{"id":56389,"date":"2013-11-27T00:40:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T22:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=56389"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:00:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:00:30","slug":"samsung-chaton-sms-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/samsung-chaton-sms-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung ChatON messenger for Android adds SMS support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung&#8217;s <a title=\"Samsung's ChatON messaging app reaches 100 million users\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/samsungs-chaton-messaging-app-reaches-100-million-users\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ChatON<\/a> app for <a title=\"Android news on Softonic\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> gets a little more useful today as the company has added SMS and MMS support. ChatON is Samsung&#8217;s universal messaging app previously only found on Samsung devices, but has been released on <a title=\"ChatON for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/chaton.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> and <a title=\"ChatON for iOS\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/chaton\/id486344680\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56397\" title=\"Samsung ChatON for Android\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/11\/Samsung-ChatON-for-Android.png\" alt=\"Samsung ChatON for Android\" width=\"568\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/11\/Samsung-ChatON-for-Android.png 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/11\/Samsung-ChatON-for-Android-256x160.png 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While Facebook recently <a title=\"Facebook redesigns Messenger for Android and iOS, removes SMS functionality\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebook-redesigns-messenger-for-android-and-ios-removes-sms-functionality\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">removed SMS<\/a> functionality, <a title=\"Google Hangouts with SMS available to download\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/google-hangouts-with-sms-available-to-download\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google<\/a> and now Samsung are adding the feature in an attempt to get more users onto their messaging services. ChatON is up against some stiff competition against <a title=\"Download WhatsApp for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/whatsapp-android.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WhatsApp<\/a>, <a title=\"Download Google Hangouts for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/hangouts.en.softonic.com\/androidhttp:\/\/hangouts.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Hangouts<\/a>, <a title=\"Facebook Messenger for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook-messenger.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook Messenger<\/a>, and others. SMS and MMS are handy features to have, but they may not be compelling enough to woo users from their other messaging apps.<\/p>\n<p>To check out ChatON yourself, you can head over to the download link below. You&#8217;ll need an Android 2.2 device or higher to install the app.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download <a title=\"Download ChatON for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/chaton.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ChatON for Android<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/microsoft-promises-to-fix-skype\">Microsoft promises to fix Skype<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/line-messenger-300-million-users\">LINE messaging app reaches 300 million users<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/rumor-instagram-working-on-private-messaging-to-compete-with-snapchat\">Rumor: Instagram working on private messaging to compete with Snapchat<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung&#8217;s ChatON app for Android gets a little more useful today as the company has added SMS and MMS support. ChatON is Samsung&#8217;s universal messaging app previously only found on Samsung devices, but has been released on Android and iOS. While Facebook recently removed SMS functionality, Google and now Samsung are adding the feature in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/samsung-chaton-sms-support\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Samsung ChatON messenger for Android adds SMS support&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":56397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2699],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-56389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionchaton"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331743,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56389\/revisions\/331743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56389"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=56389"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=56389"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=56389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}