Rakuten Viber Messenger

Viber is a rapidly growing VoIP service that allows you to make voice and video calls, as well as exchange text messages in an individual or group chat. A familiar list of possibilities, right? The Skype service immediately comes to mind, but who is Viber in relation to it – a competitor or a complete analogue? In our opinion, this is a noteworthy substitute for the bulky and sometimes “brake” giant of Internet telephony, which is endowed with similar functionality and has a number of advantages, mainly regarding ease of use.

A feature of Viber is that a person uses his phone number as an identifier, which is much more convenient in terms of creating a contact database. There is simply no need to do any extra “body movements”, since any person’s smartphone already has a “notebook”, contacts from which are automatically transferred to the Viber service – contacts already using this program will be marked with the corresponding icon. Viber differs from its main competitor in the simplicity of the interface – a list with contacts and a chat window, everything is clear and as simple as possible.

So, to start using this Android program, you should follow a few simple steps – enter your phone number in a special field and wait for SMS to successfully complete the verification procedure. In order to call a person, you just need to select his name in contacts and press the voice or video call button, you can also include this subscriber in an existing group chat. Even if your counterpart does not have Viber, the program will offer to make a call in the classical way (there must be sufficient funds on the account for this) or send him a notification with an offer to install this wonderful service. Communication between users is completely free of charge – via the Internet, and here options are also possible – WiFi or 3G / 4G / EDGE.

The application also contains emoticons and stickers that are standard for communication products, allowing you to tell your interlocutor about your attitude to a particular issue without further ado, or express the whole gamut of feelings between people in love, and so on. In text format, you can type messages up to seven thousand characters long – forget about short and uninformative paid SMS. Not so long ago in Viber it became possible to shoot and instantly send to the user short video clips no longer than 30 seconds – a great opportunity to share the best moments of your life.