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First Indian Messenger Hike Releases Version 3.5 for Windows Phone Users

In this tech-savvy world, everyone is glued to their mobile phones for a wide variety of reasons. The messaging platforms to ease out connectivity between users has further shortened the world on a general basis. One such messenger, Hike being developed in India has now been officially launched for Windows Phone 8.1 with a more advanced and upgraded features that are for sure going to meet the customer's requirements on all factors.

The new version 3.5 brings with itself the most popular and much wanted features like new user interface and file sharing, groups and privacy controls. It also includes ten new chat themes and also provides the ability for the users to share file and attachments that are up to 100MB. With the help of Hike 3.5, the user will be able to share files with a broad range of formats which includes PDF, ZIP and Microsoft Office. If you consider it a wow, sorry to disappoint, it is yet to come. The messenger has also given its users the ability to create groups with the maximum of 500 members to share and interact with each other.

In words of Kavin Bharti Mittal, CEO and founder of Hike messenger, Windows is our 2nd largest platform by users and they have been eagerly waiting for this update, which is the biggest we have ever released for Windows, and we are excited to finally get it in their hands.

Another important update which users might find interesting is the fact that unlike its previous versions, Hike now allows its users to have multiple administrators for each group with no limit henceforth. On the privacy front, users can now hide those chats which they wish to keep as private from the prying eyes giving them password protection if they find it necessary. This ability allows the users to have full control over the chat sessions, thereby allowing them to hide content from the push notification.

Just in case, if someone gets offline and the user wants to have a chat, he/she can now use the new SMS feature that allows the user to send a normal SMS without incurring any cost on their part. It also enables its users to express their emotions and opinions using a wide variety of stickers that gets regular updates depending upon the festival. It also comes equipped with the ability to deliver SMS to those users who aren't on Hike.

According to official sources, the new black theme that can be activated from the Settings option will not cause any eye strain and is battery friendly and that the user will be able to send multiple messages in the form of pictures, videos and text to more than one friend. In addition to Windows Phone, Hike is also available on Android, iOS and few limited versions of Blackberry.