SEOUL - Samsung ChatOn service first launched in 2011 as one of the efforts of manufacturing smartphones from the city of Seoul is to compete in messaging services controlled by the BBM and iMessage, reports Slashgear page.
ChatOn launched in 120 countries and has supported 62 languages. Users can send photos, video and voice messages, and share contacts, calendars and other content on the service. But unfortunately, ChatOn apparently unable to compete. Today, Samsung announced about its plans to terminate the service ChatOn in all areas, except the United States on February 1, 2015. ChatOn will be discontinued in the US market in the first quarter of 2015, but the exact date has not been announced.
The reason for the closure of serviceability ChatOn is changing market conditions. According to Samsung, there are about 100 million users based ChatOn user. The amount is based on the number of smartphones with the preinstalled ChatOn service