5 Best FREE Android Instant Messengers

Aside from SMS and E-mail, there are several other messaging options in today's smartphone world. Some even combine SMS, E-mail, IM, video call, and more. Here are my 5 Best FREE Android Instant Messengers:

1. Skype - Skype, with more than 600 million users, is one of the most popular messengers for every major desktop and mobile platform. Skype for Android is nicely functional and will let you connect to all your Skype-using friends. It also integrates with your phonebook, allowing you to check the statuses and contact images of your buddies without launching the app itself. You can do free voice and video calls to anyone else on Skype, whether they’re on an Android, iPhone, Mac or PC, as well as IMs to your friends and family, no matter where they are.

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2. Viber - Debuting on iOS, Viber quickly drew more million of users and launched an app for Android as well. Viber allows you to text, call, and send photos and video messages worldwide for free to over 200 million users using 3G or Wifi. Viber is available for Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Phone and many more devices and platforms. On Viber, your phone number is your ID. The app syncs with your mobile contact list, automatically detecting which of your contacts have Viber.

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3. WhatsApp - WhatsApp Messenger is a smartphone messenger available for Android and other smartphones. WhatsApp uses your 3G or WiFi (when available) to message with friends and family. Switch from SMS to WhatsApp to send and receive messages, pictures, audio notes, and video messages. One advantage of WhatsApp over some of its competition is that it sends messages to a server first, so even if the receiving contact isn't online right now, they'll get the message as soon as their phone connects to the Internet (even if you are no longer online).

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4. Google Hangouts - Hangouts is Google’s latest attempt to unify its handful of messaging services (Google Talk, Google+ Messenger, Gmail Messenger). It’s cross-platform and features notification syncing meaning that if you read a message on your phone, it won’t appear as unread on your PC or tablet. The app comes with support for video chatting with multiple people from your Google+ circles. Hangouts also supports different features from GTalk and G+ Messenger such as saving chats in history, setting a status and a mood, a ton of emoji icons as well as going off record for when you don't want to preserve a chat history.

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5. WeChat - WeChat offers free texting, voice messages, and video calls in your pocket. It has more than 300 million users. It's fast, reliable, private, and always on. What separates it from other IMs is that it has a real walkie talkie mode with up to 40 friends. It's available on Android and all other smartphones for free. WeChat works over your phone's existing data plan or any Wi-Fi connection.

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So there you have it! These are my Top 5 Android Instant Messengers that can be downloaded from the Google Play Store for FREE. I hope you like them and find them useful as well.

Til then...

xoxo Nash