Hike messenger, India’s first homegrown and fastest growing messaging platform have announced the launch of Hike 3.5 for Windows Phone 8.1. The update will bring Windows Phone 8.1 users a host of Hike’s most popular and much wanted features.
Commenting on this new release, Kavin Bharti Mittal, CEO and Founder, Hike Messenger, said
Our users on Windows Phones absolutely love hike. Today, Windows is our 2nd largest platform by users. We know they have been eagerly waiting for this update, which is the biggest we’ve ever released for Windows, and we’re excited to finally get it in their hands.
What’s new in Hike 3.5 for Windows Phone 8.1
Hike Now Looks Better than Ever Before – Hike 3.5 has a brand new user interface that makes navigating simpler than ever before. It has 10 brand new exciting chat themes that will allow you to set the tone of every conversation you have!
Share Files and Attachments that are up to 100 MB – Sharing will never be the same with this new update as one can send practically all formats and any number of files through hike — PDF, ZIP, APK, MP3, Audio, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc. The update also allows one to send or receive files and videos that are up to 100 MB in size!
Take Better Control of Your Social Circles – You can now form large groups of up to 500 members on hike — friends, colleagues, alumni etc. Not only this, you can even manage these groups better by having multiple administrators in each group and also the ability to mute groups and messages from your contacts so you are not disturbed if you don’t want to.
Hike’s Growth Story
- Dec 2012 – Global launch
- Feb 2013 – Messaging traffic grows 10X week on week
- April 2013 – Hit the first 5M user milestone in just 4 months of its launch | Raised $7M from BSB
- Feb 2014 – Hit the 15M user mark
- April 2014 – Received $14M fresh funding from BSB
- June 2014 – Crossed 20M user mark, launched first TVC
- July 2014 – Hit #1 rank on App stores
- August 2014 – Crossed 35M user mark, receives $65M fresh funding led by Tiger Global & BSB
- November 2014 – Launches regional stickers on hike
- January 2015 – Launched free Hike Calls
- February 2015 – Launched Cricket Scores on hike
- Aug 2015: Hike announces 20 billion messages per month and launched Hike News
- Sep 2015: Launched Group Calling with upto 100 people
Additional information
You can download the app at – http://get.hike.in For more information, please visit the Hike Blog
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