KIK Messenger: A cross-platform messaging app launched for Symbian

After providing services to iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone, Kik Interactive brings its cross-platform messaging experience to Nokia Symbian smartphones. Kik for Symbian has remained under beta testing with a limited users for a month and a week and has been launched globally for public access. It’s free at Nokia Store.

Today in an announcement, the company thanked its beta testers crediting their valuable feedback to make Kik Messenger publicly available while accepting the global existence of the Symbian Platform that need to be served with great apps – Yes we can understand it’s a big step for Kik Interactive to bring its product(s) to global rather than only focusing on North America.

We think the millions of Symbian users around the world deserve pretty, responsive, reliable apps, just like any other mobile platform. In that spirit, we built Kik to be the fastest and most beautiful messenger available for Symbian today.

A special ‘thank-you’ goes out to our beta users, who not only gave us valuable feedback but also freely shared their enthusiasm for Symbian. Your spirit is infectious.

Features:

Kik Messenger currently supports following features on Symbian

• Sent, delivered and received receipts as well as notifications indicating when someone in the conversation is typing a response
• Cross-platform messaging between Symbian, iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 devices
• Ability to send photos in a conversation
• Option of scanning contacts for friends already on Kik
• Group texting and ability to add friends to conversations with two clicks

Supported Devices:

Kik Messenger supports Symbian^3 and later devices including Symbian Anna and Symbian Belle. S60v5 and S60v3 are not supported.

Download:

Download Kik Messenger from Nokia Store. It’s free

Kik Messenger is available for other platforms including iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7 and BlackBerry. To download Kik Messenger on your device you can visit: http://m.kik.com.

[source: KIK]