Line goes alive with calls to corpuscle phones, landlines
Line, the Japan-based mega messaging app, said Monday that it's giving its admirers in eight countries admission to a new artefact alleged "Line Call," a account that lets bodies punch landlines and corpuscle phones from the appliance for a fee.
Line Call, meant to be an affordable another to prepaid adaptable service, is actuality appear as allotment of the latest adaptation of the company's Android application, and will be accessible anon in the iOS version. The account is accessible to associates with a registered buzz number, and the aggregation promises that its app-to-phone calling account provides "clear, uninterrupted, high-quality" calls.
The new account expands on Line's articulation communications offerings, which let bodies accomplish chargeless VoIP and video calls to added appliance users. Line Call is offered as a 30-day cable account or on a pay-as-you-go basis. Calls to acreage and adaptable curve in the US and China are priced at 2 cents per minute.
"The adeptness to accomplish calls anon to adaptable and landline phones has been one of our best requested features," Line Euro-Americas CEO Jeanie Han said in a statement.
The account makes Line alike added of a blackmail to Microsoft-owned Skype, and comes as messaging adversary WhatsApp readies the absolution of articulation communications options for its 465 actor alive users. The messaging application, which is actuality purchased by Facebook for $19 billion, expects to absolution its VoIP appearance in the added division of this year.
Unlike WhatsApp, Line does not address alive users, but the aggregation has about angled its registered user abject from 200 actor bodies in backward July 2013 to 370 actor bodies in mid-February.
Line Call is currently accessible to appliance users in Japan, United States, Mexico, Peru, Columbia, Thailand, Philippines, and Spain.
Line, the Japan-based mega messaging app, said Monday that it's giving its admirers in eight countries admission to a new artefact alleged "Line Call," a account that lets bodies punch landlines and corpuscle phones from the appliance for a fee.
Line Call, meant to be an affordable another to prepaid adaptable service, is actuality appear as allotment of the latest adaptation of the company's Android application, and will be accessible anon in the iOS version. The account is accessible to associates with a registered buzz number, and the aggregation promises that its app-to-phone calling account provides "clear, uninterrupted, high-quality" calls.
The new account expands on Line's articulation communications offerings, which let bodies accomplish chargeless VoIP and video calls to added appliance users. Line Call is offered as a 30-day cable account or on a pay-as-you-go basis. Calls to acreage and adaptable curve in the US and China are priced at 2 cents per minute.
"The adeptness to accomplish calls anon to adaptable and landline phones has been one of our best requested features," Line Euro-Americas CEO Jeanie Han said in a statement.
The account makes Line alike added of a blackmail to Microsoft-owned Skype, and comes as messaging adversary WhatsApp readies the absolution of articulation communications options for its 465 actor alive users. The messaging application, which is actuality purchased by Facebook for $19 billion, expects to absolution its VoIP appearance in the added division of this year.
Unlike WhatsApp, Line does not address alive users, but the aggregation has about angled its registered user abject from 200 actor bodies in backward July 2013 to 370 actor bodies in mid-February.
Line Call is currently accessible to appliance users in Japan, United States, Mexico, Peru, Columbia, Thailand, Philippines, and Spain.
