Task 4 : Information System and Revolution

 Information System and Revolution

What is Kakao talk?

Kakao talk is another revolution of information system in nowadays. Kakao talk is one of the latest free mobile messenger application for smartphones. It is now becoming more popular because of they are now improving their features, services and also functions to make it more interesting and easier  for people to use.

Kakao talk history

Kakao talk was released on March 18, 2010 by Kakao Corp. Kakao has reached 57 million users registered on August, 2012. Averages of 24 million users are estimated to be using the app on daily basis and over 3.4 billion messages are sent every day. Kakao Corp. was named a “Top Developer” on Google’s Android Market.

Kakao Talk was also chosen as No.1 Free SMS App by Cnet. On April 2013, also released a beta version of Kakao Talk PC. Kakao talk is also chosen more than 90 million users worldwide.

Kakao talk features

•      Free call

    Kakao talk allow users to use free call with friends in real-time

                         

•      Group call

Kakao enables 3 to 5 friends to participate in a group call at the same time. Not only have that, Kakao talk also provided voice filter such as “Talking Tom” and “Talking Ben” so we can experience more colorful and fun call session.

                              

•       Plus Friend

With this features, users can get various contents and benefits by adding their favorite brand, star, and media as their friends.

                        

•     Supports 12 different languages

Kakao Talk also available in many languages such as English, Japanese, Thai, Spanish, Indonesian, German, Italian, French, Turkish, Portuguese, Chinese and also Korean.

                           

•      Privacy Protection with Lock

By using Kakao Talk, you can protect your personal information in the setting Lock. Whenever you activate Kakao Talk, you are asked to type in a password.

        

•      Group chatting

Kakao Talk allows users to chat not only one-to-one chats but also group chats as many friends that you want.

•      Multimedia sharing

Users can share various multimedia while chatting and calling. Users can share photo, video, voice messages and also contact. It is fast and easy to use.

•        Cute emoticons

-         These are the examples of the emoticons by Kakao Talk.