to send a message is also installed.

Important: a messenger is an application that combined some e -mail functions, SMS, online chats and other similar programs, technologies and services.

One of the most popular messages of the past was the program ICQ ("ICQ"). This program was used even before the Internet penetration into every house. Today, ICQ has fewer fans. All of them choose new, more convenient messages.

The popularity of messages

If you look into the Messedgers section at the App Story or Play Market, you can see a large list of applications for online communication. And every day this list is replenished with a new “best” application for communication at a distance.

Usually, each person has several popular local people at once. Unfortunately, there is no direct connection between such applications and for communication with a specific person you need to choose the application that is installed in him.

Important: all messages can only work when connecting to the Internet. If the user to whom you are going to send a message is not connected to the Internet, then it will be delivered to him when he becomes online.

Today, not only schoolchildren or students use messages, but also representatives of business, science and other areas of life. Even the military is developing secure programs to exchange messages between their units to accelerate communication.

In our country, the most popular messengers are: Whats App, Skype, Viber, Telegram, Line And Facebook Messenger. Also, Russians use: MTS Connect And Google Hangouts.

Whats App

At the moment, the Whats App maintenance application is the most popular among devices on Android and iOS

According to the latest data, the number of users of this messenger exceeded the number of users of the popular microblog service - Twitter. Whats App is distributed for free and everyone can install it on their gadget from the application store for its operating system.

The advantages of Whats App is a low resource consumption. He works in the background and when the message is received informs the user about this. It is also worth noting a simple and convenient interface, the ability to create chats and exchange not only messages, but also pictures, video and audio recordings.

In Western countries, Whats App has completely replaced SMS messages.

Skype

• The Skype messenger was popular even before the era of the mobile revolution. But, unlike the same ICQ, he managed to stay afloat. Skype is primarily video calls, and then everything else. The number of users of this application for communication today is 400 million people
• Skype has North European roots. This application was created by specialists from Sweden, Denmark and Estonia. In 2011, this message was redeemed by Microsoft and built into almost all of his services
• The Skype messenger managed to stay in the first places of various ratings thanks to Microsoft and its former popularity. But, this application is quite resource -consuming and many users gradually leave it in favor of other messages. Moreover, more and more of them include supporting video calls

Viber

Another very popular message in our country

• It is believed that over time he will be able to overtake Skype and even get close to Whats App. And most likely, in our country this will happen soon. Viber can be installed on the gadget working on the operating system Android, iOS, Bada, Windows Phone, Blackberryas well as for Nokia asha
• The Viber messenger has Belarusian roots and its main advantage is that it was originally developed for mobile devices. While all the same Skype was originally an application for a desktop computer. Viber developers managed to make a messenger who consumes very few resources and can quickly work in 3G and even Edge networks
• With the help of Viber, you can make calls to mobile phones and send short messages, pictures, video and audio recordings for free, and calls to stationary phones are rated cheaper than in Skype

Telegram

• This messenger is developing faster than its analogues today. It so far works only on smarts and tablets under the control iOS, Android And Windows Phone. Also, Telegram can be installed on your retop computer under the control of Windows
• The creator of Telegram is the former owner of VKontakte Pavel Durov. This messenger resembles Whats App with its simple and comfortable interface. But, the main feature of this application in the absolute security of messages and transferred data
• In Telegram, you can create channels and collect subscribers on them
• You can install this Mesher on your gadget for free. The creators of the application assure that it will always remain free and there will never be advertising in it

Line

This messenger appeared in Japan and became popular after the cellular communications due to the next earthquake failed

• Surprisingly, with such a natural cataclysm, the Internet was in every Japanese house. And the inhabitants of the Land of the Rising Sun found out the latest news about their relatives and acquaintances through the Line messenger
• This application is very popular not only in Japan, but also in neighboring countries. There are also many admirers of this message in Russia
• In Line, you can transmit messages, pictures from the screen, make calls and indicate your location. Unfortunately, it repels several children's interface from this messenger

Facebook Messenger

This messenger is implemented inside Facebook. What automatically makes users of the Facebook Messenger users.

Not so long ago, Facebook administrators closed the possibility of communication with the help of mobile gadgets inside their service without using this messenger.

MTS Connect

One of the main mobile operators of MTS created his own messenger

MTS Connect has everything you need to communicate: chats, group chats, file transfer and location, to city and mobile phones under the Internet. The main disadvantage of the Connect messenger is that MTS will tariff the implementation of calls through it from other regions and countries as roaming. Excuse me, why then do you need such a messenger?

Google Hangouts

This free messenger for chats, voice and video calls has already been preinstalled on most smartphones under the Android operating system. But, this is not the main advantage of Hangouts. The function of the ability to jointly edit documents in Google Docs and conduct webinars (group video communication) is much more important.

We will summarize

Using messages is very easy, intuitive and clear

• You need to download and install on the device the application that your friends use (better 2-3 from the top of this list). Register and find in the list of contacts to whom you want to send a message. Then everything is clear
• Thanks to the appearance of cheap smartphones on the market, the number of users of messages is growing every day. Because of this, representatives of cellular operators lose superprofits and do everything to be targeted by traffic engaged in such applications
• We will not allow them to hope to death their subscribers the way they did it a few years ago. And we will use messages for free

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