Aplikasi Android Last February, KakaoTalk buried Speed Booster in its services. Thanks to this technology, send messages faster. Through an examination, KakaoTalk confident claims services faster than WhatsApp.
"We compare it with WhatsApp, WhatsApp because the most widely used in Indonesia. And we want to show the comparison in terms of speed and reliability," said Kate Sohn, Vice President of Global Business Development Corp. Cocoa when talking with detikINET KakaoTalk office.
Said to Kate, Speed Booster technology was developed specifically for users in Indonesia. Two main features, Image Relay and Engine Speed Booster, aimed at accelerating the delivery of images, files and of course the message even in the unstable network conditions, such as that experienced by most users in Aplikasi BBM Indonesia.
To prove it, KakaoTalk KakaoTalk invite detikINET compare the speed with WhatsApp. Because KakaoTalk office located in Setiabudi, South Jakarta has a very good connection signal, KakaoTalk invites detikINET region to Sabang, Central Jakarta.
Mario Nicolas, Product Manager KakaoTalk Indonesia say the place has a very dense traffic and the signal is not so good, especially at lunchtime, when detikINET and KakaoTalk visit there.
Round trip from Sabang to any Setiabudi testing has begun. Using a variety of devices, on iOS devices, Android and BlackBerry, Mario showed off KakaoTalk speed.
Using the 3G network with the same telecom operators, network conditions Harga HP Samsung up and down, KakaoTalk still leading in the delivery of the message.WhatsApp followed a few seconds after the message on KakaoTalk sent.