Samsung second half will push message service South Korea consider SMS free

C114 Beijing time June 9 Morning News (Zhang Yuehong) to revenue ranked the world's second largest mobile phone manufacturers Samsung Electronics, plans to push the second half of the year on its smartphone platform messaging services to enhance mobile software performance, and Apple imessage competition.　　At the 2011 Global Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple officially released the--imessage of instant messaging services. Apple imessage supports a variety of iOS devices such as the iphone, ipad and ipod touch to instantly send text, photos, videos, contacts, and more, according to C114.　　IMessage support WiFi and 3G network, support new message pop-up, users can also receive the desktop push imessage new message during the game. Younghee Lee, senior vice president of Samsung Electronics, said in an interview: "The message service will first be embedded in our smartphone, the second half in South Korea, will also be in the future of Android devices to provide this service, but the details are not finalized."　　Lee declined to say whether the service was free. Samsung has struggled to improve its hardware performance over the past few years, with industry critics thinking Samsung is weak in software, especially in smartphones.　　Samsung and Apple are powerful rivals in smartphones, but Apple is also a major customer of Samsung components, and the two companies have recently been embroiled in a lawsuit over smartphone design and telecoms technology patents. "We think both software and hardware are important," Lee said.　　"to boost its software capabilities, Lee revealed that Samsung was recruiting staff to set up a special working group to develop software, but she declined to give details." The news service market has become increasingly competitive, and for Samsung, it is a difficult mountain to conquer. In addition to competing with Apple and Rim, Samsung will also face strong competition in the home market, where Kakao Talk, a free messaging service, launched last year with 15 million users and 3 million users in Japan and the US, Kakao　　Talk can be downloaded free of charge at various device terminals. "We are confident that we will be a market strength company and that our application is different from other competitor's messaging tools and that it can work on a variety of operating platforms, including Apple iOS and Android," said Kakao Talk, director of public relations, park Yong-hu. BlackBerry users can use the app by the end of June. "In South Korea, telecoms operators have been plagued by free mobile communications tools that use data transmission to communicate, especially in the short message business, in addition to Kakao Talk, in the market, and WhatsApp, the Korean Communications Commission KCC even considered waiving SMS fees, Of course, this has been the general dissatisfaction of operators.