WhatsApp calling going live for iPhone

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There has been an update for WhatsApp for iOS, one of the new features is voice calling being added (which has been live for Android for weeks already).

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Checking WhatsApp on my iPhone this evening I notice that I now have a telephone icon present to make WhatsApp calls and a quick test shows it is now working.
 
brilliant, now i can call my brother in spain instead of texting
 
out of interest will this work on an iPad over wi-fi? or is it exclusive to iPhone?
 
Ballyman said:
Could you not have done that already with Hangouts or Viber?
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WhatsApp is the predominant message app, I would think WhatsApp users outnumber Hangouts and Viber users by quite some factor. Even non-techie people will have WhatsApp installed but not the others.

I tried Viber last year, I just couldn't persuade enough people to use it to make it worthwhile.

mjScall said:
out of interest will this work on an iPad over wi-fi? or is it exclusive to iPhone?
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WhatsApp will only work with a phone device unfortunately.
 
Dave1 said:
WhatsApp is the predominant message app
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Which is strange really when you think the other two have had messaging, SMS and voice/video calling for a long long time. The power of marketing I suppose.
 
Dave1 said:
Even non-techie people will have WhatsApp installed but not the others.
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As far as I know, Android Phones come with Hangouts pre-installed. Or at least the Nexus range do.
 
Ballyman said:
As far as I know, Android Phones come with Hangouts pre-installed. Or at least the Nexus range do.
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They do, but for some reason not many people seem to use it, there is even a Hangouts app for iOS.

As you said, the power of marketing.
 
gadgeteer said:
I think Whatsapp calling for Android has been working for some time. At least I think so. My geeky mate with Android phones was crowing about it last month
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As I mentioned in post 1 ;), it's been available on Android for around 3 weeks now.
 
I done test with this and although it works - there is a little lag (about 1-2 sec) between conversations - I guess it all depends on the how good the signal is.
 
It's just voice over ip, hardly new technology.
Surprised it has taken them this long to bring it in.
 
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