To communicate using mobile phones, it is useless to pay by SMS and even for phone calls, much better to use VOIP telephony applications such as Skype or to take advantage of Whatsapp or Facebook Messenger calls, also excellent for exchanging text messages and free audio messages, always using the internet connection. A third alternative, which is catching on, is to use voice messages and use the cell phone like a Walkie Talkie . It is practically like using a free answering machine in which to record voice messages, with the additional possibility of exchanging messages as you would with a walkie talkie, speaking and receiving answers in succession, saying the word Passo .
The best and most popular walkie talkie (PPT) applications available for Android and iPhone are:
1) The most popular is Voxer, an app for Android and iPhone designed to be a kind of push-to-talk walkie talkie (PTT) that works not on radio frequencies, but via internet connection, in Wifi or 3G and 4G. Voxer offers a text messaging service similar to WhatsApp, with the difference that it can also send and receive voice messages. Voxer is free and after installation asks for a registration with username and password. The best thing to do, however, is to connect via Facebook account because, in this way, you immediately get in touch with other friends who use the app and immediately start exchanging voice messages. By giving Voxer access to the address book, it checks whether there are other friends who use the application and who they can chat with by voice. You can send an invitation to others. To send a voice message to a friend, you have to start a conversation and tap the button at the bottom, hold it down, talk and release the pressure when you finish talking. Among the contacts there is one called Walkie which is used to make tests, but above all to record vocal reminders to listen to whenever you want.
2) The second application is Zello, which can be downloaded for free for Android and iPhone .
It transforms the mobile phone like a real Walkie Talkie, to speak by voice for free with friends, using the wifi network. Also Zello looks in the address book who of contacts already uses the application and allows to send invitations. To exchange messages, just press the big button in the center and speak.
When you release the button, you can wait for the answer, always by voice. Whenever you receive a message, you are notified on your mobile phone. Messages can also be listened to later by scrolling through the history of the voice conversation. An additional function of Zello is the presence of groups in which it is possible to discuss or chat verbally with strangers.
Di Zello also has a program for the Windows PC, to send voice messages to friends using the computer.
3) HeyTell is very similar to the others, to send and receive voice messages using the phone as a PPT walkie talkie, which uses the internet connection. It is a cross-platform voice messaging service with push-to-talk functionality like a walkie-talkie. The app also includes a voice changer, message notifications, very low data usage and a social system with a list of friends.
4) Then there are the Intercom apps, which allow you to speak by voice without a phone such as Two Way and WalkieTooth, which support Bluetooth and wifi.
5) Whatsapp has voice messages .
To start recording, simply touch and hold the microphone button.
The voice message is sent automatically and immediately to the contact once the button is released and you can talk like that using your mobile phone like a Walkie Talkie.
6) Facebook Messenger allows you to send voice messages recorded by voice to Facebook friends from iPhone and Android.
7) Viber the app for calling and texting also has the Push To Talk function.
8) In addition to these two are also famous Talkbox Messenger, mentioned in the post on how to send voice messages from mobile.
