Ten Ten became one of the most popular apps less than a year after its launch. the program A French woman became popular because of her gender Walkie talkie Which allows users to send voice messages to contacts close to them even when the phone is locked.
The French app developed by Julie Colmar and Antoine Bache began gaining popularity at the end of May, when it became a surprise hit. This type of smartphone walkie-talkie has gained several million users within a few days, including many teenagers.
The situation even alarmed the French government. For this reason, the founders of the application were received on June 5 at the State Digital Secretariat to present their approach and respond to their concerns, according to the newspaper. Le Monde.
The operation of this application is very basic. Ten Ten allows you to send voice messages directly to your contacts. All you have to do is touch the contact’s profile picture, press your finger down and speak: the interlocutor hears the voice in real time and can respond with the same spontaneity.
The user does not need to be active in the app or even have their phone unlocked for a friend’s voice to suddenly play through their smartphone’s speaker.
To use the application you must download it from Google Apps also Apple Store. The user will be asked to log in or register, either through an email address, Google account, or TikTok account.
These are some of the permissions that the application will request:
- Access the contact list
- Access to approximate location
- Access to the camera
- Microphone access
- Full network access
- Prevent the device from entering standby mode
If you decide to accept the full list of permissions requested by the app, you will be able to operate its main function, which is To convert a cell phone to Walkie talkie.
Moreover, with Ten Ten, it is possible Record voice messages and send them to another contact. However, the most striking aspect is the fact that users can communicate directly via voice messages with their contacts, even if the phone is locked.
Developers
Ten Ten was founded by two Frenchmen, Julie Colmar and Antoine Bache, general director and technical director respectively.
“In my group of close friends we talk every day in different media, but I had the impression that everyone had some kind of friction compared to the exchanges we had in real life,” says Colmar. Le Monde. “I wanted us to be able to communicate as if we were still under the same roof, as roommates: we talk to each other when we’re in the kitchen or the living room, and if the roommates are in their room, We call when the door is closed and wait for a response“, he adds.
That’s how Ten Ten was born, its name “a nod to the Citizens Band’s short-range radio communications system.” Code 10-10 means “Sending completed, waiting”. The company was registered in France in 2021 and its current team consists of six people located in Paris, Bordeaux and Lyon.
Currently, although Ten Ten is gaining users, it does not have an economic model that allows it to generate income.
The team is now studying several ways to develop its application, such as creating, for example, “limited circles of close friends or family,” as the general manager says, a function that would allow sending voice messages to several people at the same time. (Yo)
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