Snapchat releases Micro app for Samsung Galaxy Gear

Snapchat has news. The self-destructing message sending application is now seeing a whopping 350 million snaps being shared daily. The app makers have also announced a new version of the service called Snapchat Micros, especially designed for the Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch.

Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel announced in an interview during the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco that 350 million snaps were being shared per day now, a huge increase from 200 million snaps in June. The snaps could either be a photo or a video message sent across to a friend. The snaps are visible to the receiver only for a few seconds on their iOS or Android devices before disappearing completely.

For the Galaxy Gear (Image credit: TechCrunch)

Spiegel went on to announce a special Snapchat app called Snapchat Micro for users who will be purchasing the Samsung Galaxy smartwatch. The application will let users take advantage of the camera placed on the wrist-belt of the Galaxy Gear to send images and videos to friends and will be one of 70 applications initially available for the smartwatch.

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Interestingly, the Galaxy Gear allows for 10-second long videos shot at 720fps, the exact duration that Snapchat allows for users to send across. Sounds like a match made in heaven. You can do pretty much the same thing on Snapchat Micro that you can on Snapchat. You can shoot videos or photos, decide the time it is supposed to be visible for and send it to your friends. In case you feel the need of wanting to draw or caption your image, the snap will automatically open itself up on your Samsung Galaxy Note 3.

Our team is constantly looking at ways to reduce the time between our experience of a moment and our ability to share it,” said Spiegel. “The Snapchat Micro app is an experiment we’re really excited about.”

The application has had a very controversial past. Since it’s used widely across teenagers who employ it to send explicit images and sexts to each other, Snapchat has always been in the eye of controversy for privacy. Over the past year or so, white-hats have figured out ways to manipulate the application to save images supposedly destroyed. Despite this, there’s a much more sly, more mobile way of clicking snaps with the Samsung Galaxy Gear.