Connections Chat is the official app for presence, instant messaging, audio and video chat, and telephony for the Connections platform.

Connections Chat brings to market new and exciting capabilities to give you access to your people networks from the comfort of your smartphone or tablet. Connections Chat follows on Sametime's footsteps to help you accelerate your business processes, improve decision making and, ultimately, help you make the leap to the new way to work. Connections Chat works with your Sametime 9 infrastructure and features built-in integration with Connections Cloud family of offerings.

Key features:
- Rich presence including geographic location
- Presence integration into IBM Traveler
- One-to-one and group chat with offline messaging support
- Chat history
- Softphone
- One-to-one audio and video chat
- Broadcast announcements
- Powerful search capabilities
- Send and receive photos
- Robust push-notification support
- Support for multiple communities
- URL-based, one-click configuration

Connectivity Requirements
IBM Connections Chat for Android supports both the IBM Sametime 8.5.2 IFR 1 Proxy, and the new IBM Sametime 9 Proxy. However, the new voice and video capabilities are only available when connecting to an IBM Sametime 9 Proxy instance.

For more information on IBM Connections Chat, visit http://www.ibm.com/sametime or join us at our Sametime Blog at http://www.ibm.com/sametimeblog.

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