While Samsung is dominant in thechipand Android smartphone game , it ’s lagged behind in the social networking world . But based on a trademark app filed in the EU , it looks like Samsung could be working on some sort of location - focused messaging app — call “ Uhssup . ”
First blemish by the Dutch outletLet ’s Go Digital , filings with the European Union Intellectual Property Officedescribea mobile app “ for use in societal networking ” that will exhibit and deal exploiter ’s location and allow them to interact with others . It also mentions a provision for “ providing message ground on locating . ”
Facebook ’s WhatsApp added genuine - fourth dimension location tracking as a featurelast October , and Samsung might be gun to challenge that democratic service or to compete with one of Tencent ’s messaging apps . But just because Samsung has filed a hallmark for the name Uhssup does n’t mean that ’s what it will be call in the end , and it does n’t mean for sure that a new social app is even on the way . We ’ve reached out to Samsung for more data and will update this stake if we receive a response .
It ’s easy to forget about messaging services when we talk about social medium . In the US , wetend to focuson the sort of micro - blogging that Facebook and Twitter go , but going by worldwideactive substance abuser , three of the top five social networks are messaging apps . And that ’s kind of corking . in reality sending a message to a specific someone is legitimate societal interaction . What ’s not so nifty is the name Uhssup .
Here ’s the affair , this name does n’t have to go to waste . Samsung can go ahead and make a WhatsApp clon , a location - focused societal app , or whatever — and keep the name simpleton . But the world is hungry for a getting even to the simplicity that was offered by the greatest societal meshwork of all fourth dimension : Yo . Samsung should make a totally separate app , call it Uhssup , and make it so all you could do is get off your friends the content , “ Uhssup . ” Yo was in effect , and everything else is unfit . As bad a name as Uhssup is , I ’ll take it .
[ EUIPOviaAndroid law ]
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