People wanted to communicate since the dawn of time. Nowadays we have a magical tool called mobile phone and now it's impossible to imagine living without one. Jongla aims to take your mobile messaging experience to another level. In upcoming weeks we'll be posting more information regarding our service without sparing any details. Please leave us a comment and let us know what you think! Jongla service was born when Jongla Oy founders realized that Internet adoption on the mobile phone will only accelerate. With all the fancy stuff we could do on our mobile devices thanks to mobile broadband Internet, we were still using primarily SMS (Short Message Service) for mobile messaging. Fast forward a few years. Almost every single smart phone is capable of sending email messages along with SMS and MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) messages. MMS was meant to be something between email and SMS, allowing you to send multimedia files. The beauty of MMS is that recipient receives the message instantly. Unfortunately MMS service was plagued with countless issues starting from being expensive, to inability to reliably send messages to recipient in a different country. Why not use email instead, you ask. Email is great, but it's not reliable and not instant. When I send you an email message, I can not be sure that you received it on your mobile device. You might have not configured your phone to "pull" new messages frequently enough, or maybe you're in a roaming area and don't want to receive a cellphone bill that will put you in a permanent shock. The only thing I can rely on is that you will receive the message when you check your email next time. In many situations it's not a problem, but you can't consider email true mobile messaging. Another issue that is present in MMS and email is maximum file size. MMS maximum file size for videos and images seems to vary depending on the device and cell phone provider, ranging from crappy to acceptable. Email is restricted by maximum file size for the email message ranging from a few megabytes to 25MB (for example in the case of Gmail). If you use Gmail you should be able to send high quality images over email with no problem, but what about video? With optics on mobile devices getting better and better every day, image and video file sizes grow almost exponentially. If you wanted to send an HD video recorded on your mobile phone to your grand mom, how would you do it? To make things worse, format war maybe over for high definition disks (hooray for Blu-Ray), but not for mobile devices. 3GP is certainly dying, but there are plenty of devices out there that still produce and consume only 3GP. If your top of the line device produces h.264 encoded HD video and you send it to a few year old device (not everybody in the world owns an iPhone or Android), the chances of the recipient being able to play it are pretty slim. Last but not least, there is expense at being able to send messages globally. Try sending MMS message to your friend abroad. It will most likely never arrive and will be obscenely expensive, considering the amount of data that got transferred. Jongla was created to overcome all these issues. It allows users to message each other absolutely for free, as long as they have mobile broadband connection. Below you will find more information on how Jongla overcomes all issues mentioned above.

Cost As long as both the sender and the recipient have mobile broadband, the service is totally free. There are no premium features or any other catches you might have to pay for down the road. Quality There are no limits on file size, amount of attachments and length of videos. Jongla can handle whatever your device can dish out. It's a perfect companion for your mobile videos. Jongla message can also contain any number of videos and pictures, so you can send everything in a single message. How cool is that? Portability When you send multimedia files using Jongla mobile service they are automatically encoded to many different formats, so no matter what device your recipient has, we'll be able to serve him a format his device can playback. Our system is totally automatic and doesn't need any actions on sender's or recipient's behalf. You can send Jongla messages using our web client from your desktop or using our mobile applications available on all major mobile platforms. The receiver only needs a mobile device capable of receiving SMS messages with a mobile browser. International messaging Jongla messages are URLs delivered via SMS. Thanks to the beauty of this simple design, our users are able to send messages anywhere in the world with confidence and for free. Delivery time Jongla messages are sent right after conversion process is done for multimedia files. In many cases it only takes a minute or so for a Jongla message to arrive on the other side of the globe. Where is the catch? You might be wondering if it's too good to be true. Jongla is able to offer this service totally for free, because we include a small ad in your messages. This means that the more you use our application the better it is for us. So don't worry and keep on sending! P.S. In our next blog post we'll go into detail regarding different clients we offer. Stay tuned and use comments to give us feedback!