{"id":219954,"date":"2017-07-17T08:36:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T06:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=219954"},"modified":"2017-07-17T08:38:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T06:38:36","slug":"amazon-building-mobile-messaging-app-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/219954-amazon-building-mobile-messaging-app-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon building mobile messaging app &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has asked customers what type of features they would like in a mobile messaging service,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftvnews.com\/amazon-possibly-working-on-new-stand-alone-messaging-app-called-anytime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AFTVNews reported<\/a><\/strong>. The questions also included a name for a new messaging service: Anytime.<\/p>\n<p>Based on screenshots Amazon clients provided, the report stated that Anytime by Amazon looks to be a full-feature social platform, and not just a messaging service.<\/p>\n<p>A respondent told the publication that the survey implied Anytime was almost ready to be rolled out.<\/p>\n<p>It promises the following features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Everyone is already on it<\/li>\n<li>Not linked to phone numbers, reach contacts using their names<\/li>\n<li>Works on desktop, iPhone, and Android<\/li>\n<li>Voice and video calls<\/li>\n<li>Group chats with @mentions, photo sharing, and\u00a0video chat<\/li>\n<li>GIFs, stickers, and emoji<\/li>\n<li>Filters for photos and videos<\/li>\n<li>Competitive games<\/li>\n<li>Location sharing, listen to music together, split a bill<\/li>\n<li>Chat with businesses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Anytime-by-Amazon-promo-image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-219970\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Anytime-by-Amazon-promo-image-640x360.png\" alt=\"Anytime by Amazon promo image\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Anytime-by-Amazon-promo-image-640x360.png 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Anytime-by-Amazon-promo-image-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Anytime-by-Amazon-promo-image.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Anytime-by-Amazon-feature-list.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-219968\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Anytime-by-Amazon-feature-list-640x430.png\" alt=\"Anytime by Amazon feature list\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Anytime-by-Amazon-feature-list-640x430.png 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Anytime-by-Amazon-feature-list-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Anytime-by-Amazon-feature-list-596x400.png 596w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Anytime-by-Amazon-feature-list.png 745w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now ready:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/218842-amazon-still-looking-at-opening-south-african-data-centre.html\">Amazon still looking at opening South African data centre<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has asked customers what type of features they would like in a mobile messaging service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":152321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[723,44610],"class_list":["post-219954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-amazon","tag-anytime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220000,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219954\/revisions\/220000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}