ChatON
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| Developer(s) | Samsung Electronics | ||||||||||||||
| Initial release | October 14, 2011 | ||||||||||||||
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TouchWiz Nature UX 3.0
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| Operating system | Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, bada, Windows Mobile, Web platform | ||||||||||||||
| Available in | 62 languages | ||||||||||||||
| Type | Instant messaging | ||||||||||||||
| License | Freeware | ||||||||||||||
| Website | chaton | ||||||||||||||
| Discontinued | March 2015 |
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ChatON was a global mobile communication service provided by Samsung Electronics from September 2011 to March 2015.
ChatON served more than 120 countries in 62 languages. ChatON was available on Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Windows Phone (Samsung Zone), Windows Mobile (Korea), and Bada smartphones. Additionally, a web client was offered for access to the service via web browsers. Users could invite and register buddies via Facebook and Twitter as well as share ChatON content on Facebook. Among ChatON's unique features were allowing users to create Animation messages, Broadcast to send personal notices in a group chat room, and the Trunk which stores media files shared in chats. When a user logs in ChatON, the user's buddy list is available on any connected device.