Viber app adds stickers, improves notifications and performance

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Viber, a popular instant messaging and calling service with more than 200 million registered users, has updated their Windows Phone 8 app to version 4.0. New and updated features include support for Viber's Sticker Market, a refined chat user experience, enhanced notification support, and improved performance. 

Viber's Sticker Market allows you to download free and paid graphics (stickers), which can then be used in chat conversations. Custom graphics (stickers) have become an increasingly popular feature in instant messaging apps, where they are generally seen as fun way of adding both a colourful and personal element to standard text-based chats. 

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The refinements to Viber's chat experience in the new version also include details like showing when your messages has been seen and whether your contact is online. With the new version Viber also becomes the first app that we are aware of to use a custom notification sound for incoming push notifications (a feature that was added in the GDR3 software update). It is now also possible, via the apps' settings, to hide notification content. Together with improved overall performance (loading speed and push notification deliver), the new features add additional polish to an already slick app.

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This latest update continues Viber's policy of regular updates for its Windows Phone app, which has made Viber one of the best VoIP and messaging based apps available for Microsoft's mobile platform. 

Windows Phone Store description:

With Viber, everyone in the world can connect. Freely. More than 200 million Viber users text, call, and send photo messages worldwide over Wifi or 3G - for free. Viber is available for Android, iPhone, Windows, Mac, Blackberry, Windows 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. 

What’s new in version 4.0:

• Download many free and paid stickers from the Sticker Market
• Get more details like when your message has been seen and when your contacts are online
• Viber notification sounds will be used for incoming push notifications 
• Ability to hide notification content
• Improved resuming and loading speed and push notification delivery

Viber can be downloaded from the Windows Phone Store for free.