WhatsApp Presented a Web Version of the Application

Popular WhatsApp Messenger launched a web version. This was on his Facebook page said CEO Yang Kum (Jan Koum).

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"Our web version is simply a continuation of the smartphone: the browser will copy all messages and calls from a mobile device. However, all your correspondence will remain on your phone, "- wrote in his blog Qom.

Using the browser, the user is able to correspond to a personal computer WhatsApp same way as in the mobile device. All messages are synchronized - ie correspondence on the PC is displayed in a mobile application, and vice versa. In order to start using the web version of WhatsApp, the user must associate your browser with the application, it is actually necessary to prove service, it is a real smartphone owners who wants to go to the web client WhatsApp.

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To do this, need to update a mobile application WhatsApp, then click on the link web.whatsapp.com on PC and scan QR-code provided by the camera of the mobile device. Owners will be able to use the service on smartphones Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, and BlackBerry phones 10 and Nokia S60. For iOS-users of the Web version of WhatsApp will be available: the developers have not been able to implement a function on the iPhone because of the policies Apple, which has imposed severe restrictions on the use of its platform. As for the desktop, the synchronization does not work in the case of Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari, since these browsers are not able to display the QR-code.

There are some other limitations when synchronizing a mobile application and web version. So, for example, the user will not be able to correspond to the web version of the messenger, if the mobile device with the app WhatsApp will not be connected to the Internet. In addition, if the battery is discharged on the smartphone, then the web version of WhatsApp stops working.

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WhatsApp users negatively evaluated this implementation. The forums subscribers are wondering why all been implemented web version, if it involves the mandatory use of a smartphone. Media at the same time point out that competitive messengers Telegram, Facebook Messenger, Viber and iMessage do not require a network connection of the mobile device to use them on a personal computer. Thus services as well as WhatsApp, have the ability to fully synchronize communications.

Recall, WhatsApp is one of the most popular instant messengers in the world. To date, the number of users of the service of the order of 600 million people. In February last year, was sold to Facebook WhatsApp for $ 16 billion.



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