About the company

Jongla Ltd is a Finnish technology company with a mission to solve the problem with existing mobile messaging. We wanted to create a seamless and customer friendly mobile messaging experience that is not limited by SMS capabilities and allows its users to send high quality multimedia messages to each other, free of charge. The company consists of a group of professionals with previous experience in telco, media and ITC sectors. With the help of our users and advertisers, we have developed a unique mobile-communication platform and service. Jongla is owned by a group of private investors, partner companies and management. Now, with the help of new investors, we are developing the mobile messaging to the next level – Instant and Group Messaging.

Jongla service in the nutshell

Jongla allows you to send unlimited amount of mobile messages to any mobile device in the world for free. Jongla messages can contain an unlimited amount of images, videos and text. In order to provide our users with the new level of mobile messaging capabilities, we built our own infrastructure that is not limited to any specific mobile device or platform. This allows us to deliver a new level of experience to mobile devices and desktops. In order to use our service, your friends don’t need to install any additional software. The only requirements are that they can receive SMS messages and have a working mobile browser. We wanted to take the best of SMS messaging and add additional killer features:

• Ability to send multiple high quality multimedia files
• No costs for sending or receiving messages, provided the user has unlimited mobile broadband
• Letting users view messages no matter what device they’re using
• Allowing users to view Jongla messages without installing any additional software

Jongla service lets you message from your preferred device. If you want to message from Facebook, you can. If you prefer to do it from your browser without installing additional software on your device, you can do so with our web client. In order to provide high quality service and cover our costs, we put a small ad that recipients see when they open Jongla messages. It’s non-intrusive and is only shown for a few seconds before your message. You can also rate ads (like/dislike), and because of that we hope to offer you relevant ads in the future. As of this date, Jongla has native applications on iPhone, Android, Windows Phone and Symbian platforms. We want to bring you the highest level of user experience that you can only get with native apps. We truly believe in our vision of creating a mobile messaging experience without boundaries for everybody in the world, and we’re delivering it one step at a time.

Mobile applications - new features

In October 2011 we released our first Windows Phone application and a new generation of Android and iOS apps. With the latest version update of Jongla service we’ve released several new features that will make the messaging more fun. Our flagship applications on Android and iPhone platform support realtime chatting with your friends (realtime chat support also coming to other native applications soon). If your friends don’t have a Jongla application installed, they will still get the message which they can view using their phone’s mobile browser. We have also overhauled the interface of already existing applications and streamlined our registration process, making our apps even easier to use. Push notifications for iPhone client is another feature that should make chatting with your friends even more accessible. This allows you to receive chat messages in real-time, even if Jongla application is closed. We currently support following platforms natively:

• Android app running 2.x branch
• iOS platform
• Windows Phone
• Nokia and Symbian devices with our Symbian client

Our applications have been downloaded thousands of times, which gives us energy to keep investing more time to make them better.

Jongla’s future looks bright

Thanks to the latest client updates, our growth in regards to new users and sent messages has exploded. Asian market especially has been a source of amazing growth for Jongla service. Company’s future looks bright, as more and more people choose to message using Jongla service. Our next release will include tight integration with social networks as well as new features for mobile apps. We’d love to hear your feedback, so connect with us on Facebook and Twitter. Happy messaging!