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Truecaller partners with Microsoft, app now available for Windows 8.1 Lumia phone

truecallerlogoTruecaller comes to Windows phone. The Swedish company recently announced on its blog that it had linked up with Microsoft to bring Truecaller live Caller ID for the Truecaller Lumia users who have upgraded to the latest Windows Phone 8.1. Thus, Truecaller claims to be the 1st app to bring a live Caller ID functionality to the Windows Phone 8 platform.

Now, when Truecaller users use a 3G or WiFi connection, live Caller ID will identify numbers from all over the world, even if it is beyond what is written in the user’s contact books. Not only will Truecaller show the names of incoming calls that are not in your phonebook, but it will also notify you if one of those calls is a spam call reported by the 85-million user Truecaller Community.

Truecaller has also announced a special promotion offer till Oct. 30.  When Windows Phone 8 Lumia users install or upgrade to Truecaller version 4.2, they will get 30 days of free Premium.

Founded in 2009 and based in Stockholm, Sweden, Truecaller claims to be the world’s largest verified mobile phone community. Truecaller is available on the Web & as an app for the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian S60, Series 40, & Windows Phone.

Truecaller makes your mobile environment smarter by allowing you to connect with who you want, when you want. Truecaller enables you to expand your contact list and reach people you want to find; helps you more easily identify who is calling your cell phone; and protects your mobile identity from unwanted spammers.

Together with people from all over the world, we reinvent the way people get in touch & contact each other by creating a crowdsourced global phone community that fits in your pocket.

 

Image Credit: Truecaller

 

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Microsoft’s Skype Qik – new entrant in the messaging app space

The old Qik died some months ago, welcome to its re-birth. Microsoft has just released messaging app, Skype Qik, in a move to garner whatever little space is left in the increasingly crowded messaging space.

It was created from the technology Skype Technologies acquired through the purchase of Qik in 2011. The ne service allows users to exchange video messages between individuals or within a group. The earlier Qik app offered a mobile-based live video-sharing Website & 2-way video conferencing that allowed users to stream live video from their cell phones to the internet.

new video messaging appSo does Snapchat need worry about Skype Qik? Online reports suggest that this is still a “watered down” version of the former, though there are a couple of features in Microsoft’s latest baby that may give it a slight edge. One of them is the ability to send pre-recorded videos. Now, that’s something that many messaging app lack. The other plus point to Skype Qik is the neat manner in which it organizes the Contacts.

Setting up Skype Qik is easy. You need to key in your mobile number so it can pull from your contacts. To record a video clip, you just tap the neon pink button once to start & again to stop, & then send it to your friends. You may choose to do this manually, to a single friend or a group, or use your Contacts page for mass forwards. Not only can users create groups easily from the contacts on their phones, & send messages to them privately.

Another feature that could propel this new messaging app up the ladder of popularity is the fact that it allows you to keep your chats in shape by deleting messages whenever you want – they’ll be removed from everyone else’s phone too. Once a message is 2 weeks old, it disappears.

Skype Qik has the ability to record 42 seconds videos or if you are not in the mood, even a 5 sec one. These Qik Fliks has been described by Skype as “GIFs you record yourself”. Like GIFs, stickers & memes, the idea is that you’ll store these in order to send them quickly, whenever required.

You may click here to download Skype Qik on your Android device.

You may click here to download Skype Qik on your Windows device.

You may click here to download Skype Qik on your iOS device.

 

Image Credit: Skype Qik

 

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