{"id":3857,"date":"2014-01-30T10:05:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T02:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=3857"},"modified":"2014-01-30T10:28:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T02:28:12","slug":"messaging-app-cant-keep-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2014\/01\/30\/messaging-app-cant-keep-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"A messaging app that can&#8217;t keep a secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One-to-one chatting is already the norm, but what if you want to maintain the privacy of your conversations and keep things just between you and your chat mate? Babble Messenger, a locally developed mobile chat application makes this possible with a &#8220;secret messaging&#8221; feature.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With Babble Messenger\u2019s secret messaging feature, you can send text and photos to a friend and watch it disappear forever within the span of ten seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Created by Voyager Innovations, Inc., a\u00a0 wholly owned subsidiary of Smart Communications, Inc., Babble Messenger also features many chat rooms which allows you to &#8220;meet&#8221; people of the same pursuits as yours.<\/p>\n<p>The group messaging feature, which can accommodate up to 30 users, allows you to contact everyone at once for updates, whereabouts, party photos, and the like.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Babble-Messenger-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3858\" alt=\"Babble Messenger 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Babble-Messenger-2.jpg\" width=\"507\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Babble-Messenger-2.jpg 507w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Babble-Messenger-2-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words are sometimes not enough, so Babble Messenger offers its users a collection of fun, quirky and creatively designed stickers with characters that express a wide range of emotions outside the usual hi\u2019s and hello\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s already a given that Pinoys love to chat\u2014we are, after all, the so-called \u2018texting capital of the world\u2019,\u201d said Benjie Fernandez, Chief Operating Officer at Voyager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBabble Messenger hopes to answer to many Filipinos\u2019 insatiable appetite to talk and socialize, whether it\u2019s with their significant other, their group or friends, or with other chatters they randomly meet online,\u201d Fernandez added.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from chats, users can also send multimedia content such as photos, videos, and voice messages to their friends through Babble Messenger. Fernandez said they will be building up more features in the coming months to meet the demand by local users.<\/p>\n<p>Available on Android and iOS smartphones, Babble Messenger offers unlimited chatting fun to all mobile users here and abroad. The service is offered for free with no data charges to users of SmartNet, the free mobile portal of Smart, while standard data charges apply for subscribers of other networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babble Messenger, a new mobile chat application developed by Filipinos, officially launches in the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,9],"tags":[1235,500,1236,525],"class_list":["post-3857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","category-ios","category-apps","tag-babble-messenger","tag-mobile-messaging-application","tag-voyager","tag-voyager-innovations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}