Top up is currently provided via either Apple App Store in-app payment or via Google Wallet. Update: A Tencent spokesperson wished to clarify the following to VentureBeat: and elsewhere.Ĭlearly, WeChat remains a force to be reckoned with as we move into 2016. This means paid services that would have been limited to Chinese credit card holders are now being offered up to users in the U.S. Tencent rolled out an update to WeChat in October that enabled nine-person video calling, but it now appears to be challenging services like Skype in a much bigger way, as it pushes out of China in earnest.Īs I noted in November, Tencent is opening up its mobile payments service to overseas transactions.
Every user can redeem $1 in credit when they start with the service, and Tencent says it’s also giving away 100 minutes of free calls to “most numbers around the globe.” WeChat Out now appears as a new option in the expandable menu when users click the ‘+’ symbol at the top right of the home screen.
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