WhatsApp
updated its Windows Phone app on Tuesday adding the voice calling feature that
was rolled out to all Android, BlackBerry, and iOS users' months ago. With the
addition of voice calling, the WhatsApp Windows Phone app now allows voice
calls over mobile data or Wi-Fi - also called VoIP or voice over Internet
protocol.
The WhatsApp
Windows Phone app update (version 2.12.60.0) also brings new features such as sending
audio files (which is currently available on Windows Phone 8.1) apart from the
VoIP-based voice calling feature. The updated WhatsApp app for Windows Phone is
now available to download.
The Windows
Phone store listing notes that WhatsApp Calling is available on Windows Phone 8
and above. It also adds that users cannot access 911 and other emergency
service numbers through WhatsApp Calling.
The voice calling feature is now
available for all major platforms, namely Android, iOS, BlackBerry 10, and
Windows Phone. Android was the first platform to receive the WhatsApp
voice-calling feature in March followed by iOS and BlackBerry in April.
Windows
Phone was due to receive the WhatsApp voice calling feature with the company
back in April revealing the upcoming addition via a support team email to a
user. The team had suggested that the feature was "still in the
works" for the platform, and that it could not provide an exact time-frame
for the release.
WhatsApp has
already become the most widely used instant messaging app and back in April
crossed 800 million monthly active users, according to WhatsApp's CEO and
co-founder Jan Koum.
In other
news, WhatsApp for Android is set to receive a new feature that will allow
users to do an app-wide search, which will include all the chats. According to
Android Police, the new feature was introduced in version 2.12.134, which had
been made available via the company's own site. It's worth noting that the
current WhatsApp app for Android available from Google Play is version
2.12.124. The new feature will let users search for specific terms in entire
chat conversation which until now only showed the name of the WhatsApp
contacts.
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