Have you heard the latest buzz in mobile social communications? The recent 5.1 upgrade is still fresh in the minds of consumers but WeChat, the world’s fastest growing social app for smartphone users has come out with the WeChat 5.2 upgrade, inviting everyone to up the ante of their social scenes. With the country brimming with all kinds of social activities such as  music festivals, food fairs, new clubs, sporting events, and pop-up markets, this upgrade could not have come at a better time.

The Six Exciting New Features of WeChat 5.2

Menu Bar

Smartphone users can easily appreciate having social apps that suit their habits. WeChat 5.2 compartmentalized its features into three sections: Chats, Discover, and Contacts, resulting to a clearer interface. While Chats lets you continue with your current conversations, new exchanges with friends can be started through Contacts. The Discover tab lets you use the rest of your favorite, fun features. You can be taken to the Moments feed or other options including Scan QR Code, Shake, People Nearby, Drift Bottle, Games, and Sticker Shop with a single tap.

Friend Radar

WeChat’s Friend Radar certainly provides a fresher meaning to the words “finding friends”. You can literally identify other users within the vicinity whether you’re in La Union, Cebu, or wherever. The option to add these new-found friends to your contact list is given with one tap of their images. This clearly eliminates the usual fuss in the exchange of information details while allowing you to continue chatting as you please.  Friend Radar accessed through the Menu Bar > Add Contacts takes care of digital friend-scanning for you when you decide to connect with the same people face-to-face.

Real-Time Location-Sharing

You can keep all your friends in the loop for the all-important weekend activity you’ve been planning. Through WeChat’s Real-Time Location-Sharing feature, no one will ever be left behind, physically or in thought. Invite your friends to share their whereabouts and help them navigate their way on the WeChat map, with an integrated walkie-talkie session to boot. Simply open a chat > + > Locations > Real-time Location > to view one another’s maps.

Group Chat Photo Album

Having problems scrolling through endless chats to find uploaded photos? Let WeChat’s Group Chat Photo Album feature help you by automatically arranging  photos shared in group chats by date.They can be stored in one location and can be accessed through one tap of the Photo Album icon.

Universal Search

There is absolutely no need to worry when you inadvertently forget an important date or name in a chat conversation. The Universal Search feature of WeChat quickly brings you back to any message or contact by typing into the search field within the Chats tab. Forgetting details happens to the best you know, so it is always advantageous to have some back-up when memory fails.

Contact List Customization

The very active social lifestyle of people today has resulted to contact lists that build up quickly like wildfire. Manage your networks through WeChat’s Contact List Customization feature and put order into your social life. It also provides an option to add photos, addresses, and business cards to your friends’ profiles.

Aside from these 6 features mentioned above, WeChat 5.2 for Android comes with enhanced versions of its staple features. Sticker Shop offers more animated stickers to capture your experiential responses; Group Chat Mention Notifications will notify you when your name is mentioned in a Group Chat; Video and Audio Chats boast of boosted quality; and the LinkedIn Account in WeChat lets you grow your professional circle. All these, as complemented with the new, easy-to-use interface, mean more possibilities for enhancing your social life. To upgrade now and for the latest updates, visit www.wechat.com.

About WeChat

WeChat envisions and innovates new ways for people to connect, communicate and share. A mobile social communication app designed for smartphone users, WeChat is the world’s fastest growing social app with over 100 million registered accounts internationally.

WeChat empowers users in fun and dynamic ways by bringing together messaging, social communication and gaming in one seamless, interactive experience, with comprehensive privacy and security settings that can be tailored as needed.

WeChat is an all-in-one app that enables users to add friends with several innovative features. These include highly convenient and reliable QR code scanning, phonebook and location-based connection services such as “Hold Together”, “People Nearby” and “Shake.” The platform facilitates social interaction with real-time “Walkie Talkie,” “Voice Call,” and “Video Call.” Supported on data networks and Wi-Fi, WeChat makes it easy to stay connected with friends anywhere, anytime. Users can choose to communicate and share photos one-on-one, or within their closed social network through “Moments”. The popular WeChat Sticker Shop has a variety of fun animated emoticons to express any emotion.  Also, with a host of addictive WeChat Games, users can play and challenge their friends on the move, share scores and even find competitors nearby.

WeChat is available free for download on Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Symbian and Windows operating systems.
Learn more about WeChat and download the app at www.wechat.com
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My Say

In these modern times, we can only benefit from apps that can put a semblance of order in our very busy social lives. The WeChat 5.2 upgrade for Android and iOS, through its features, offers several ways to go about it. Clearly, we can expect a lot more to be introduced in the coming days and months.

Information contained in the above post has been brought to you in partnership with WeChat. However, all opinions are mine.