I’m sure you already got Viber, WhatsApp, Voxer, Yahoo! Messenger, Skype and Tango. But take a little while and try this Korean-made mobile messenger as they invade the Philippines.
NHN Corporation, a Korean company that owns search portal Naver.com and Online gaming Hangame.com, has come to the Philippines to introduce their latest products and services. A new mobile messenger called LINE is a FREE social media service.
NHN Corporation has a 1.7B USD annual sales, with strong presence in countries like Japan, USA, and China, Singapore, Vietnam and HQ is Korea with almost 9,000 employees globally. Mr. Hyun-bin Kang, Director of LINE Business Office shared that Japan is NHN’s biggest overseas branch and that they are excited to open the market for the Philippines. Naver.com ranks number 5 globally competing with Google and Yahoo!
Within 19 months since it launch in Summer of 2011, LINE mobile messger has already reached 110M in January this year.
LINE mobile messenger offers free SMS, group chat, voice call, other features like sharing photos, video, audio messages and location.
They feature Stickers, the revenue generating part of the app, they have bunch of fun communication stickers. Other apps related to LINE includes, Line Card, Line Camera, Line Band which allows you to create your own group that can accomodate up to 500 users.
The B2B side of Line aside from selling stickers (price starts at USD1.99), for example in Thailand which as already have 13M users of LINE is they have premium subscriber like Thai Airways. The airline has reached 3M subscribers in LINE alone.
LINE came prepared for its launch, the mobile messenger is supports multidevice, it has version for both tablet and PC, it has also versions for Android, iOS, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Windows and MAC users.
I know people who have Viber. Personally, I’ve only used Skype and YM. Right now, I am not sure if this device will be useful to me but it still sounds interesting.
Yes, kahit sa PC pwede..
Line seems to be pretty interesting. Does this work on all smart phones?
I just knew about this “Line Ph” gonna be dlding it right away! 🙂
This is really interesting..
But with all the perks it offers, I’m wondering what’s the catch on all this.
Well first time I heard about this one and sounds interesting. Something to invade the Philippine market again.
First time I’ve heard about this but as I always say, the more options, the better.
First time to read about it too. And since it’s available in Windows Phone, it’s worth a try.
So basically a new and green-tinted competitor to Viber? 🙂 I like how a lot of mobile development are taking the web-based route; I personally think going web-based is the way to go.
Yeah, it’s my first time hearing this too. It’s very interesting though.
That’s a good news. More and more free services are coming up.
I am familiar with viper but this one is new to me. Ma try na.
First time to hear Line. We’re using kakao talk. I think they have same function, free sms etc.
Line Is Free , I hope it will lasts
I just heard about Line just here.. excited to try this one…
This one is worth trying aside from whattsapp and Viber.
Hi Christin, tama ka nga.. Pero they just brought it here officially just now. 😉
Thanks for dropping by.
Huh, Line in the Philippines is new? I don’t think so.. we have been using it nearly two years now.