If your Apps in your Android phone is not setup to automatically update, its time to hit up your Google Play and check the latest version of KakaoTalk, version 4.0 is now out with an improve UI with an objective to attain uniform user experience across all OS.
The following features are the highlights of the upgrade:
– Upgraded KakaoTalk UI/UX with a focus on service usability, accessibility to hidden functions, and emphasis on brand identity
– A makeover in design to lead the quickly evolving mobile OS UI and design trends
– Users across different OS to enjoy a more uniform user experience
– Newly transformed KakaoTalk BI with improved readability and esthetics element to be adopted.
“We focused on enhancing usability, discoverability of option menus and convenience through the subtle, but impactful changes. We hope this update will help users discover all our features in a quicker and more convenient manner,” said Tim Jang, Kakao Philippines Director.
With the new version, you get to experience animated emoticons to be displayed on a clear background. In older version, animated emoticons were only available in chat bubbles with a white background, and static stickers on a clear background.
The discovery of function menus was enhanced, by bringing out menus that were previously accessed through the Android hard key buttons to the screen area. In the chat rooms, ‘notification,’ ‘invite,’ ‘leave’ and ‘setting’ options that were previously accessed through the hard key menu were replicated to a soft key menu on the upper right hand of the screen. In the ‘chats’ tab, a floating icon has been added so that users don’t have to scroll to the end of the chatroom list to create a new chat room. In the ‘find’ tab, various methods for finding friends, such as ‘ID Search,’ ‘QR code,’ ‘Shake’ and ‘Invite’ are now exposed on the top of the screen to ease the process of finding a friend.
Other changes include a predominantly yellow design and new layouts for VoiceTalk, wherein participating members are now more visible and clearly displayed.
KakaoTalk was lunched in the Philippines a month ago. It became number one downloaded apps three weeks later and was incorporated in Globe’s GoUnli30 together with other IM like Line, Viber, WeChat and FB Messenger.
But if you like to enjoy KakatoTalk only with your Globe Prepaid, you can try KakaoTalk20 data plan, users can avail of total access to all KakaoTalk services, including unlimited text messages, free voice calls, photo sharing and more by simply texting KakaoTalk20 to 8888 or dial *143# on your phone.
