Microsoft last week announced a new app – WindUp for Windows phone users. WindUp allows users share temporary messages i.e Videos, texts, video etc to one another for a limited time. Facebook also has an app dubbed Slingshot, a near snapchat competitor.
Since Snapchat is not officially availabe on the company’s WP phone users, the Company is offering an equivalent app. The app apparently has a prank like name; developers claim is a notion of “Winding Up” friend or loved ones as they scramble to see the message before time runs out.
WindUp has been set with a lot of permissions, the app requires certain conditions before it could work on a device. Some of it includes –
- • contacts
• Phone identity
• Video and still capture
• Music library
• Media playback
• Microphone
• Data services
• Push notification service
• Movement and directional sensor
• Web browser component
• Screen sizes – HD 720p (720 x 1280), WVGA (480 x 800), WXGA (768 x 1280)
WindUp is exclusively available for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 8.1 users only and is available on Windows Phone Store; interested users can download through the link below.
Download
• WindUp Download
Many users would easily make the switch to WindUp had there been an iOS or Android version as Snapchat has been in the news for different reason – first the app exposed over 5 million accounts and another FTC ruling that the company has been deceiving users; but It is very unlikely this app would be expanded to other platforms.
