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Swapnote Messaging App Coming To Nintendo 3DS In December

By Ishaan . October 21, 2011 . 10:03am

Swapnote Messaging App Coming To Nintendo 3DS In December

Come December, you’ll be able to send messages your other 3DS-owning friends via a new app. Nintendo are calling this Swapnote, which sounds a little reminiscent of Flipnote Studio (right) on Nintendo DSiWare.

 

Swapnote will let you send 3D messages over both StreetPass and online. You’ll be able to hand-write messages, and also include pictures and recorded sounds. When it launches, Swapnote will be a free app. In the U.K., it will be called Nintendo Letter Box.

 

Something to note: Since Swapnote is a separate app, don’t expect to be able to fire it up in the middle of another game to message your buddies. That capability still doesn’t exist within the 3DS.


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  • https://twitter.com/#!/SplashdownTiger STiger

    3DS can’t multitask. Also, I guess this is PictoChat 2.0?

    • http://www.siliconera.com Ishaan

      It can multitask, but only between regular games and the system-level apps on the top row of the main menu (the Internet browser and so on). You can’t have two regular apps/games running at the same time.

    • James Beatty

      I’m pretty sure it can multitask. It can’t do a lot at once, but it can multitask

  • Go2hell66

    better than nothing, i’ll take it!

  • http://www.youtube.com/kfd056 kfd056

    I know you cant multi task with regular apps(only apps you can mulit task with are Internet Browser, Friend List,Notification tab, game notes) but cant they just have a system update or something to allow this specific app to do multi tasking. Anyway this app is going to be awesome. Finally I can tell ppl to come and play doa dimensions online with me on my friends list.

  • http://tristsantithesis.tumblr.com/ Tsunayoshi Sawada

    One step forward, yet two steps backwards. I guess Im just glad we can send messages finally. This seems like what Ping Pals should have been. 

  • http://zerodestinypro.blogspot.com/ Zero_Destiny

    Wow I really l liked Flip notes even though I totally sucked at it. lol All my videos looked like trash. XD  But it was always so much fun playing around on it none the less. Anyways I find this interesting. It would be great if people can share their work. Some people’s Flip notes look so amazing. I’d like to be able to see more awesome flip notes.

  • aoihana

    Hey, it’s free and it has some sort of messaging. I’m happy. ^_^

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CA2UGKXZ4J5VHTG2FHL4OHKSXA Jaden

    OMG! Thank you! At least SOME sort of messaging for the 3DS! My prayers must have been answered, I got no complaints regardless of the fact you can’t use it during gameplay, but it’s one step in  a good directions.^_^

  • http://twitter.com/VXLbeast VXLbeast

    Awesome, that’s pretty great in my book.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jiggy-Pepper/100000804352621 Jiggy Pepper

    Sweet, now I can finally send my friends dirty drawi….err I mean, send them messages! Yes….messages….>.>

  • Joanna

    So glad to see online support as that would be the only way I could use it. ^__^

  • theworldofnoboundries

    OMGGG!!! It seems picture of little elephant will all that i get lol.

    Well joking a side, this is free so it a “very good” news for cheapskate like me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000939885687 Cody Brown

    The description is right about SwapNote but that picture isn’t swapnote thats flipnote studio from the DSi :P

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