Samsung Teases new app, ChatON,Their Cross-Platform Messaging App

I never could understand the need for NEW Cross-Platform messaging applications when we already have so many. AIM and Yahoo! to name a few of the original big guys, there are others out there too. Apparently that isn’t good enough for Samsung or for consumers. Samsung is scheduled to make an official announcement of their latest creation called ChatON at IFA. The new service allows for group chats, Multimedia sharing and animated messages. Take a look at their teaser video of the upcoming service –

ChatON is supposed to be available for ALL smartphone devices out on the market, but we know how nicely Apple and Blackberry can play with a new application that works with Android too. I am hoping for the best from this new service, but I don’t know if it will take off like they want it to. I am really not in the mood to sign up for another chat service and have to find all my friends again. What do you guys think? Can ChatON take the world by storm and become the next big service?