Hike is the latest free messaging app from Bharti India and Japanese company Softbank, which has been developed seamlessly with the perfect gear and ammo for the smartphone users. Free Messaging apps were plenty on the respective application stores of the smartphones but Whatsapp had the monopoly until a few days ago but the scenario is expected to change greatly.

Whatsapp had only the free IM service, meaning you could talk to only people having Whatsapp and this only worked when you have a working data connection. That was its greatest limitation but no problem for Hike users. This application is built for the Indian demographics but the Hike to Hike IM service will work all over the world.

It is different from the other messaging services by allowing you to communicate from Hike to SMS too. Every month you have 100 free messages from Hike to any other mobile. This still uses data connectivity. The cherry on top of the cream is the SMS function of the application. Earn free messages  that you can send to every phone without any data connection available. Refer your friends and earn balance that you can redeem for messages or free messages too.

Connecting with Twitter and Facebook will allow you to earn more freebies. Why pay for messages when you can use the #1 application on all platforms, iOS, Android, Windows and Symbian for free.

(AW- Anil)