chopi is a mini-blog service that lets subscribers communicate with friends, family members and others via their mobile device. Join the chopi community for access to closed portal pages, private messaging and a search engine to view other users' comments. The chopi mini-blog service is optimized for the mobile device so that posting and receiving chopi messages may prove to be the easiest way to keep in touch with your people.
chopi automatically analyses a subscriber's friend list and recommends other subscribers with similar tastes. This feature lets subscribers make new friends based on a relevance score, or just find others who are looking to communicate.
This feature lets subscribers create social networks with pre-approved subscribers so they can safely communicate within these private communication boundaries. Private networks could include specific friends, corporate associates and family.
One-to-one communication is easy and intuitive with the chopi service. Automatic notifications are delivered to a subscriber's mobile phone when they receive a message.
Subscribers can vote on other subscribers’ mini-blogs, encouraging free interaction and feedback within the chopi community.
The chopi service allows subscribers to add and manage their own profile description. This feature lets each subscriber create their own unique, personalized profile page.
To keep the chopi community dynamic and to encourage usage, mini-blogs posted to the open channel will expire after a certain period.
The chopi mini-blog service is aimed at heavy mobile data users in their 20s and 30s. Features such as 'enliven communication' help make chat more casual. As well as browsing, mobile messaging with the device's camera is used as a communication channel. The chopi service also provides users a personal profile service with rich personalization and customization capabilities.
The chopi mini-blog service is currently available in Japan only. The service is supported on the following terminals: DoCoMo (FOMA terminal), au (WIN terminal) and Softbank (3G terminal). The service itself is free of charge, but standard data usage rates apply.