Samsung releases 'ChatON', bringing their style of BBM to Android

BlackBerry Messenger is one of the hottest messaging services on any smartphone. They did something right when they created it. It is a feature that many other smartphone owners have been longing for. I personally don’t see the point since we have SMS and GChat. That doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be other options.

Today, Samsung released their chat service happily named ChatON. It does offer a users a unique way to communicate. You can create animated messages, send group messages, pictures, videos, audio, location info, contacts and calendars. The service is currently only available to Android, but Samsung has plans in the works to release it to Blackberry and iOS. Giving it a true cross-platform ability.

1) ChatON supports many platforms and devices. Users can chat freely through ChatON.
– Currently, ChatON supports Android, bada, Samsung feature phones, and it will support iOS, and Blackberry OS soon.
2) ChatON provides multiple ways to make your communication richer.
– 1:1 Chat, group chat, broadcasts, animation messages, pictures, videos, audio, location info, contacts, calendar.
3) Using ChatON, create your own unique animated message by drawing.
4) ChatON provides group management features for easy group chats.
5) ChatON provides an interaction rank which tells you how often you chat with your buddies
6) In every chat room, you can easily see all sent images and videos in a trunk
7) Got something to say to your buddies? Use Buddies say

Seems cool, but I am not sold yet. According to the market comments the app is available but Samsung is dropping the ball on activations. Could be due to server overload, or some one messed up. Either way, it is not a good way to launch a new service that you hope takes a hold in the mobile ecosystem.