Sunday, December 21, 2014

Here WhichApp, the Italian answer to WhatsApp – The Republic

Rome – The race to compete with WhatsApp is enriched by another chat, this time all Italian. It’s called WhichApp, a name not too different from the rival, and allows you to do the same things the application owned by Facebook and also something more, such as simultaneous translation of messages. The team working on the project consists of seven people, average age 34 years. The app has also been included by Grata Research, a US analyst firm, in the interactive map that monitors and reports the chat the most important in the world.

After Indoona – the app developed by Tiscali – with WhichApp our country try again gnawing giant WhatsApp, w hich has exceeded 600 million active users per month. The chat is free and has been released on the Apple Store in August 2014, but it is also available on the Play Store, for devices running Android. The application allows you to send text, audio, video and photos without showing a status of “online”, the date and the last access time (as do other chat). E ‘can also take advantage of the mode’ Ghost ‘, which automatically deletes messages sent, after a few seconds of reading (as does Snapchat, the app popular among the young). And even chat with new people using the application thanks to the ‘Search’ integrated.

The trump card is the intelligent translator: the sending of the message automatically translates it into the language of the recipient (and vice versa). Supported languages, in addition to Italian, are Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese. The entire infrastructure is protected by certificates Symantec Norton Secured, the market leader in cryptography. In addition to the bonus of the simultaneous translation of messages, the app is careful to privacy: When a user registers is assigned a ‘Pin’ that can be shared instead of the phone number, keeping this secret. The system of checkmarks – who recently infuriated users WhatsApp, for the double blue tick – is also on WhichApp but with only two modes: the yellow check mark indicates that the message was sent, the green one that was delivered smartphone the recipient.

Most of the users WhichApp, 91%, are Italian but the remaining 9% is distributed over different countries of the world (the United States, England, Russia, France, Germany, Spain and even China). “The project – explains Lodadio – has been achieved so far with the help of the company ACS and some close friends who believed in. There are institutional lenders or incubators. The fund raising in Italy difficult for a project like this our, reluctantly, have to look abroad rather than to the beautiful country. “

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