The launcher is an important step for Kakao as its Kakao Talk business begins to take off.
That’s far better than the reception that Facebook Home got, but it remains to be seen how carriers in Korea - many of which throttled Kakao Talk voice calling last year - will react to the company’s bid to ‘takeover’ their customers’ devices. Released only yesterday, it already has a 4.1 star rating from 1,300-plus reviews. Importantly, Android holds a dominant 90 percent share of smartphones in the country, according to Statcounter data. Interestingly, there is a ‘snooze’ widget that shuts down sound and vibration alerts from Kakao Talk for up to eight hours, allowing anyone who is busy - at work, school or home - to at least try to disconnect from the service.įacebook Home has struggled its way to 1 million downloads one month after its launch, but KakaoHome appears to have more promise (in Korea at least) where it is installed on more than 90 percent of smartphones.
The page also provides users with the option to respond to messages and open up specific chat rooms directly from the home screen, without having to launch the actual app.
The ‘notifications’ page, which can be pulled out from the left side of the first page of the home screen, displays new KakaoTalk messages, KakaoStory notifications, birthday alerts, KakaoGame news and daily weather updates, all at once. One of the most notable features of KakaoHome is the ‘notifications’ page. The Kakao rep added that Kakao had not been in contact with Google while developing the service, and went on to explain some of its key features: We want to focus on the local market first for the time being, and see how KakaoHome is received by our users in Korea. The Kakao Talk service has 90 million registers users worldwide - of which more than 50 million are on Android phones - but there are no immediate plans to make the software global, a company spokesperson told TNW:
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