Viber, a WhatsApp-like app to make free calls with phone contacts, has an Android version released. The app came out last year for iOS and was very popular. Viber is free and gets its revenue from ads.
Viber is available now from the Android Market, while the version for iOS already came out last year. Viber scans in the contact list of the smartphone to other users of the app and displays them. Then can free with which contacts to receive calls. The app works via voip and is free; the company earns money through ads. On the basis of uploaded private data of customers that ads tailored to the user.
The release of an Android version for an app such as Viber an important milestone. Because Viber with existing contacts works, will current users of the app used more often as more people have the app installed. Viber is not the first with such an app on Android: Scydo came this spring, with an Android version.
Because Viber voip works, it is not for anyone to recommend such a service over 3g. Many new subscriptions have in addition, a hard data limit. Many new subscriptions of KPN, that Tuesday will be announced by september 5, to be sold, the upload speed is 100kbps. That is hardly enough to be able to voipen.
