Although for many the Mobile World Congress has known little, the truth is that it has had a good amount of news, some of them in the field of applications, as is the case of Joyn This is a tool that the large telephone companies in Spain have developed to fight against WhatsApp and the bleeding that taInternet raffles and free messaging applications are causing to the service oftext messages or SMS, with the economic costs that this entails
Several details of this new service were already known, as it has been in development for several months. It is an instant communication tool based on the RCS-e standard, or whatever is itself, a system with some minimum and common controls required to be able to be applied by any company , in order to be inserted in any terminal, without depending on the telephone network in which it operates, nor on the brand of the terminal. In this way, it faces one of the strengths of WhatsApp: its compatibility with all current platforms However, this new communication system, which they have called Joyn, has other advantageson the famous social network of free instant messaging.
Without a doubt, the best point that it has in its favor is network security through which the information shared between users would circulate, since depends on the companies themselves Therefore, one would expect that no failures and crashes of the system, as was the case with WhatsApp, by security problems However, keep in mind that companies are the ones who regulate the networks on which this service circulates , so we will have to wait to find out how far they can limit the service, and the security they offer
Regarding the handling of the application, it must be said that it works similarly to WhatsApp as seen in thepromotional videos circulating on YouTube, and demonstrations seen on the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.We remind you that Movistar, Orange and Vodafone are the companies that are developing Joyn, but this is last one that has already presented the application to society It is still in ftesting phase or beta phase , but users with mobiles Android (with version 2.3 or Gingerbread) of this company can already download this app for free from the Android Market
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As you already did WhatsApp, the application Joyn scans the contact book of the user to find out who have this service installed. Thus, through the logo of the new application, it is possible to get in touch with them through different means. One of them is the chat, which works like all current social networks, being able to send free instant messages to a person or to a groupHowever, here another point in favor of Joyn comes into play, and that is that her courier service has confirmation of reading Something that differentiates it from WhatsApp, since its double check or double confirmation does not necessarily mean that the interlocutor has read the message, only that he has received it In addition, it has agood variety of smileys to insert into messages.
Another amazing feature of this new service is the ability to exchange files Although WhatsApp has the option to share photos, videos, addresses, business cards and sounds, Joyn is not far behind, offering to exchange all types of files (including text documents) up to 15 MB weight.And what is even better, the possibility to exchange them during a call In this way you can share a video or photo of what is happening while you have the phone conversation Of course, it seems that the calls continue being billed through the contracted voice rate with each company, without the possibility of sending the sound over the Internet, as they already do Skype , Tango, Viber”¦ In short, a tool quite interesting whose arrival is scheduled for the summer months of this year We will have to wait and see the control of the companies and the final possibilities of Joyn
