Globaltel Media, Inc. is offering a pre-release version of their new texting chat app for PCs to mobiles dubbed Cherple. The service is free to the computer user while the mobile phone carriers text rates or plan applies.
Cherple allows two-way text
communication between online computers and mobile wireless cellular
devices. Cherple will officially be launched at the 2009 Consumer
Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Robert Sanchez, president and CEO of GTM, says Cherple was soft
launched with key partners in November and already claims more than 2
million users.
The pre-release version of Cherple can be run directly from http://cherple.com.
Registration is requested but not required. To initiate a conversation,
the online user enters a username and the destination phone number into
the Cherple application. Within seconds a two-way "chat" is initiated
between the online user and a U.S.-based mobile cellular phone.
In upcoming weeks, the application also will be available as a free
download for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh computers. A version that
supports MySpace personal web pages via widget integration will also be
available soon. Future releases will include versions for Linux
computers and will allow integration into Facebook pages.
The pre-release
version of Cherple is currently limited to texting U.S. mobile wireless
cellular phones. Cherple follows the Mobile Marketing Association's permission-based
guidelines and is opt-in / opt-out compliant. Standard text messaging
rates apply to the cell phone user, but there is no cost to the on-line
user who initiates the conversation.
GTM's technology is also available for white-label licensing to
businesses, government organizations and non-profit agencies. For more
on Globaltel Media, visit www.globaltelmedia.com.