Initially, the Telegram Premium subscription is estimated at 450 rubles. per month for iOS users and 380 rubles. For owners of gadgets running Android. There was a lot of noise on the network about this – on average it costs $ 5 or € 5.5 (about 273 and 316 rubles at the current exchange rate) more expensive than in other countries. Two days later, the subscription cost for Russians decreased by 80 rubles. Now Telegram Premium is available for 300 rubles. – Those who manage to remove it from the old price will receive a discount next month.
how to connect
The easiest and most profitable way to connect to a subscription is to use the @PremiumBot private bot. A subscription is issued in a few seconds, you just need to start the service and enter the payment data. All cards are accepted, including Mir, Visa and MasterCard.
Before paying, you can save data for future automatic renewal of the subscription, but you should not do this, at least you can forget about it and lose money every month.
It is important to note that for Russians using gadgets running Android, the only way to pay for the subscription is bots. iPhone users can pay for Telegram Premium using their Apple ID balance or use the bot. The latter is noticeably cheaper – 300 rubles. against 450 rubles.
What the subscription provides
First of all, premium users will be able to access 1,000 channels instead of 500 to subscribe, be able to pin 10 chats instead of 5 in the list, use 20 short links like t.me/example instead of 10, and many more incremental limits that are unlikely to be useful for most.
For example, it is possible to send files up to 4GB (versus 2GB for “regular” users). This is probably a really useful feature for public administrators who publish unlicensed movies or games, but since many Telegram users mainly send documents or photos to each other, two gigabytes is more than enough for them.
Also in “Premium” it includes accelerated download as the download of photos, videos and other files happens without speed limit. Admittedly, the difference is noticeable: for example, it took 39 seconds to send a 500MB video. The same video was transmitted 10 seconds longer without a subscription. The difference is much more pronounced when downloading files on an account with and without a subscription. However, it is worth noting that the download speed still directly depends on the Internet speed.
One of the most remarkable and long-awaited features in Telegram is the conversion of voice messages to text messages. It is unpleasant that this is presented as an exclusive feature for paid users – it is offered absolutely free in VK and other services. Message decryption functionality is also available in the third-party Telegram client – iMe. It works in the same way and more importantly for free.
Pavel Durov is understandable if this function works better in Telegram than its competitors, but no – they probably use the same algorithm. Punctuation marks may be misplaced like those of the opponents, in the middle of a sentence, words may be capitalized, etc.
Also, Telegram Premium users will not see ad units placed on channels via Telegram. So far, these ads are not intrusive enough to justify purchasing a subscription for such pleasure, but it is possible that in the future the display of ads in the messenger will be much more “aggressive”.
According to the socialbites.ca correspondent, the strangest feature included in the subscription is the unique reactions to posts and stickers.
At this stage, only three special animated stickers with humanoid cherry are available in the sticker section. There’s a little more response – 29 versus 17 standard responses.
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At the same time, the new stickers and the Premium user badge will not be displayed to “not updated” users and those using third-party Telegram clients.
Also, subscribers of the paid version of Telegram can choose the default folder to open when entering the messenger, and also set automatic archiving and hide new chats with strangers. The latter feature can be not only useless, but also harmful – this way you can miss an important message from a person who is not in the contact list.
In addition, premium account holders will be able to stand out among other 700 million Telegram users by getting a star subscriber badge and active video avatars, which are uploaded not only in the profile section, but wherever the Premium user’s communication is displayed. .
Finally, Telegram Premium owners got the opportunity to change the application icon icon – there are six in total. But is it worth paying for such customization? No, because Android users have long had access to all icon sets for various types of apps as well as various themes, called Icon Packs.
Solution
Compared to other subscriptions like Sber Prime, Yandex Plus and others, Telegram Premium seems to lose out as it does not offer a set of ecosystem services but only minor additions within a service. Also Durov’s messenger works perfectly even in a free form.
I want to see more in premium subscription.
For example, increase files not up to 4 GB, but up to 10 GB, or even a separate cloud application. Also, presets for photos sent by filter or mask type, a normally working camera, and the ability to switch modules, for example, from a regular sensor to an ultra-wide one, wouldn’t hurt.
At launch, the purchase of Telegram Premium can be justified by the desire to support the project of Pavel Durov, but not by access to something special and necessary.
Source: Gazeta
