Enricko Lukman · · 2 min readTalkBox for BlackBerry Goes into Public Beta, Grab It Now
There’s good news for BlackBerry users as the voice messaging app TalkBox has just launched its Blackberry beta version for public use.
TalkBox is a cross-platform messenger app that allows users to send messages via voice rather than the usual texting. This move would definitely give operators another headache as TalkBox offers another voice communication option without actually calling the person through operator’s normal channel.
The Blackberry version is now available for free here, with built-in push notification. This makes chatting with TalkBox as convenient as it is with the other messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Bubbly, and of course Blackberry Messenger itself. You can also have up to nine people talking simultaneously using its group chat feature. In this competitive market, Korea’s KakaoTalk launched on Windows Phone earlier today.
It is easy to use TalkBox Blackberry as it is also compatible with Twitter and Facebook. Be mindful though that you need at least OS 5.0 to be able to use this app.
Though Blackberry is deemed to be a declining mobile OS by some experts [1], it still boasts a huge user base of 77 million users worldwide [2], and is strong in some areas such as Indonesia. So I think this is a good move by TalkBox. But it remains to be seen whether Blackberry users will migrate directly to TalkBox just because of this voice messaging feature. Here are two more screenshots of the new app in action:
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A remark made by Benjamin Joffe during Startup Arena Jakarta 2012. ↩
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Data given by RIM (NASDAQ:RIMM) managing director for South Asia, Hasting Singh, during a press conference on April 25, 2012 ↩
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