Samsung Launches Bixby Text Call in India

Samsung launches Bixby Text Call in India, Now Have a Text-Chat-Like Communication with Your Callers Using Bixby

Samsung, India’s most trusted smartphone and consumer electronics brand, has announced the launch of Bixby Text Call feature in India for a select few models*.

With Bixby Text Call, you can let Bixby answer and respond to your incoming calls. Bixby’s automated voice will answer your incoming calls. You can then simply start typing with the keyboard or select a quick response, and Bixby will read your messages to the caller. Once a Bixby Text Call is over, you can even look back on your conversations if needed.

How to set up Bixby Text Call

If your phone supports Bixby Text Call, you can enable the feature by doing the following:

1. Open the Phone app, tap on More Options (the three vertical dots), and then tap on Settings.

2. Tap on Bixby text call and then turn on the feature in the Bixby text call window. If you have not installed language package already, you will be prompted to download a language package. Tap Download and then click on Continue to go to the Galaxy Store where you can Install the language package.

3. Once you have turned on Bixby text call, you can further edit Bixby text call settings such as language and voice. You can also add new quick responses or customize existing ones for Bixby text calls.

How to use Bixby Text Call

Note that Bixby Text call can be used only during incoming calls. Although you will not be able to hear the conversation, you can read the messages during the call. The caller will only hear an automated voice.

1. Once you have turned on the feature, you can see Bixby text call when you receive a call. Tap on that. On the next screen, swipe up on the green coloured icon to initiate a Bixby text call.

2. Bixby will let the caller know you are using an automated voice. Bixby will also ask the caller who they are and why they are calling.

3. Once the caller begins speaking, you will see their response transcribed on the screen.

4. You can reply to the caller by selecting a quick response at the bottom of the screen, or typing what you would like to say. Tap Send. Bixby will then read your response to the caller.

5. If you would like to stop using Bixby text call and switch to a voice call instead, tap Voice call at the top of the screen.

6. Tap End call at the top of the screen to end the call.

How to view Bixby text call conversation logs

Voice conversation logs generated during a Bixby text call are stored in the Phone app. To view logs of past conversations, follow the steps below.

1. Open the Phone app and tap the Recents tab.

2. Calls handled using Bixby text call feature will have a speech bubble icon next to them. Select a call with this icon, and then tap the Info icon (the “i”)

3. In the next screen, tap on the speech bubble icon next to the call to view the full call transcript.

4. You can also delete the transcript by tapping Delete on the top right corner.

*Models that support Bixby Text Call as on Aug 2023: Fold5/Flip5, Fold4/Flip4, Fold3/Flip3, Fold2/Flip/Flip 5G/Fold 5G, S23/S23+/S23 Ultra, S22/S22+/S22 Ultra, S21/S21+/S231 Ultra, S20/S20+/S20 Ultra, A34, A54, A52s 5G, A82 5G, A53 5G, A33 5G, S20 FE, Note 20/ Note 20+, A71 5G, A51 5G

Note: Only English conversations are supported

Telegram Launches Infinite Reactions and Emoji Statuses Feature on Their Platform to Enhance the User Chat Experience

The latest update comes with a new login flow, improved username links and other additional features

Telegram Messenger in its latest update has released Infinite Reactions, Emoji Statuses, and much more to enhance the user chat experience. Telegram's previous update has revolutionized the usage of emojis by adding an open platform for creating custom animated emojis. With the latest update, Telegram aims to provide users with ways to engage these new emoticons while chatting where they can express their feelings better.

Infinite Reactions

All users now have access to dozens of reactions – including those that were previously only available with Telegram Premium. Telegram has accommodated all the new emojis and expanded the reaction panel. The reactions which users prefer using frequently will now be shown at the top. Additionally, users with a premium subscription, can now choose reactions from an infinite selection of custom emojis and use 3 reactions per message. The changes are currently available in groups and 1-on-1 chats. Also, group admins can control whether custom reactions may be used in their groups or not.

Emoji Statuses With this latest update, premium users can add an animated emoji status, displayed next to their name (in place of the Premium Badge of a user in the chat list), and let people know how they are feeling or doing currently. Users can set 7 standard statuses that change the colour to match different Telegram themes or choose from an infinite number of custom emojis.

Improved Login Flow

Users who log in and out frequently can now receive login codes through their email address or using Sign in with Apple or Sign in with Google. Signing up or logging in to Telegram on iOS is now even more streamlined and easy along with the new interfaces and fun animations with which Android users are already familiar.

New Username Links

To date, all @usernames on Telegram have their own t.me/username links that make it easy for users to share their public profile, group or channel anywhere on the internet. The latest update allows users to have a new unique link format username – username.t.me – to emphasize their name.

Prioritize Downloads on Android

Now Android users can enjoy additional download settings – users can now press and hold any items in the list to reorder them and change their priority. Further, media and files that are actively downloading can be managed in the 'Downloads' tab of Search or by tapping the Downloads Android icon that appears in the user’s chat list.

Android Goodies

In this new update, Android users can now enjoy new smooth animations added for opening, closing, and changing media on Android. Users on Android 13 or newer can choose a thematic Telegram icon that will automatically match the phone's dark mode settings and accent color.

Telegram Launches Interactive Emoji and New Chat Themes as Key Features in Its Latest Update

This is the second major update for Telegram app within a span of one month to enhance user experience with high utility driven features

• Telegram introduces Interactive emoji for enhanced user chat experience
• Multiple new themes for individual chat backgrounds have also been introduced
• Users can now see detailed Read receipt in Telegram Groups
• Telegram is offering to record the audio and video sessions from live streaming feature

National, 21 September, 2021: Telegram Messenger launched a slew of new features in its latest monthly update to make user chat experience more intriguing than ever before. Telegram has added the option to place different Chat themes with different people, and a completely new way to experience the emoji sharing on one-on-one individual chats called Interactive Emoji. The app has introduced Read receipt feature for Telegram Private Groups, along with an option to record live stream video chats and audio session that can be shared later with others, as well.

Chat Themes

Telegram offers many features to organize chats and customize their appearance such as Chat Folders, Animated Backgrounds, etc. In this update, coordination and decoration come together with new themes for individual chats.

The app is now offerings 8 new themes that users can apply to specific private chats (one-to-one chats). Each of the new themes showcases colourful gradient message bubbles, beautifully animated backgrounds and unique background patterns.

Interactive Emoji

Telegram introduced a new way of sharing emotion in real time. Users need to simply send a single emoji to any private chats, and then tap on the animated emoji to unleash a full-screen effect. If both the parties involved in the one-on-one chat have the chat window open, the animations and vibrations play simultaneously on the devices for both of them. This makes the overall chat experience much more connected, expressive and close to the people.

Read Receipts in Small Groups

Both chat themes and interactive emoji currently only work in private chats. But this update also includes a big change for Telegram Groups.

Group messages are marked as read (✓✓) as soon as one other member sees them. In small groups, users can now also select a message you sent to see which group members have read it.

In order to protect users' privacy, read receipts in groups are only stored for 7 days after the message was sent.

Record Live Streams and Video Chats

Telegram hosts millions of communities that can create live events for unlimited viewers. Admins are now allowed to record Live Streams and Video Chats to publish them for those who missed the live version.

Admins can start a recording right from the Live Stream or Video Chat menu – with options to record Video and Audio or Only Audio. To record video, they need to choose an orientation for the final video file, Portrait or Landscape. Once the recording gets finished, or end the broadcast, the file is instantly uploaded to the Saved Messages window. Telegram offers free and unlimited encrypted cloud storage to its users where they store the same for long, re-download it anytime from any device as per their requirement. While recording, a red dot appears next to the title of the broadcast.

On this occasion, CEO and Founder Pavel Durov writes on his Telegram Channel Blog, “Another major Telegram update is out now after having been finally approved by Apple. It is packed with unique features that expand the boundaries of what a messaging app can do.

This new version of Telegram also contains an important upgrade that will allow our apps to work without interruption. Until now, Telegram used 32-bit values for the identifiers of users and channels. Due to its fast growth, Telegram had been quickly approaching the maximum number of 32-bit IDs, which is about 2.1 billion.

That's why for the last 12 months we've been rebuilding nearly all of our apps, storage architecture and scripts to migrate to the 64-bit range (so we can expand to other galaxies without any issues). The latest update is critical to let new users sign up for Telegram and existing users keep creating channels and groups”

For more information, please visit to Telegram’s latest blog:
https://telegram.org/blog/chat-themes-interactive-emoji-read-receipts

Three Indian’s Launch Faceless Chat the World’s First App That Turns Facebook or WhatsApp Into an Anonymous Social Network

Many wonder what others may really think of them, or their opinions or if someone likes us. The new Faceless Chat app allows these questions to be answered in a safe, anonymous, and fun away, among many other possibilities

Being able to socialize anonymously or having the option to find out what friends may really think about a question, opinion or a post without having to expose their identities are options that many social networking enthusiasts find incredibly interesting. Now, thanks to the new Android app Faceless Chat both of these options and much more are possible. Faceless Chat works with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and Snap Chat to deliver links to anonymous posts, where people can respond with their identity protected. To make things even better as soon as the links expire they are gone forever, without Faceless Chat even having the option to recover them, regardless of the reason. Not surprisingly, these features are making Faceless Chat a popular new social networking choice among a growing number of users who value honesty and being able to stay anonymous.

“Our mission is to create technologies that bring people even more closer using social media. The most common feature in every social network out there is a story. More than 1.6 Billion Stories are uploaded daily on all social networks and we want to make them more interactive, creative and significantly more better,” commented Sulaiman Mmd, Co-Founder and CEO of Faceless Chat.

“That’s what Faceless Chat is offering and it is obviously something that is in big demand. Many people obviously don’t enjoy the idea that their identity is attached to social networking chats and can be recovered forever. We are providing a way around that kind of headache that is ethical, well-designed, easy to use, and fun.”

Faceless Chat take a unique approach to social networking by building its interactions around a simple link, where other social networking apps surround things like photos (for Instagram), disappearing photos (Snapchat), and other more traditional approaches. Since Faceless Chat uses shareable links, it allows users to share anything with just a link, giving them the ability to turn their WhatsApp status or Snapchat stories into interactive things where online friends can have anonymous exchanges with them exploring all kinds of interesting, fun, or eye-opening subjects.

Friends who see the Faceless Chat stories can swipe up and check their posts on a web browser, as well as be able to directly interact with the user anonymously. Popular choices for posts include things like ‘Questions and Answers’, secret crushes, surprising confessions, and much more. Since things are kept anonymous and the posts vanish forever, it encourages honesty, humor, and shock value to all be celebrated.

Many people are pointing towards Faceless Chat to be the future of social networking for its ease of use, for it being able to be incorporated on other popular platforms like WhatsApp and Snapchat, and, most of all, it’s dedication to keeping things completely anonymous.

So far the feedback from users has been incredibly positive across the board, something which is helping the app’s use spread due to all of the enthusiastic user experiences.

The new app is updated regularly for the best possible user experience.

For more information be sure to visit https://facelesschat.me. Download the Googe Play store here.

Club Factory Launches Chat Feature on Platform; Empowers Sellers to Build Direct Contact with Customers

• Consumers can explore product customization and directly interact with sellers


• Club Factory has also successfully on-boarded 10,000 local sellers in India

Leading e-commerce player Club Factory has announced the launch of an Instant Messaging Feature on its App – to allow sellers to communicate with customers on Club Factory directly. The new initiative is further aimed to empower local sellers and manufacturers in India. Using the chat feature, sellers can directly take order details via the messaging tool and cater to the customization requirements of their users. Almost 70% sellers on the Club Factory platform have started using this feature to interact and build their customer base directly. These include sellers in Women's Clothing, Mobiles & Accessories & Home categories.

In addition to its zero-commission model for sellers, Club Factory is not charging sellers for any marketing promotions. Club Factory is promoting qualified sellers by giving them increased exposure, in-depth Big Data trends analysis, end-to-end support and co-marketing campaigns to drive sales.

Talking on the announcement, Mr. Vincent Lou, Founder and CEO, Club Factory said, “Club Factory is the only e-commerce player in India that does not charge any commission fees, passing on cost-benefit to the users.  We are also happy to include a chat feature as part of our bouquet of offerings. The option allows customers to directly interact with sellers to discuss any product-related query and place special requests for their orders.

Unlike some of the other e-commerce platforms, we believe that sellers need to be empowered to own their consumers and end-users. These initiatives make us a comprehensive online-marketplace facilitator, building to an era of FAC - Flipkart, Amazon and Club Factory to lead the future of e-commerce in India.”

Since its launch in 2016, Club Factory has been working to provide a level-playing field to sellers. It is the only e-commerce player in India that does not charge any commission fee from sellers, allowing them to achieve 20-30 percent cost savings when selling on the Club Factory platform. In addition to that, Club Factory also does not charge any marketing or promotion fee to sellers. Club Factory undertakes promotion of seller stores and designs banners for specific categories on its own accord. Sellers get increased visibility and reach for discounts offered to consumers.

“We have not only exempted sellers from paying any commission charges, but also made it cheaper to sell on our platform with the help of our lower rate of payment gateway and other logistics charges. Our philosophy of not charging any commission from the sellers also enables us to ensure smooth communication between sellers and buyers, which would otherwise be impossible. Any commission fee charged from sellers might hinder them from ethically engaging with buyers as they would try to bypass the platform and offer to directly sell to the buyers, to recover the commission fee charges. Therefore, it won't be possible to safeguard the consumer's interest, avoid fraud transactions and ensure a better customer experience if e-commerce players are charging commission fees while also allowing sellers to talk to consumers directly. This initiative from Club Factory is not merely a marketing campaign, but a proof of our dedication to building an ecosystem where SMEs can own their customers. Our goal is to provide a fair marketplace where both the sellers and buyers can benefit,” Vincent added.

Club Factory announced its new scale-up strategy with plans to on-board over 10,000 sellers in 2019. Club Factory has already met the target of on-boarding 10K sellers who joined the platform since the program’s launch. The company opened its Recruitment Programme in India recently for sellers offering products in the lifestyle, fashion, accessories, gadgets and electronics and home categories. Currently, over 70% of the orders on Club Factory are executed by Indian SMEs with a strong focus on products locally made in India.

Club Factory was the world’s most downloaded shopping app on the Google Play Store in the month of September and October 2019, according to Sensor Tower’s Store Intelligence platform. Club Factory has also surpassed Snapdeal to become the 3rd largest shopping app (in terms of MAUs) in India since June 2019 after retaining #1 rank in Google Play Shopping App category (according to data analytics platform App Annie).

Healthcare Platform Curofy launches Chat feature to help Doctors discuss Real-Time Cases

Curofy, a leading healthcare networking application for doctors has launched ‘Curofy Chat’ feature. The new feature offers a fast and simple messaging service where doctors can chat with his/her fellow doctors and also can share /answer medical cases at the same time. Not only this, one can chat with hospital members and even discuss cases in group.

Curofy is a mobile app that facilitates interaction between doctors from various fields of medicine. With this platform, doctors can quickly locate other physicians, call them, take the second opinion, and seek advice on patient cases through collaboration. It’s an innovative platform for doctors to discover a solution for all their medical prerequisites with just a single click.

The main aim behind the chat feature is to provide a platform for doctors for immediate diagnosis. A survey was conducted on around 4,00,000 doctors where more than 85 % doctors were in favour that Curofy has become a problem-solving platform for them especially in the rural areas where the doctor count is less. Also, with the help of this, doctors can communicate at a faster way using the new innovation in the medical world.



Curofy Chat helps to discuss clinical cases in real time, create private chat room for doctors, connect without sharing the contact, one can form the professional multi-speciality groups and also robust communication. Discussion about problems in such groups can help to reduce the time of consultation and treatment. When doctor is in doubt about any case, he/she can easily get second opinion from his/her choice of doctor in the private chat as well.

Speaking about the feature, Mr. Pawan Gupta, Co-Founder, Curofy, "The chat feature transforms Curofy from being a knowledge sharing platform to an immediate diagnosis platform. This truly has the potential of disrupting doctors' day to day life in a good way. This is one of our biggest launch since our inception.”

Keeping into consideration, the demand and needs of doctors, the chat feature is acting as a new gadget for the members. Not like the other social application, Curofy Chat is specifically dedicated for the medical professional who wants to be in touch with more people and wants to learn more.

Curofy is a doctors’ networking platform which creates a spam-free and secure environment to communicate with each other. With more than 4,00,000 doctors on its platform, Curofy helps to solve more than 400 cases every day. With 4,00,000 cases solved so far, Curofy is indeed the biggest digital repository of patient case in the country. Now, with this ‘Chat’ feature, they are going to help the doctors with better and faster communication.