LINE: for Android

 LINE is a chat messenger where you can call your contacts and send messages for free, provided you're connected to the Internet. This is almost similar to other former messengers, like WhatsApp, Skype, WeChat, Kakao Talk, etc. Instead of only emoticons, it also has stickers to display what you're feeling at the moment. You can add famous people - like actors/actress, musician - and send them messages. You can send messages to more than one person simultaneously. All you have to do is put them in one group and voila! That's it.

Where I live, every chat messenger is at the peak of its success. Every time I watch the TV, there will definitely be an adverstisement about it. Be it WeChat, Kakao Talk and LINE. WhatsApp and Skype are not very famous these days because there are a lot of competitors. Nevertheless, I still use both of them since my friends use them as well.

I'm the type of person who sticks to old things and throws them away only if I don't use them anymore, so I just use WhatsApp. It's simple and easy. Then my sister (the same one who got me hooked on Burger) asked me to get LINE because "it has stickers!!" (her words, not mine). After some coaxing from her, I decided to install it. Because I have some contacts saved on my phone, they're added automatically. Granted, it's only those who have LINE.

In this free app, there's this button called Timeline. When I first used it, I immediately guessed that it's something like what Facebook has: what we and our friends have posted on LINE and everyone can see. Until now, I have never posted anything there because 1) my Internet is really slow to even load the Timeline and 2) I have no idea what to post because I'm not the type to do so (I'm not as active in Twitter these days). So I haven't tried this feature yet. But I read from the Help Centre that WindowsPhone, BlackBerry and PC versions of LINE can't use it at the moment.

Since we can add a famous person in LINE, we can chat with them. Or rather, send them a message or two because I'm pretty sure they're not online every single minute like some of us. To add them, you can go to More and then Official Accounts. You can search by their names or IDs. At first I didn't want to add anyone except my friends, but I accidentally added a music group. I don't think there's an unfriend button so I still have them as my 'friend'. As far as I know, you can't see their Timeline because I've tried going to their chat screen and I can't find their Home because that's where their Timeline is.

To be honest, LINE is quite complicated. There are a LOT of buttons to click, for example the More button at the top (or at the bottom, depends on your device) and the Settings button inside the More section. Even until now, I'm still confused where to get the coins from. Maybe from playing the games? I have no clue.

If you want to go to the Settings, you have to click the More button first. Usually, you can just click the Options button on your phone, then you can see the Settings. But not in this app. Like I said, it's complicated and it needs time to get used to.

Another thing is I sometimes cannot see new chats sent by my friends. I dunno if it's my slow Internet or there's a glitch somewhere, but it doesn't update to new messages. I have to exit from the app and return there later on. And before I know it, I have a lot of unread messages because I 'didn't receive any' before.

Even until now, I still haven't tried the games. But apparently you have to download it first from your own device's application store. I just found out about it not too long ago. Maybe one day I'll download a game and update this once I find out how it is.

UPDATE (10.06.13):
Finally I've tried some of the games in LINE. Some of the reviews aren't pretty good but I downloaded anyway because I was curious. I played one of them and unfortunately my phone crashed. I couldn't press anything because it was unresponsive. I had to switch it off and immediately uninstalled the games. My phone was getting slower anyway.