Now, a smartphone application that acts like a girlfriend

Feeling lonely, but dating sites sound like too much work? Well, a new smartphone app, called Honey, It's Me, may be the perfect gift for you.

The app lets a user get video calls from a beautiful virtual girlfriend.

The developers of the app hired a 22-year old South Korean female model named Mina to record more than 100 messages.

Those messages span the day, from "Are you still sleeping?" to "Time for breakfast!" to "Good night, sweet dreams."

If you download the Honey, It's Me app, you can expect to get three or four calls from Mina every day.

Currently, the messages are in Korean, so if you don't speak the language, you're out of lady luck.

"I've developed this application to console people for their loneliness," Discovery News quoted Kim Yoon-Kak, head of South Korea-based Nabix, as saying.

Nabix is working on versions of the Honey, It's Me smart phone app with more messages in English, Chinese and Japanese.