NEW MESSAGING APP MXIT LAUNCHED IN INDIA

Mxit, South Africa’s giant mobile messaging app has been officially launched in India. South Africa’s cricketing icon and former Indian Cricket team coach Gary Kirsten is Mxit India’s Brand Ambassador. You get the usual images sharing, group chat with up to 50 users across platforms, apart from the text chat. It is also data light allowing users with even the most basic 2G connection.
It would be especially attractive for businesses and NGOs as Mxit utilises the tools already available to the majority of Indian employers and workers, says Mxit. It available for Java, Nokia, iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows phone platforms.
It supports more than 8,000 different feature phones, smartphones and tablets, says the company. It is currently available in English and Hindi, but it would get support for 10 Indian languages (Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Assamese and Oriya) in the next 6 months.