Hands-on with Voxer: more than just another iOS, Android messaging app

There’s no shortage of messaging apps that take advantage of your smartphone’s data plan. Apple’s iMessage platform allows the instant exchange of messages, images, and video (albeit to other supported Apple devices). Google uses Google Voice for text messages, but it doesn’t have a first-party utility for freely exchanging media. Samsung’s cross-platform app ChatON seems to fill that void for Android. And while you can send a plethora of multimedia types using ChatON, Voxer’s simpler implementation seems to be ruling the roost. Voxer is an ad-free, cross-platform messaging app for iOS and Android. Playing the role of the modern-day walkie-talkie, it allows snippets of audio, text, and images to be sent surprisingly easily. Read the full story at ARS Technica.