Hoiio Chat iPhone version 1.0.8
Remember the old days when mIRC was still popular among teens? For once, I was an avid user mIRC and I used it to keep in touch with my high school friends in Indonesia. We would create a room and invite everyone to come in to the room. It was fun to talk to a lot of people at the same time. Conversations are always better in groups.
Our team at Hoiio thought about bringing the awesomeness of mIRC group chat to mobile phone. The challenge that we face was more on concept than technical. We made some conceptual assumptions when we released the first version of Hoiio Chat on 8 February 2011. However, we received some valuable feedbacks (which some are already implemented) from our users to make Hoiio Chat a better app.
One of the feedback that keeps coming constantly is to implement push notification for group chat. We understand that it is important to keep the conversation “real time”. Responding to the feedback, in Hoiio Chat iPhone version 1.0.8 (and Android app version 1.0.7), we have implemented one major update: Push Notification for Group Chat.
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We coupled this feature with Smart Alert for users who don’t want to be swarmed with plenty of push notifications (especially when the group is really chatty). The smart alert will give users option to personalise the push notification when there is a new message. The options are notification to be always delivered, every 5 minutes, every 30 minutes or Never.
We hope that this will give a better experience when you use Hoiio Chat. So download Hoiio Chat now if you want to communicate in groups (App Store or Android Marketplace).
